• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    As in, the traffic it experienced wasn’t enough to cause server problems? Weird how that works.

    I’m sure the alleged difficulty in accessing Grindr has nothing to do with thousands of extra people flooding an area and overloading the local cell networks, not all of whom are even Republican and plenty of which are gay.

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      As a veteran of the cell phone industry I can confidently say that’s not the issue. Maybe in the days 4G when capacity was only capable of 2000 to 4000 connections per square kilometer but with 5G the limit is in the millions and in an area like that it’s all fiber backbone to the MTSO. It’s not the network. If it was we would see Uber and others impacted and we don’t.

      It’s not thousands of extra people on the local cell network. That argument fails completely and looks like grasping at straws.

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        ‘Tons of more traffic in an area than is typical can overwhelm a cell network’ is more grasping at straws than ‘this site that uses the IP of anyone who responds to approximate their location is an objective measure of local internet traffic, also VPNs don’t exist’? Please be real.

        Were you ever able to find those Republican conventions in Boston, NYC, and every other city lit up on the map? It’s not just one problem with this argument, it’s absolute Swiss cheese.

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          Did you just invent a conspiracy theory where people are using VPNs to fake their location data to make it look like Grindr is having an outage?

          Then you followed that up saying let’s be real?

          Did I read your comment correctly? I don’t want to misinterpret it but that’s what it looks like you said.

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            You’ve been on the internet for more than 10 minutes and believe absolutely nobody would submit a fake DownDetector report for a laugh? Not even one person, because the data of a website that lets anyone click a button that says ‘I’m having a problem’ is a perfect capture of reality? Just making sure I’m understanding you correctly.

            I said other things in that comment, but the fact VPNs exist and that it can be done is relevant to the data’s trustworthiness regardless of whether or not it happened but sure dawg. That’s exactly what I said: it’s a vast conspiracy. Whatever lets you not engage with how desperately you need Republicans to secretly be gay.

            Where are the NYC and Boston Republican conventions, man? That’s gotta be the only way anyone can have problems accessing Grindr, right?

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                Thanks for confirming that not only are you interacting in intentional bad faith, you also think it’s impossible to use a VPN to access downdetector and that nobody would ever do such a thing on the internet. Don’t think too hard about why it’s so important to you to “prove” that Republicans are mostly gay.

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                  I never said impossible. I said you decided a conspiracy was the more likely situation. I also never said Republicans are mostly gay. That’s your wording and not my position at all.