Fediverse memes @feddit.uk Jupiter Rowland @sh.itjust.works 1d ago

Bluesky outage double feature, part 1

Bluesky managed to go offline practically entirely. I count on you folks to spork the hell out of this.

See also here.

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bluesky is more federated than threads, but less federated than mastodon. As I understand it, you can more or less host your own bluesky "instance". Though it is difficult to do and some parts you have to build yourself, it is technically doable. This is not the case on threads, I believe.
also incredibly easy for the federal government to take them out
Sorry, Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml were down for maintenance again. You were saying?
- Can they do it again please?
- And the fact that I had no idea kinda disproves your point. I am browsing Lemmy a lot.
  
  The joke is that most of lemmycels are on lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. Not that these instances literally went down.
- Well, this user has posted on feddit.uk with a sh.itjust.works account. I would have been able to see it, but you wouldn't have.
  
  To be honest, lemmy.world AND lemmy.ml could go offline I would barely notice it.
  
  I think I would mainly notice because my whole feed would be wholesome, supportive, and funny.
  
  I have them both blocked, so yeah, they aren't that important at all.
- Shit doesn't work
- Ah, shit.
Based on https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/14/24296537/bluesky-acting-up-outage-down it was down for 15-30 minutes and for some it was just read-only.

Lemmy instances regularly go down for maintenance longer than this.

Twitter used to regularly "fail whale" and in the long run no one cares.

Yes, decentralizing is a good thing. Yes, it's fun to poke at BlueSky. But in the long run if you have a product that people want to use then they'll put up with a lot of crap/downtime.
- The point is that bluesky has no interest in being actually decentralized, it's just a gimmick
It's more like """federated""".
Assuming people dont make multiple accounts and each server goes offline for maintenance for the same time, wouldnt both one server and multiple servers act the same for the user?

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