As a regular critic of the #Bluesky "decentralized" baloney, been trying not to pile on as yesterday's near total outage makes it clear that it is not, however there is one aspect of the reporting that is confounding.
Supposedly, the outage was due to a DDOS attack on the company's PDSs, and the few users running their own PDSs were not affected. (https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/wait-how-did-a-decentralized-service-like-bluesky-go-down/). Does this make any sense?
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Wait, how did a decentralized service like Bluesky go down? | TechCrunch
It turns out that decentralized social networks can go down, too. On Thursday evening, the decentralized social network Bluesky experienced a significant
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