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Bluesky outage double feature, part 1

2024-11-14 14:39:34

Jupiter Rowland via Fediverse memes

JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works

Image macro, based on a screen capture from the film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me with a caption above it and another one at its bottom. It shows the actor Mike Myers as the main antagonist Dr. Evil, forming quotation marks with his fingers. <br />Above the screen capture, there is a white space with the caption, “When bsky.social goes offline and takes effectively the entirety of Bluesky with it because absolutely everyone is on that one instance:”. The caption at the bottom, attributed to Dr. <br />Evil himself, is, “Decentralised”.

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

See also here.

fedimemes

2024-11-14 15:10:40

givesomefucks

givesomefucks@lemmy.world

Eh, I feel like the important part of decentralization right now is the potential to migrate.

Like, how many social media sites actually last 5 years before shitting the bed?

If admins of an instance get shitty, it’s trivial to move to a new one. Traditional social media you’d have to migrate to a completely different site, with different features, layout, and other stuff.

People won’t all wait for the same reason, as the biggest becomes actually “big” we’ll see them start to fracture.

There just wasn’t enough people on fediverse to start out like that.

So think of Blue sky, World, and all those other “big” instances that still don’t have that many users as the egg for the future fediverse that actually has enough users to be proper decentralized

2024-11-14 16:11:02

MimicJar

MimicJar@lemmy.world

Based on www.theverge.com/…/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.

2024-11-14 16:13:52

itsgroundhogdayagain

itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml

Sorry, Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml were down for maintenance again. You were saying?

2024-11-14 17:43:28

RandomVideos

RandomVideos@programming.dev

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?

2024-11-14 20:32:47

capital

capital@lemmy.world

It’s more like “”“federated”“”.

2024-11-15 08:48:22

mm_maybe

mm_maybe@sh.itjust.works

also incredibly easy for the federal government to take them out

2024-11-15 21:38:40

Ham Strokers Ejacula

Backlog3231@reddthat.com

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.

2024-11-15 22:53:38

Scott M. Stolz

scott@authorship.studio

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.

2024-11-16 12:04:26

Duamerthrax

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world

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.

2024-11-16 17:09:08

Mycatiskai

Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca

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.

2024-11-17 17:38:03

BananaTrifleViolin

BananaTrifleViolin@feddit.uk

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.

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