Wait, how did a decentralized service like a bluske fell?
It turns out that decentralized social networks can also decrease.
On Thursday evening, the Bluesky decentralized social network witnessed a significant interruption, leaving users unable to download the application to both web and mobile devices for about an hour. According to a message about the Bluesky case page, the company was aware of the interruption, which was attributed to “main pds network problems”. (Pds means personal data servers.)
The first case message was published at 6:55 pm EST, and a second process was shared indicating that the reform was applied shortly after 7:38 pm East time.
The question that many might ask now is, how did this decentralized social network decrease? Isn’t it … not central? Is not one of the advantages of decentralization that there is no single failure point?
Despite the decentralized nature of the platform, the majority of Bluesky users interact today with the service via the official Bluesky app, supported by the AT. While in theory, anyone can manage different parts of the protocol infrastructure, including PDS and other components and components, there are still early days of the social network, so a few have done so.
Those who did, however, were not affected by interruption.
Over time, the idea is that many societies will be built on Bluesky, some with their infrastructure, moderation services, and even customer applications. (One example is the work that Blacksky is doing to create safer and more welcome spaces online that takes advantage of these decentralized tools.)
In the end, hope is for Bluesky to be one of many entities that manages the infrastructure needed to support the increasing number of protocol -based applications.
However, in the short term, the interruption that affects the Bluesky infrastructure will feel wider.
The interruption of some competition between Bluesky and another non -central social network, Mastodon, which works on the protocol of various social networks called ACTIVITYPUB. Mastodon users were quick to indicate the power outage in order to make jokes or tremors that focused on Bluesky’s approach to decentralization.
“See how the great Bluesky collapses while Raspberry Pi, who runs Mastodon under my bed, remains along” – reference to how to run Mastodon even the users of the small machines they create.
Or, as another user of Mastodon, “gentle decentralization, has arrived there.”
However, a blouse was resolved shortly after starting and operating the service.
On Friday, Bluesky Cto Paul Frazee confirmed in a publication that Bluesky’s personal data servers were the victim of DDOS attacks – usually, harmful attempts by bad actors to disable regular traffic into a server. The other PDSS has not been targeted. The source of the attack has not been identified, but Freizi says that the current theory was that it was an accident by a third party.
This post was updated after publishing to include confirmation of the DDOS attack.