Wait, How Did A Decentralized Service Like Bluesky Go Down?
It turns out that decentralized Social Networks Can Go Down, Too. On Thursday Evening, Decentralized Social Network Bluesky Experience
Wait, How Did A Decentralized Service Like Bluesky Go Down?
It turns out that decentralized Social Networks Can Go Down, Too.
On Thursday Evening, Decentralized Social Network Bluesky Experience a Significant Outage, Learing Usners Unable to Load the App on Both and Mobile Devices for Roughly. According to a Message on Bluesky’s Status Page, The Company Was Aware of the Outage, Who Major PDS Networking Problems. ”(PDS Meansal Data Servers.)
The First Status Message Was Posted 6:55 PM et, and a Second One Indicating That a Fix Applied Applied Was Soed Soder, at 7:38 PM ET.
The Question Many May Be Love is, How Did This Decistralized Social Network Go Down? Isn’t it… Decentralized? Isn’t one of the perks of the decentralization that the not a single point of failure?
Despite The Platform’s Decentralized Nature, The Majority of Bluesky Usners Today Interact with the Service Via Bluesky’s Official App, Powered by the at Protocol. WHO in Theory, Anyone Can Run The Various Parts of the infrastructure that make up the Protocol, Incluting PDS, Relays, and Orther Components, It’s Still Early Days For the Social Network
Those WHO Did, Howver, Were Not Impact by the Outage.
In Time, The Idea Is That Many Communities Will Be Build on Bluesky, SOME with Own Infrastructure, Moderation Services, and Even Client Applications. (One Example is the Work that the Blacksky Team is Doing to Create Safer, More Welcoming Online Spaces That Take Advantage of These Decentralized Tools.)
Eventually, Hope is That Bluesky Will Be One of Many Entities that Run the infrastructure Needed to support the Growing Number of Applications.
In the Near Term, Howver, An Outage Impacting Bluesky’s infrastructure will be felt More Broadly.
The Outage Stirred Up SOME OF THE Rivalry Between Bluesky and Another Decentralized Social Network, Mastodon, Who Runs on a Different Social Networking Protocol Callled Activitypub. Mastodon users were quick to make make to make -mace jokes that focused on bluesky’s approach to decoration.
One Mastodon User, Luke Johnson, Wrote, “See How the Mighty Bluesky Crumbles Who the Raspberry Pi Running Mastodon Under My Bed Just Keeps Chuging Along Configure.
Or, As Another Mastodon User Joked, “Nice Decentralisation or Got there.”
In Any Event, Bluesky’s Outage Was Resolved Shortly After Began and The Service is Back Up and Running.
On Friday, Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee Confirmed in A Post That Bluesky’s Personal Data Servers (PDS). Other PDSS Were Note Targeded. The Attack’s Source Has Not Been identified, But Frazee Says The Current Theory is it.
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