Bluesky outage double feature, part 1
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.
Sorry, Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml were down for maintenance again. You were saying?
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.
And here I have a lemmy.world account because I'm not sure my own instance is that solid 🤕😥
Can they do it again please?
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
At this point, anything that hurts Twitter is good. Bluesky may go down in two years, but if twitter dies in one, I'll be happy. People need to learn to jump platforms again.
It's more like """federated""".
also incredibly easy for the federal government to take them out
The German federal government?
Bluesky is US-based. Perhaps you're thinking of Mastodon? It doesn't really matter, though; I'm sure the new censors will block access from the US to any site that is potentially critical of Trump or his administration, regardless of location.
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?
The interesting thing is that Bluesky might become federated because of bridges to the fediverse. You would be able to federate with Bluesky with a fediverse server.
I have a question.
My partner has made an account on Bluesky because her favorite weather person got banned from Facebook but they made a Bluesky account.
I don't go on that kind of site, but I saw this post here. So my question is should she join some other instance of Bluesky that isn't Bsk.social so it won't crash?
Even if it is short crashes, I want her to have a good experience with decentralized networks and not go back to Xshitter.
So my question is should she join some other instance of Bluesky that isn’t Bsk.social so it won’t crash?
There aren't any, hence the meme.
I want her to have a good experience with decentralized networks
It is only notionally decentralised, she should just consider it as Xitter without the people actively trying to burn the world down with us still on it.
See also: Bluesky's fedi-washing and some context for that.
On the upside, it was fairly brief while they did an update, which is what all websites have to do from time to time, including a lot of Lemmy instances with the new version out. So it shouldn't spoil her user experience.
In fairness they're still rolling out their federation.
Individuals can host their own servers with limited users (10 I think?). The Guardian seems to have launched one judging by their new account @theguadian.com launched today.
And they're using an open prptocol, with a promise to transfer it to an independent standards body in the near future. Also Jack Dorsey no longer has anything to do with it which is another good sign.
Can I have the documentation? I believe you I just haven't found it myself (I'm bad at looking things up)
I'd be interested in self hosting my own Bluesky server if this is the case, maybe I could bridge it to my Misskey Server
@Turret3857 I don't have any documentation, but I do know that Friendica (which is a multi-protocol platform) created a Bluesky addon. Maybe their code might be a good example. #^https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons/tree/develop/bluesky
Also, Bridgy Fed can be used by any ActivityPub-based platform to connect to Bluesky. That can work in the meantime until direct integration with AT Protocol is developed.