This shows that विकेंद्रीकृत social networks can also go down.
On Thursday evening, the social network Bluesky experienced an important closure, which users were unable to load the app on both the web and mobile devices for about an hour. According to a message on the Blueski’s Status Page, the company was aware of the closure, which is Attributed “Big PDS networking problems” (PDS means personal data server.)
The first status message was posted on ET at 6:55 pm, and the second indicates that a fix was being applied immediately after 7:38 pm.
The question that many people are asking is how did this social network decrease? Is this… delayed? Is it not a benefit of a decentralized point that there is not a single point of failure?
Despite the nature of the platform, the majority of Bluesky users today talk with the service through the Bluesky official app, which runs through the AT Protocol. In theory, no one can run its different parts Infrastructure that makes the protocol, There are still the early days for the social network, including PDS, relay and other ingredients, so few people have done so.
These people, who, however, were not affected by its closure.
Over time, the idea is that many parties will be built on Bluesky, some with their own infrastructure, moderate services, and even client applications. (An instance is the work that Lexki The team is doing safe, more welcome online spaces that benefit from these tools.)
Finally, the hope is that Bluesky will be one of the many companies that run infrastructure that requires the increasing number of applications built on AT Protocol.
However, in the near future, a closure that affects the Bluesky infrastructure will be felt more widely.
The closure created some enmity between Bluesky and another विकेंद्रीकृत social network, Mustoden, which runs on a different social networking protocol called Activity Pub. Mastoaden users pointed to the closure of jokes or jabs, which focused on Bluesky’s dedicated view.
A Mustoden User, Luke Johnson, Is written“See how the raspberry pie falls under my bed when the raspberry pie is just falling on it,” – a reference to how the mastuden itself can form small machines itself.
Or, as another Mustoden user Funny“Good विकेंद्रीकरण or got there.”
In any case, Bluesky’s closure was resolved shortly after the start and service was backup and running.