Wait, how did a decentralized service like Bluesky go down?

It turned out that centralized social networks can fall below.

On Thursday evening, the decentralized social network is unable to apply users who can not load applications on both hours and mobile devices, but also within an hour. According to a message on BlueSkin’s status page, the company is this, this belonging “Basic PDS network problems”. (PDS means personal data servers.)

The first status message was 6:55 and the second, which was applied to an amendment, was shared at 7:38 pm at 7:38.

A large number of questions can already be asked, how did this centered social network fall? Not … centered? Isn’t one of a centralized perks without a failure point?

Despite the centralized nature of the platform, most BlueSky users are in contact with the official application of Bluesky, equipped with the protocol today. While in theory, everyone can handle different parts Infrastructure, which forms the protocol, This is still the first days for the social network, including PDS, Relays and other components, so very few.

However, they were not affected, but without interruption.

Over time, many communities are BlueSky, some are built with their infrastructure, moderation services and even customer appeals. (It is an example of an example Unit The team is to create online venues, which is more reliable, better welcoming online venues of this centralized means.)

Finally, Umid, Bluesky will be one of many organizations that manage the infrastructure needed to support the number of growing applications in the protocol.

At the same time, a cut in the nearby, the infrastructure of Blue will be felt wider.

Bluesky and mastodone working in a variety of competitions between the mastodone, which has another central network, a different social networking protocol named ForePub. Mastodon users pointed to a cut to make jokes or jabs aimed at approaching BlueSki’s centralization.

A mastodone user, Luke Johnson, write“While continuing the mastodone mastodone running under my bed, Mastodon, who works for Mastora’s Pi,” Even small machine users themselves are killed in the powerful Bluesky how they can configure themselves.

Or as another mastodone user joke“Beautiful centralization is either there.”

In any case, it was settled shortly after the bluesky’s cut and the service is back and running.