Post #1890061
2025-10-20 08:00 UTC
Replies (22)
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Damn you amazon! https://media.tenor.com/2IGGgjH_6LQAAAAC/jeff-bezos-laugh-com-look-tiny.gif
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@IPEdmonton@mstdn.ca 2025-10-20 08:03
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world Duolingo is also down.
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@fedithom@social.saarland 2025-10-20 08:07
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world Absolutely no offense meant, but maybe relying on Amazon (who are sort of antithetical to everything Signal stands for) for anything isn't the greatest of ideas?
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@lv_426_survivor@mastodon.social 2025-10-20 08:08
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world Thanks for the info. That was my guess when I couldn’t send a message to myself 😅 Take care all you guys!
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@http_error_418@hachyderm.io 2025-10-20 08:09
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world glad I saw this immediately after noticing that a message wouldn't send... saved me lots of time figuring out what was going on!
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@szkodnix@sk.szkod.ovh 2025-10-20 08:09
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world That's fine, we understand! We're waiting patiently!
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@miranda_blue@eldritch.cafe 2025-10-20 08:12
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world good luck and thanks for all the friggin' good work!
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@xengi@chaos.social 2025-10-20 08:17
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world probably a good idea to not depend on public cloud providers. Especially in the current political climate but also for simple technical reasons.
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@sotolf@polymaths.social 2025-10-20 08:19
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world Yeah, that strategy of only having servers in the US really paying off isn't it..
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@technodev@mastodon.social 2025-10-20 08:22
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world Why is the infra relied on AWS? Having different providers and different geographical locations will make it redundant and resilient to these issues.
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@scy@chaos.social 2025-10-20 08:27
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world Thanks for letting us know, but I do wonder whether that kind of information should be posted to @signalapp@mastodon.world and not on its president's personal account.
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Allow for privately hosted backup servers like @44393ff8ca21edda8e7e510a2d8aef91e6b71ff38969a69b356215bfb42bac19@mostr.pub does
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@dujmovivo@gruene.social 2025-10-20 08:32
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world thanks for posting. Related: why is this not showing on: https://status.signal.org i do not want to find this first thing on Social Media, also why is not @signalapp@mastodon.world posting this as well?
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@katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org 2025-10-20 08:41
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world [Update: the status page is now saying »❌ Signal is experiencing technical difficulties. We are working hard to restore service as quickly as possible.«] Thank you for the notification. I'd be interested in why https://status.signal.org is still silent on this, because this is where I first checked this morning. While I appreciate it you're taking responsibility, it shouldn't be the job of the president to announce issues like this.
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@RubenWA@social.vivaldi.net 2025-10-20 08:54
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world Maybe Signal is too dependent on Amazon. Why put all your eggs in one basket? You might wanna use some European Web Services in case something like this happens.
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@agitatra@berlin.social 2025-10-20 09:00
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world In Europe I recommend "Hetzner".
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@g0hl1n@fosstodon.org 2025-10-20 09:01
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world Thanks for your efforts! Keep up the great work 👏 👍 Nonetheless announcing this shouldn't be your job IMHO... it should be handled via https://status.signal.org/ and @signalapp@mastodon.world . 🤔
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@nemo@mas.to 2025-10-20 09:01
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world Thank you Ma'am 😁 💚 🙏
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@wurzelmann@mastodon.wurzelmann.at 2025-10-20 09:03
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world thanks for the update! It is unfortunate that https://status.signal.org/ still shows no problems here...
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net 2025-10-20 09:05
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world "Some" people is quite the understatement ... I hope your admins can switch us all over to another AWS region so we can use Signal again. (Yes, I am one of the "some" people affected and yes, it is causing real problems for me)
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@ebauche@mastodon.social 2025-10-20 09:13
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world I was expecting https://status.signal.org/ to show some sort of indication of there being an issue but it just says everything is working. It was my first port of call when I saw messages weren't sending for me. Downdetector seems to provide a more realistic picture.
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@ihor@social.noleron.com 2025-10-20 09:15
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world Maybe after this outage, it would be better to create a mirror for Signal servers? So that if AWS has another issue, Signal could keep working — the messenger is convenient and great, but relying on a single provider is a bad idea…