I’m surprised by how quickly they put together a post mortem, let alone how quickly they were willing to publish it to the world.

Meanwhile, on X, white nationalist supremacists / Groypers / America First America Only types are spreading a conspiracy theory that Cloudflare’s outage was caused by having too many Indians employees and H1Bs. Example:

https://xcancel.com/DiggingInTheDi1/status/19908503102026673...

This is far from the only one such post, but what’s amusing / horrifying is that this belief is getting millions of likes across all these posts.

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mh- 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Why give this sort of content more visibility/reach?

I'm sure that's not your intent, so I hope my comment gives you an opportunity to reflect on the effects of syndicating such stupidity, no matter what platform it comes from.

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SilverElfin an hour ago | parent [-]

Mainly to make others aware of what’s happening in the context of this Cloudflare outage. Sure I can avoid giving it visibility/reach but it’s growing and proliferating on its own, and I think ignoring it isn’t going to stop it so I am going awareness will help. I’ve noticed a huge rise in open racism against Chinese and Indian and workers of other origin, even when they’re here on a legal visa that we have chosen as a nation to grant.

The legislation that MTG just proposed a few days ago to ban H1B entirely, and the calls to ban other visa types, is going to have a big negative impact on the tech industry and American innovation in general. The social media stupidity is online but it gives momentum to the actual real life legislation and other actions the administration might take.

	▲	mh- an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Fair points; there's certainly a balance to be struck between raising awareness and amplifying, and I admittedly have no idea where that line is.