It’s not just you — Bluesky is (sorta) down

Bluesky experienced a multi-day DDoS attack beginning April 15, 2026, causing intermittent service outages affecting feeds, notifications, and search functionality, with no evidence of data breach but significant operational disruption. This incident underscores the infrastructure vulnerabilities of emerging platforms and highlights how even sophisticated companies struggle with sustained DDoS mitigation, while competitors like Blacksky capitalized on the outage to recruit migrating users. For IT leaders, this demonstrates the critical importance of robust DDoS defense strategies, clear incident communication protocols, and redundancy planning for cloud-based services, particularly as decentralized platforms compete for market share.