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 A lot of you probably didn't notice, but Facebook Instagram and WhatsApp went down yesterday because the dsn a and AAA records were attacked.

I don't have a full understanding of what that means, but given that the domains became available for purchase, I can make context clues based on the information I already have with my short time as a self-proclaimed internet historian.

I'm also the type of person that is more interested in why this happened because what happened is a lot simpler to explain. What's not going to be so simple to explain but the media is going to try to explain anyway are the Pandora papers. The long records of a former employee recording all of Facebook's wrongdoings. I was one of the many watching the highlights of Facebook's hearing, but I wasn't watching them in full like many others. If you weren't involved at all, but you're getting involved now, you're about to learn a lot from the summaries of the Pandora papers.

For those of you who aren't trying to keep up with this because you know you can't keep up with all this shit for whatever reason, the least to be understood is that Facebook Inc and its products going down like that is on some v for vendetta shit.

If you're considering moving yourself around on your internet presence and deleting Facebook Instagram and WhatsApp here are some suggestions:

Replacement for Facebook
Friendica
Meetup
Twitter
Google probably has something coming down the pipe that will hopefully have a better introduction than Google plus.

Replacement for Instagram
Snapchat (contrary to popular belief, Facebook does not own snapchat. They made an offer in 2011 and the offer was declined. Google also made an offer and was also declined.)
Twitter
Mastondon

Replacement for WhatsApp
Telegram
Signal
WeChat

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