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Thousands Report Bluesky Outage as Investigation Continues
Bluesky said some systems were down as 2,700 users reported outages on Downdetector before reports fell to about 450, the company said.
- On Thursday, April 16, 2026, social media platform Bluesky experienced significant service interruptions, which COO Rose Wang attributed to a denial-of-service attack.
- Service disruptions began around 2:42 a.m. ET on Thursday, with Bluesky's status page reporting it was "investigating an incident" involving two servers.
- Downdetector reports peaked at around 2,700 earlier, and while figures have since dropped to around 450, the outage persisted for more than 7 hours.
- The Bluesky Team reported "some systems down," later noting, "We are starting to see some early recovery," though many users faced loading errors.
- Bluesky launched as a decentralized alternative to X after Elon Musk purchased Twitter in 2022, attracting users who object to Musk's changes.
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Bluesky is having some issues in one of its 'reginos'
Bluesky is once again having a wobble. The platform says some of its systems are down and that it’s “investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos” (that’s Bluesky’s typo, not mine). The issue appears to have started at 1:42AM ET and was still persisting as of 11AM.According to Bluesky’s status page, three servers were down, including one based in the US East region. The outages appear to be due to connection timeout issues. It se…
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