Meredith WhittakerOct 20
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
Show threadfedithomOct 20

@Mer__edith

Absolutely no offense meant, but maybe relying on Amazon (who are sort of antithetical to everything Signal stands for) for anything isn't the greatest of ideas?

Show threadyawnboxOct 20

@fedithom

Open Whisper Systems has a long history of being anti-decentralization

@Mer__edith

Show threadXenGi ✅Oct 20
@yawnbox @fedithom @Mer__edith Why does signal then depend on a single centralized cloud provider?
Show threadMeredith WhittakerOct 20
@xengi @yawnbox @fedithom we don't.
Show threadroot42Oct 20
@Mer__edith @xengi @yawnbox @fedithom better question would be: why does AWS east 1 outage affect EU Signal users…?
Show threadMoritz Poldrack 
@root42 @Mer__edith @xengi @yawnbox @fedithom us-east-1 is the original AWS location and some "sources of truth" are there (IAM for example)
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