BlueSky is flailing once again. The platform said some of its systems are down and that it is “investigating an incident with service at one of our regens” (that’s Bluesky’s typo, not mine). The problem appears to have begun at 1:42 a.m. ET and continued as of 11 a.m. when this story was originally published. Since then, the site has been experiencing intermittent outages, including occasionally crashing its status page, where users should be able to monitor outages.
At 7:47 p.m. ET, the platform reported it was “attempting to mitigate a sophisticated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that has been rampant throughout the day.” It said the attack caused disruptions to users’ feeds, notifications, threads, and searches, which the Engadget team experienced at various points throughout the day. While DDoS attacks are often used as a virtual smokescreen for hacks, Bluesky says it has “seen no evidence of unauthorized access to private user data.” There was another brief disruption in social media service earlier this month.
The outage continues, but due to its intermittent nature it is more of a blackout than a power outage. Bluesky says it will provide another update on the situation by 1pm ET on April 17.
Update, April 16, 8pm ET: This story was updated after publication to coincide with the BlueSky outage.
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