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It’s not just you — Bluesky is (sorta) down

2026-04-16 | original
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Why This Matters

Bluesky, a decentralized social media platform, is experiencing significant service disruptions due to a denial-of-service attack, highlighting vulnerabilities in emerging decentralized networks. This incident underscores the ongoing challenges of maintaining stability and security in innovative social media infrastructures, which are increasingly relevant for both industry development and user trust. As Bluesky works to resolve these issues, it serves as a reminder of the importance of robust cybersecurity measures in the evolving social media landscape.

Key Takeaways

In Brief

Bluesky’s website and app are still struggling on Thursday after experiencing service interruptions that COO Rose Wang attributed to a denial-of-service attack.

According to the social network’s status page, the issues began around 2:42 a.m. ET time on Thursday and have continued since.

Screenshot Image Credits:screenshot of Bluesky

Currently, the Bluesky site and app will load at times, slowly, and other times will throw error messages.

For instance, switching to a particular feed within the app displays a message that says “This feed is currently receiving high traffic and is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. Message from server: Rate Limit Exceeded.”

Popular feeds like Discover or the official Bluesky Team’s feed are seeing this problem, though users’ own personal feeds may launch.

Other times, like when trying to visit a user’s profile, the site will just display an error message, forcing you to refresh and try again.

Screenshot Image Credits:screenshot of Bluesky

Bluesky protocol engineer Bryan Newbold remarked around 3:46 a.m. ET, “oof, our services are getting pretty hard tonight.”

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