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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by throwaway78981 on Monday October 04, 2021 @12:37PM (#28749117)
Signal is welcoming everyone:

https://nitter.mailstation.de/signalapp/status/1445062426739...

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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by MajorSauce on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:30PM (#28751014)
Still an American centralized platform. Federated Matrix is the way to go!
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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by maxxxxxx on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:14PM (#28749624)
Ironically, I cannot send messages on Signal right now. They can’t handle the extra load?
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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by coolspot on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:13PM (#28750790)
Signal replicates each message to NSA and FB, so when one is down, Signal’s backend fails with a timeout error.
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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by lavp on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:32PM (#28751702)
Source?
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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by kitkat_new on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:23PM (#28749754)
to also face a failure in the single point of failure - system?
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