@Felthry Yeah, *apparently* some kind of routine upgrade work screwed up their DNS registrations on a very deep level, and it screwed up all the sites that depend on Facebook.
I saw some Birdsite giggling that, apparently, part of what made it hard to fix things is tech teams use Facebook-connected services to coordinate activity and now that was gone.
Also *allegedly* some of their techs were locked out of buildings and sections by Internet-connected door locks that routed through Facebook.
@Austin_Dern what the fuck why are their door locks connected to facebook
why are they connected to the internet anyway and not some local-only network
-F
@Felthry @Austin_Dern they're not connected to Facebook the software but they probably route their web requests through a domain owned by Facebook (if not a subdomain of facebook.com)
@Felthry @Austin_Dern I read that they had to use an angle grinder to reach the servers