Facebook going down meant more than just a social network being unavailable

Re:Facebook going down meant more than just a social network... by worldsayshi on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @02:18AM (#28756043)

> To wit, the global monopolist who benefited the most from the network-effect lock-in used to be IBM. Then it was Microsoft. Now it's Facebook. In time, this too will change.

Why does there have to be a global monopolist though? I wonder if we ever will end up in that decentralised dream.

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Re:Facebook going down meant more than just a social network... by jraby3 on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @02:22AM (#28756071)

The outage yesterday reminded me of how many other services do the exact same thing. The only app I use by FB is WhatsApp and it wasn’t too bad using signal, FaceTime and sms to communicate.

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Re:Facebook going down meant more than just a social network... by timeon on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:49AM (#28756539)

Unfortunately it seems to me that it is more convenient for majority of people to be served by monopolies.

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