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[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 78 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can we make it permanent, please?

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

The world is healing

[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 52 points 2 weeks ago

Finally some good news

[–] Concave1142@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

And nothing of value was lost.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago

Nature is healing. Thank you Iran.

[–] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago
[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So Github and facebook went down today. Interesting!

AWS was having issues earlier too. Centralized servers are having some issues more and more these days.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago

AWS was recently "having issues" due to the Iran situation


same thing I wonder?

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago

Oh no.

Well, anyway...

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

Can we leave it down this time?

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

if you want a general strike the internet needs to go away frist.

[–] _deleted_@aussie.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago
[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 6 points 2 weeks ago

lol

lmao even

[–] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Looks like it's back. 🥲

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

Hope it stays down

[–] bonenode@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

So the data was stored on AWS Dubai/Iran or whatever was bombed earlier. Sorry, too much happening, cannot keep track of all these locations.