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As a regular critic of the "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. (techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/wait). 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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Apparently has one centralized service, the "relay", which did not go down, but it has distributed its users across multiple PDSs (and users can roll their own PDS). The idea is that any individual PDS can go down and so long as the relay keeps working all the other users are OK.

But, ALL of the company's PDSs went down. 馃

We are being told that a DDOS attack targeted ALL of 's PDSs and they all went down simultaneously. Suppose this is possible, but it does seem odd.

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