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Re:When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites ... by sandworm101 on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:56AM (#28796776)
>> when one of the top 3 most-visited-domains in the world goes down

Which is in itself a major news story. Before talking about facebook v. other new sites we mush take account of the greater number of people looking for news content regardless of platform. The increase might more people looking for news rather than people having to go elsewhere than facebook.

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Re:When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites ... by BoxOfRain on Friday October 08, 2021 @06:14AM (#28797554)
I agree, HN itself slowed to a crawl and eventually went down temporarily for me but I’d bet one of my toes that it’s because half the devs, sysadmins etc of the world were trying to find out what was going on rather than people no longer distracted by Facebook looking for something else to do.
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