Since early Thursday morning, Bluesky has been experiencing intermittent downtime. It’s not unusual for a platform to go through outages, of course. If you check in with Downdetector every now and then, you’ll see how often users of websites big and small report issues with the service. In most cases, some bug or small issue has gummed up the works behind the scenes, and it doesn’t take long for the platform’s engineers locate the problem and issue a fix: downtime over. But that doesn’t seem to be the case with Bluesky—at least, not this time.
Bluesky was hit with a DDoS attack
On Thursday at 7:47 p.m., Bluesky posted an update on its official Bluesky page. The post says the reports of outages occurred starting 11:40 p.m. PT on Wednesday (2:40 a.m. ET on Thursday), which the platform attributes to “a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack.” Bluesky says the attack “intensified”
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