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Yeah, it's down. Musk should stop working remotely and get back to the office to fix it ASAP!

He admitted today he is having "difficulties" running his businesses.

What are X/twitter alternatives ? I left twitter after recent Musk pro Russian statements.

I switched to Bluesky a few months ago and very happy with that decision

Bluesky bsky.app

Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon...

Mastodon (open/distributed/Wild West) and Bluesky (commercial/probably ending up like X at some point).

Mastodon and Bluesky are the main ones as far as I'm aware

Bluesky is where the sane people seem to have gone.. there was a split between that and threads, but threads is dying off.

I don't think Threads is dying, I believe Meta's numbers are actually quite good.

But the content pushed by its engagement algorithm makes the experience pretty far from what I'd expect from a serious Twitter alternative, even after several apparent tweaks. It could be a good platform for brands and celebrities though.

Yeah Threads feels like a flipped house; pretty finishes and big open concept rooms that draw you in before you can realize its all a facade and full of engagement bait

Bluesky is not bad if you're interested in tech and science.

Those are the only two things I really wanted in a twitter replacement so I’ve been happy with it

Non-US govt and municipals are moving to bluesky

BlueSky. Less algorithmic boosting and it allows you to curate your feed.

It's VC funded - so it remains to be seen how it evolves

Wdym with "curate your feed"? See only posts of people your follow? That's always been possible with Twitter.

You have control over what is suggested by the algo, and can make several different feeds - in addition to just a feed of your follows. Rather than whatever "For You" is doing on Twitter these days.

So exactly like twitter.

No; Twitter doesn't have a "bring your own algorithm" option. https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds

I don't believe Twitter has the ability to do multiple algorithmically driven feeds but its been a while since I used it. I think Twitter "lists" might be the closest thing to it but thats just different follows. My understanding was that "For You" has gone through a number of changes, most of them for the worst, in the last year or so. Bluesky also has some interesting personal moderation filters - for instance I can subscribe to published block lists, maintained by other users.

Yup. There's the basic chronological feed. There's a Discover and Popular with Friends feed. But, you can create your own feeds and/or subscribe to feeds that other people have created. You can have feeds for a specific topic or subculture. They can be manually curated or algorithmically; the idea is that can you subscribe to your own recommendation algorithm. They can be as simple or as complex as you'd like. Plus, you typically know who created a feed. Let's say you want to hear about AI news. There could be a curated AI, assuming someone cares about to garden it.

>There's the basic chronological feed

twitter has that

>There's a Discover

twitter has that

>you can create your own feeds and/or subscribe to feeds that other people have created

twitter has that

Twitter lets you ingest their firehose and engineer your own algorithms on top of that and lets other people subscribe to those? Cool. Show me.

Blueksy also has unique labelers and moderation lists. My favorite is the politician donor labeler.

Not after Twitter started forcing you to see accounts you don't follow.

It doesn't.

It absolutely has, in my experience. Bluesky also seems to be less heavy-handed with account bans.

I've been happy on BlueSky so far. It seems to be picking up a good variety of people, including journalists, and some interests of mine like cycling.

I'm crossing my fingers but history seems to be against them. You have to pay the piper at some point.

Your options are:

West Coast Liberal → https://bsky.app/

Bundesrepublik KDE → https://joinmastodon.org/

"I bet Mark Zuckerberg won't get any weirder" → https://www.threads.net/

I appreciate the informal decision tree.

Hey now there are plenty of east coast liberals on Bluesky too

For me it began when he started suspending journalists or anyone who criticized him (so much for pro-free speech), lying about almost everything and still every day. He also started siding with racist commenters and white supremacists. And if that wasn't enough, the whole salute thing was disgusting and absolutely irresponsible. So yeah his pro Russian statements don't surprise me at all.

Mastodon is the real alternative, but many people seem to be converging at bluesky. Which is fundamentally not much better.

One of my first jobs was working at a fast food place, and my first night on the job, I was taking the trash out, and the thing tipped over, spilling it all over the parking lot, and I just said "fuck this" and went home and never came back. If I worked at Twitter right now, I'd be thinking about doing something like that again.

Did your co-workers have to clean it up?

I don’t think you are the hero in this story. Pretty terrible behavior.

His claim is that it's a DDOS attack.

Not my area of engineering, so forgive me, but: is an external DDOS a plausible threat for competently engineered public service in 2025? I kind of got the impression those were solved problems in practice?

If you have enough resources, you can definitely degrade the service.

This was posted just 3 hours ago:

> There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X.

> We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.

> Tracing …

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899149509407473825

https://www.wired.com/story/x-ddos-attack-march-2025/

Seems like they forgot to put some services behind Cloudflare. CTO should be fired then. Oh, wait.

Better link for tracking: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

It works fine for me, both twitter.com (which redirects to x.com) and x.com

Why does HN sometimes de-duplicate submissions, but not others? This other submission is the exact same link, but 3 minutes earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322397

Is there any source for this being an attack other than Elon's tweet. I hope reporters aren't just taking his word for this given all of his past lies.

It's giving me problems and has been very inconsistent for about 90 minutes to 2 hours at this point. I got a partial refresh of my feed, but a lot is not working. The Grok AI appears down as well.

I've fallen out of the habit of checking Twitter/X, but for some reason the notifications piqued my interest this morning.

I tried loading the messages around 9:30 AM ET, and none of the notification messages nor my timeline loaded. It distinctly felt like server issues.

Seems like they've been having issues all day?

Not envying their oncall engineers right now.

Good.

I see reports dating to back to around 4am. did the dst switch take it down?

If it's really a DDoS attack, I assume the perpetrators picked the time most inconvenient to current employees, which I believe are mostly located in the Bay Area compared to pre-Elon years where Twitter had a more geographically distributed workforce.

No loss.

They need laid off more people now.

And the rest will sleep in the office, because driving home every day is impeding the 100h work week.

X is moving to Cloudflare

X is down

Never heard of it.

It’s a letter in the English Alphabet.

Interesting, I'll check it out someday.

godel.com/isitdownrightnow.com/isitdownrightnow.com.html

"The site has been unreachable for more than 80 days."

^The point is this is a bad resource to determine if the site is down, since it's been reporting it down for a long time.

Use this one:

https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

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