<![CDATA[DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.]]>DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.

DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.

Both networks claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide 🙂

]]>https://forum.other.li/topic/a4a655e2-ee71-4a56-afd3-e2c60fc9e15b/ddos-distributed-denial-of-service-attack-against-bluesky-a-few-days-ago-the-whole-network-goes-down.RSS for NodeMon, 20 Apr 2026 22:04:55 GMTMon, 20 Apr 2026 14:48:00 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:43:19 GMT]]>@jwildeboer

👍

There's still a network effect though. Half the accounts I follow or care about are down. But maybe incidents like this will inspire users to migrate off of mastodon.social.

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://mas.to/users/darth_hideout/statuses/116438033968555583https://forum.other.li/post/https://mas.to/users/darth_hideout/statuses/116438033968555583Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:43:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:34:43 GMT]]>@jwildeboer there wuz ddos?

😲

hadnt noticed. real decentralization is great 😁

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://mstdn.social/users/bweller/statuses/116438000152597438https://forum.other.li/post/https://mstdn.social/users/bweller/statuses/116438000152597438Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:34:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:24:08 GMT]]>@jwildeboer saw mastodon.social was down, just had to flip to my backup account. 🤷‍♂️ it’s that easy. Gotta love federation.

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://techhub.social/users/CannedTuna/statuses/116437958558246689https://forum.other.li/post/https://techhub.social/users/CannedTuna/statuses/116437958558246689Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:24:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:15:44 GMT]]>@agowa338 The TL;DR for me is that the current ATProto/Atmosphere architecture still contains centralised elements that stand in the way of full federation. My suspicion is that this is by design.

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116437925496603386https://forum.other.li/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116437925496603386Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:15:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:03:15 GMT]]>@jwildeboer Apparently not the entire BlueSky network went down because of this. Someone yesterday pointed out that they still were able to post and do stuff with people on other instances BUT that the main issue is the BlueSky network demands that everyone has a full view on their own instance. As you get replies by them referencing the parent post and not the parent referencing the children...

So I assume BlueSky is more like the Usenet than like Mastodon in the end.

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://chaos.social/users/agowa338/statuses/116437876440595859https://forum.other.li/post/https://chaos.social/users/agowa338/statuses/116437876440595859Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:03:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:01:40 GMT]]>@Linux @jwildeboer this is interesting to ponder and quite true. Also, may be an argument for multiple accounts on multiple instances.

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://mastodon.social/users/newtraditionalists/statuses/116437870238424857https://forum.other.li/post/https://mastodon.social/users/newtraditionalists/statuses/116437870238424857Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:01:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:49:02 GMT]]>@jwildeboer @CAPETOK he aquí la explicación de lo que te quejabas en la mañana con respecto a mastodon

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://mast.lat/users/MDT/statuses/116437820553594724https://forum.other.li/post/https://mast.lat/users/MDT/statuses/116437820553594724Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:49:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:45:54 GMT]]>@jwildeboer In most cases they are so rampant that said traffic at the IX level works pretty well…

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://jorts.horse/users/kkarhan/statuses/116437808223380092https://forum.other.li/post/https://jorts.horse/users/kkarhan/statuses/116437808223380092Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:45:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:44:54 GMT]]>@jwildeboer it's only decebtralized if there's no Single Point if Failure.

Same goes for anything else:

  • Regardless if +
    • If say 5222.de is down the only ones noticing are their users and their contacts.
  • Or /MIME.
    • And that is it's strenght.

In fact is so powerful that @delta / is getting popular in because even if they wanted to, (they don't, obviously!) they couldn't comply with 's !

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://jorts.horse/users/kkarhan/statuses/116437804303827134https://forum.other.li/post/https://jorts.horse/users/kkarhan/statuses/116437804303827134Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:44:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:44:41 GMT]]>@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net

This is why people should span out across the Fediverse.

We have this decentralized network, but if most people are in the same place you can take most of it out in one move. Clustering on one large site makes it the weakest link.]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://mivatter.com/notes/alaxjrj2h2https://forum.other.li/post/https://mivatter.com/notes/alaxjrj2h2Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:44:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:42:48 GMT]]>And to be very clear about this: DDoS attacks are stupid and cause a lot of work. My sympathy goes to the sysadmins on every side, including those at the upstream network providers who have to deal with this, often at weird times. It is exhausting work and I really don't want you to have to do it, but hey, that's the world we live in, unfortunately. Sys Admin Hug!

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116437796005831444https://forum.other.li/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116437796005831444Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:42:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:20:22 GMT]]>@jwildeboer

No issues so far on mastodon.world

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://mastodon.world/users/maddad/statuses/116437707849621619https://forum.other.li/post/https://mastodon.world/users/maddad/statuses/116437707849621619Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:20:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:13:02 GMT]]>@jwildeboer

"Everybody should invest their time and energy where they feel comfortable. "

I agree!

"still has a lot of catchup"

My point is just that there is enough momentum for things to change drastically even over the next year.

Won't harp on this further, I just don't want people to get caught by surprise.

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://stefanbohacek.online/users/stefan/statuses/116437678985527225https://forum.other.li/post/https://stefanbohacek.online/users/stefan/statuses/116437678985527225Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:13:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:10:23 GMT]]>@stefan Everybody should invest their time and energy where they feel comfortable. For me that is ActivityPub. My observation is that ATProto/Atmosphere/BlueSky still has a lot of catchup to do to reach the level of decentralisation the Fediverse already has. Is all.

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116437668590642583https://forum.other.li/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116437668590642583Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:10:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:09:17 GMT]]>@jwildeboer Eg. because of the growing decentralization, one issue that is coming up over there is people linking to their post from non-Bluesky apps.

And you can't use the "copy the URL into the search" trick we have on here.

So them making progress on decentralization is a double-edged sword, where the fediverse could have an advantage, if we continue working on smoothing some of the user experience challenges related to decentralization.

Just a thought.

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://stefanbohacek.online/users/stefan/statuses/116437664227857491https://forum.other.li/post/https://stefanbohacek.online/users/stefan/statuses/116437664227857491Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:09:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:07:07 GMT]]>@jwildeboer I get people wanting to feel good about their decision to be here instead of on Bluesky, but given all the work going into building up independent ATProto infrastructure, I think we'll be better off focusing our energy elsewhere.

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116126040489956521

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://stefanbohacek.online/users/stefan/statuses/116437655711530728https://forum.other.li/post/https://stefanbohacek.online/users/stefan/statuses/116437655711530728Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:07:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:01:33 GMT]]>@jwildeboer If I look hard I can see it in the sidekiq queue latency metrics.

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://fnordon.de/users/dentaku/statuses/116437633846354421https://forum.other.li/post/https://fnordon.de/users/dentaku/statuses/116437633846354421Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:01:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:57:33 GMT]]>@jwildeboer

And also, GotoSocial doesn't really notice, nor Pixelfeld, nor Friendica, nor so many others that I can't really list them all.

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://jasette.facil.services/users/MichelPatrice/statuses/116437618070796114https://forum.other.li/post/https://jasette.facil.services/users/MichelPatrice/statuses/116437618070796114Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:57:33 GMT