#DNS changes preceded (and later ended) the outage.
Now #real_talk: No matter how much you like Facebook, #Instagram, #Whatsapp, Facebook #Messenger … you need to make sure that you and your contacts have another active channel of communication that can be used in place of each of those. Because your communications and relationships with people you care about are too important to entrust them solely to one corporation.
@ink_slinger@danyspin97 it depends what your threat model is (secure from whom, and how skilled and scary are they?), and who you want to use it with, of course. If you're just looking for a #FreeCode alternative to #Skype/ FB #Messenger that has user-friendly mobile apps, I suggest #Wire. It's the first free code chat app I've managed to my non-geek family to use. Like Signal, and unlike Telegram, both client *and* server source are available under free code licenses.