Bluesky Had a Rough Morning Earlier Today

This Tuesday morning, Bluesky is experiencing ups and downs. (Note that this is uncommon on the open web or on decentralized social networks; for instance, RSS has never seen a downtime in over 25 years), Dave Winer said on his Bluesky account. The Back-to-back disruptions on the social media site Bluesky stopped many users worldwide from loading their feeds. Another Bluesky user, ‪@darthbluesky.bsky.social‬ shared a screenshot on this handle as he on Bluesky as he claims not to be sure of (this seems to be an error message in error tbh).

According to Downdetector, the first outage began at around 6 AM ET and lasted for roughly 40 minutes before crashing again at around 8 AM. On April 24, Bluesky suffered yet another significant outage that lasted for approximately an hour. The business ascribed this to PDS networking issues.

Although Bluesky’s pages loaded while logged out, many of the staff at The Verge were unable to refresh our Bluesky feeds across the desktop web service or Bluesky’s iOS and Android apps. However, some self-hosted users reported that they were still able to post to their decentralized servers during the outage of the flagship app and service.

Bluesky’s status page stated that “some systems” were unavailable during the outages, but it’s presently unclear what’s causing the problems or when platform access will be stable. But by 8:25 AM ET, the website was loading once more, and right now, all of the status lights are green.

A microblogging social network called Bluesky Social is being created in tandem with the decentralized AT Protocol. In February 2024, the flagship Beta app—which had hitherto been invite-only—went public. Everyone is welcome!