BlueSky's website and app were still struggling with service outages on Thursday. Chief Operating Officer Rose Wang blamed the attack on a denial of service attack.
According to the social network's status page, the issue began around 2:42 a.m. ET Thursday and has persisted ever since.
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Currently, Bluesky sites and apps may load slowly or display error messages.
For example, when you switch to a particular feed within the app, you'll see a message that says, “This feed is currently receiving a high amount of traffic and is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. Message from server: Rate limit exceeded.”
Popular feeds such as Discover and the official Bluesky team's feed are experiencing this issue, but users' own personal feeds may be triggered.
Other times, such as when you try to access a user's profile, the site simply displays an error message and you need to refresh and try again.
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Bluesky protocol engineer Brian Newbold said around 3:46 a.m. ET, “Oh, service is getting pretty difficult tonight.”
The company has not officially shared the cause of the slowdown or provided an estimated time for a fix.
Mr. Bluesky has not yet responded to a request for comment.
While the service disruption has affected Bluesky, other communities running their own infrastructure on the underlying protocols that power decentralized social networks appear to be functioning for the time being.
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