Why is there an expectation for social media services to have such high uptime? It's not an ISP or cloud provider, why does it matter if it goes down occasionally?
In my mind, it isn't about any specific expectation. Events like this are interesting because the cracks are starting to show when a company follows the "fire as many people as possible, run lean, integrate AI" strategy. The trend I'm seeing is that downtimes are becoming more common, which in turn does not speak well to that strategy.
Yes, I think we’d all benefit from that perspective. Of course, the revenue implications for the ownership of one of these pointless brain rot factories being down for a half hour are enormous. That’s a little notable but only for their shareholders.