[afnog] Another Perspective - Kentik's View on the Facebook Outage

[Markus Akena Wipfler]

On Sat, 9 Oct 2021, 1:59 am Mark Tinka, <mark at tinka.africa> wrote:

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> On 10/9/21 00:43, Markus Akena Wipfler wrote:
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> I would call it a general problem of globalisation. Connecting everyone
> everywhere brings it's set of challenges. To satisfy an ever growing global
> demand we need complex tools that we humans operate with a brain that for
> the majority of human existence was used to deal with local issues. I
> believe we need to get back to focusing more on local markets and providing
> local solutions. Ofc stupidity can occur anywhere but at a local level the
> impact is only felt locally.
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> Two issues here, really:
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>    - Trying to deliver a service for free to eyeballs at scale will
>    require massive over-engineering, and the associated risk.
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No argument there. But FB is not for free. We are the product. We pay with
our privacy.

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>    - If the service provided better reliability through a nominal
>    subscription, would you pay for it? The fact that the horse has left the
>    barn, notwithstanding?
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> I don't use any FB services apart from Whatsapp which I only use coz of
one family chat group :)

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>    - The incessant need to keep growing, as a mechanism to report
>    corporate and self-worth, is likely to dumb local concentration to a
>    reasonable degree. The Internet is the ideal platform for this (problem).
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Where is this need coming from? Is it in our nature, or are we exposed to
subliminal life long programming to keep the hamster wheel turning?

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>    -
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> Mark.
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