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Not all websites are for shitposting. I can’t talk to my clients for whom I am on call because Signal is down. I also can’t communicate with my immediate family. There are tons of systems positively critical to society downstream from these services.

Some can tolerate downtime. Many can’t.



You could give them a Phone call, you know. Pretty reliable technology.


No, actually, I can’t. My phone doesn’t have a phone number and can’t make calls.


Also: do you think the telephone network has no oncall engineers?




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