Bluesky outage disrupts decentralized social network services

April 24, 2025, 8:20 pm

Decentralized social network Bluesky suffered a significant outage that rendered both its web and mobile platforms inaccessible for nearly an hour. Users were left staring at spinning circles while tech pundits marveled at the irony of a “decentralized” platform falling victim to centralized technical failure.

Reddit: r/BlueskySocial

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techcrunch.com / Wait, how did a decentralized service like Bluesky go down?

It turns out that decentralized social networks can go down, too. On Thursday evening, the decentralized social network Bluesky experienced a significant outage, leaving users unable to load the app on both the web and mobile devices for roughly an hour. According to a message on Bluesky’s status...

theverge.com / Bluesky is down

Bluesky is currently experiencing a major outage. On my desktop browser, my Bluesky feed won’t load at all — it just shows a spinning loading circle. I’m seeing something similar with the mobile app; I can log in, but when I do, the feed doesn’t low. Other Verge colleagues are also...

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