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Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Post by RobotToaster »

Arathorn wrote: post #5
ZacnyLos wrote: post #3

Fortunately Mastodon has multiple instances so the traffic is not harmful for the whole community as it is for Bluesky.

bluesky’s federation is in test ( https://atproto.com/blog/federation-developer-sandbox); so nearly there…

>As part of the sandbox, we will be doing routine wipes of all network data.

Sounds pretty centralised if they can just wipe all data like that?

Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Post by TillE »

Arathorn wrote: post #5
ZacnyLos wrote: post #3

Fortunately Mastodon has multiple instances so the traffic is not harmful for the whole community as it is for Bluesky.

bluesky’s federation is in test ( https://atproto.com/blog/federation-developer-sandbox); so nearly there…

I haven't dug into the details of either protocol at all, but I hope they find a way to interoperate with ActivityPub. In the longer term we really don't want two completely isolated networks doing the same thing.

Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Post by paulgb »

ayhanfuat wrote: post #9

Did they start fighting scrapers, too? I cannot see the contents of the link it asks me to log in.

I think bluesky posts have always been private, at least while they are in invite-only mode. Here's what the linked skeet says:

> Our systems are currently experiencing some degraded performance as a result of record-high traffic. You may notice some slowness in-app as a result. Our team is working to resolve this issue.

> You can view our system performance status here: status.bsky.app

Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Post by CharlesW »

DennisAleynikov wrote: post #4

not surprising. centralized communication platforms suffer from the hug of death naturally occurring when people want to read information all at once.

Not if they’re well-designed and adequately provisioned, which is just as true for federated platforms.
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