Online service reliability is crucial in the digital age. Even robust systems can face unexpected outages, affecting various platforms. Let’s explore the insights!

Are there any major outages that you remember?

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    9 days ago

    No, but this is why we think centralising the operations of the internet isn’t a good idea. The web was meant to be decentralised and federated, yet it has become centralised and has mostly a few walled gardens.

    The fediverse and matrix etc may not be perfect, but technically they are some of the better ideas in terms of ensuring if one server or even quite a few servers go down the whole of a network/service doesn’t.