[est31]

Yeah compare broken water pipes with broken facebook/whatsapp etc. If the former is broken, people don't have water until the issue is fixed. With latter, at least they can use one of the alternatives (and they do, usage counts of alternatives go up during outages).

[HPsquared]

That is, unless the water pipes require internet to work.

[noobermin]

Yeah, I'm not talking about broken facebook or twitter, I'm talking about the various cdns out there, cloudfare, etc

[oblio]

Even for those. Swapping a CDN or infra provider is difficult, but hardly impossible.

It's much easier than the same operation for physical infrastructure.