How is it garbage? It's crowdsourced monitoring so sure, there will be false positives (especially when aws/cloudflare/azure/bgp services have a bad day), but it's one of the best indicators to quickly know if _something_ is going on.

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cush 2 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah, but the methodology means that normies are going to inaccurately blame AWS and Google (both are down right now according to downdetector)

	▲	OGWhales 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		At least it reports the numbers they are getting, you can see that outlook has 130k reports while AWS only has 1.3k.