X.com Is Down

[Kkoala]

Good time to consider and try out alternatives!

Such as Bluesky

[__rito__]

Is Bluesky good enough and dense enough if I block all political keywords? X is good enough for me after muting all political keywords.

There was a link recently to a site that lists all top links on Bluesky and overwhelmingly all were about US politics.

[kawfey]

or mastodon. or threads. or <anme your platform here>... I hate that the short-text social media world got so fragmented. Twitter was the one place i could go to say hi to my neighbors, complain to a company and get recompense, grow my hobbies with friends, ask almost any restaurant "are you open on $holiday?" and just watch the whole world breathe.

[ta1243]

And nothing of value was lost

[a12k]

Well where else am I supposed to socialize with fellow cybertruck owners?

[ta1243]

Looks like twitter is blocking isitdownrightnow based on the "this is down for 80 days"

[ohgr]

What microservice did Musk delete this time?

[janmo]

Probably fired the DDOS protection team

[josefritzishere]

Dark Storm has taken credit... at least that's what Newsweek says. https://www.newsweek.com/x-twitter-outage-dark-storm-live-up...

[underseacables]

Wow. They really did a number. Really destroyed everything. It took X like 30 minutes! to restore function.

[k2_dev]

Does anyone know yet, if this was really a cyberattack? And if so, how the hackers were able to pull this off? Was it a DDOS-Attack?

[Havoc]

I guess they did need that datacenter that musk decided to DIY remove after all

[lokimedes]

Government infrastructure under attack, Musk is demanding nuclear retaliation as we speak.

(Misinformation disclaimer :: Joke)

[postepowanieadm]

I'm not sure if you are joking or serious. Interesting times.

[Clubber]

Pavlov rang his bell to the comment section. :)

[numpad0]

this is minimum 6th dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322115

[PKop]

"The site has been unreachable for more than 80 days."

[xkbarkar]

Why are you downvoted? It is what the site says. What the hell has happened to HN?

Its not even a controversial comment. Da hell?

[stefcoetzee]

"There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against .

We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved."

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899149509407473825

[kvetching]

It is suffering from DDOS attack. People are already politicizing it trying to blame Iran.

[jmondi]

Definitely has nothing to do with axing the staff