🌐 Bluesky's Decentralized Dream Hits a Snag: Outage Leaves Users in the Dark 🔌
Even decentralized networks aren't immune to hiccups. Bluesky experienced a significant outage, raising questions about its infrastructure. Here's what happened. 🤖⚠️
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2025-04-24 05:30 +0530
🌐 Bluesky’s Decentralized Dream Hits a Snag: Outage Leaves Users in the Dark 🔌
Bluesky, the decentralized social network, faced a surprising challenge on April 24, 2025, when users were unable to load the app on both web and mobile platforms for approximately an hour.
🛠️ What Went Wrong?
Despite its decentralized architecture, Bluesky’s outage was attributed to “Major PDS Networking Problems.”
🤔 Isn’t Decentralization Supposed to Prevent This?
While Bluesky is built on the AT Protocol, which allows for a decentralized network of personal data servers (PDS), the majority of users currently rely on Bluesky’s official app and infrastructure. This centralization within a decentralized framework meant that when Bluesky’s hosted PDS instances experienced issues, most users felt the impact.
🐘 Mastodon Users Weigh In
The outage didn’t go unnoticed by the broader decentralized community. Mastodon users, whose platform operates on a different protocol (ActivityPub), took the opportunity to highlight the differences in decentralization approaches. One user humorously noted, “See how the mighty Bluesky crumbles while the Raspberry Pi running Mastodon under my bed just keeps chugging along.”