Overview
- Bluesky users saw Home and Explore feeds fail Thursday as reports on Downdetector climbed into the thousands.
- By Thursday evening, the company said it was mitigating a sophisticated DDoS flood that disrupted feeds, notifications, threads and search.
- Service has flickered since then, with some pages loading and others throwing errors like blank timelines or “Rate Limit Exceeded.”
- Bluesky cites issues with an upstream provider in the U.S. East region and plans another status update by 1 p.m. ET Friday.
- Independent communities running their own AT Protocol servers appeared steadier, underscoring how reliance on outside services can create single points of failure even on decentralized networks.