If your alarm clock needs an internet connection then you need an old alarm clock.
this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2025
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You can get very fancy new alarm clocks that don't need internet, skill issue. I'm convinced consumer grade IoT tech is some kind of irrational boomer exhibitionism thing
If I host my own smart home with zigbee devices, does that still count as consumer IoT tech? The zigbee devices themselves are the typical philips hue, ikea tradfi, etc. devices
It is sort of depressing how concentrated or centralized the internet has gotten.
Onlyfans is also affected
That's the wake-up call; we need a fedi alternative!
SingularTurbine
Pleasure or Joy Vine
So like PleasureVine or JoyVine
Fediverse priority #1: Be able to talk to a paid actor pretending to be a model* Priority #2: Spend money to see the nudes they send in DMs
*for major creators, I’m sure many minor/independent ones are genuine
Sex workers already exist on fedi and a lot of them are genuine.
Nice! I have seen some people who make and sell content on Mastodon— I appreciate those who do that, imo they are able to help fill a hole or just benefit the lives of people who are seeking that content or services/interactions. I hope they’re able to do it safely, seeing as how they probably have to move off-platform for many things, including payment… and with how payment processors treat any adult related transactions…
Unfortunately, that also means that there’s probably not a direct fedi alternative for OF— in my experience (more info below) and from my research, it’s pretty much the default for large creators to rely on paid actors impersonating them for messaging and interacting. Also OF takes care of the payment details, which idk of any fedi platforms doing.
Anecdote: I got lured into an OF a while ago on a local meetup/dating/rp discord servers. I thought I was smarter than that, but weeks of talking and trusting someone, them slowly eroding boundaries and using emotional manipulation… it’s really powerful, unfortunately.
Anyways that OF page was 100% designed to milk people. A “$3 first month” followed by a recurring “$45” regular price if you don’t cancel should’ve been a red flag. And only softcore posts once you subscribe, but as you talk to the actor in messages, they send more intimate images, but with a paywall. They wouldn’t talk to me anymore if I didn’t pay. It starts at $10, but the next was $30. That’s when I refused. It hurt though, I felt like I knew the person. The whole time they’re pushing this “if you don’t buy it you don’t love me, you don’t want to support me, omg I need grocery money” idea.
I know not all creators use it for that. But the platform certainly enables it with its design and features. I just think a massive portion of the adult industry is founded on exploitation, unfortunately.
Just be a server admin and therefore see every local users DMs!
I feel like the internet should probably be hosted in as many different servers and physical locations as possible. It seems alarming that these things happen as often as they do
It was only the one AWS region that went down, us-east-1. Unfortunately that's the big kahuna. But they've got regions and availability zones around the globe. The services that went down due to the outage need to get some cross-region redundancy happening, but that's the kind of thing that's never a priority until the moment you need it.
Even the places that did have redundancy - didn't have actually tested failovers.
Source: working at a place hosted in multiple locations. Didn't mean shit. Somebody, if not many somebody's, is definitely getting fired when the smoke clears.
Signal is down too.
Works (again?) for me.
Confirmed. Should be back up now
It seems odd that it’s all on one aws server cluster. Wouldn’t they all automatically activate their backup server on another instance?
it's us-east-1 that's down, which is the one region with all the AWS services that aren't easy to replicate, like DynamoDB, a major database service used by so so many companies out there. Its an all eggs in one basket kind of scenario. If it was any other region, we'd be fine.
cross-region failovers are a thing, but they're expensive to maintain so not everyone does it. I am kinda surprised one region failure had this much impact though
If fortnite goes down, I laugh.
I like how Fortnite is part of this.