Bluesky Outage Freezes Feeds for Some Users

Bluesky is a microblogging social media platform based in the United States and a substitute for X, in the early hours of today, had a network outage that prevented some users from viewing or sharing new articles for several hours. The first thing which was noticed was that there were no posts more recent than two hours ago on a user’s “Following” feed, which is meant to load posts chronologically. The user thought something must be going on because he currently follow 728 profiles, some of which are very active online. For other users, the feed never broke at all, but it later loading properly.

Bluesky’s own service page was later changed to recognise “network disruption” that caused certain posts to be “delayed by several hours,” even though it did not report any outages during the occurrence. While the official developer account for AT Protocol, the technology that powers Bluesky, states that “all services should now be recovered!” it now states that “network services are recovering, and recent posts by all impacted users should appear soon.”

An article from a user of the social media application this morning seemed to post successfully however, when a friend attempted to share it during the outage; he could still see it on my Bluesky profile page and got a notification about a reply from a Verge reader. However, when he attempted to click through to the post, it stated that it was not found. Even though it shows a timestamp from a long time after the friend first attempted to post it, he can now see the message live on the network.

Below is the outage period and duration as detected and the resolution path by Downdetector.

The problem reports that were submitted in the last 24 hours are displayed in this chart along with the average number of reports by time of day. Throughout the day, several issues are frequently reported. Only when the volume of problem complaints is much greater than what is normal for that time of day does Downdetector report an event. 

Services on the Bluesky network are getting back up, and all affected users’ most recent posts should show up shortly according to the Bluesky. The situation will continue to be monitored by our team.

Also according to Bluesky, the broad service degradation had several product features and ecosystem services which are being impacted by upstream network disruptions between important Bluesky services. Many Bluesky and independent PDS instances experience several-hour delays in event delivery, including posts and conversations.

The growth of Bluesky has mostly stabilised. Between November 2024 and March 2025, it gained an additional 10 million users, bringing its total to 30 million. And now, five months later, it has hit 38 million.

The Bluesky app has received 25.5 million downloads overall. The Bluesky app has about 4.1 million daily active users as of June 2025.