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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 jimsimmons »

interroboink wrote: post #22
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.

Isn't this exactly what caching is for? If it's read-only data, I feel like hug-of-death should not be the norm. Maybe it's bad when lots of people want to interact with information all at once. Or maybe when access to information is gated behind a bunch of javascript client/server interactions. On the other hand, I'm out of touch and still just write static HTML pages when I can get away with it :þ

A lot of people trying to sign up probably. This degrades performance of one part of the system that is generally not highly optimised. This permeates everywhere

Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Post by moonterrace »

paulgb wrote: post #15
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

Posts are not private according to the FAQ: https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-19-2023-user-faq

Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Post by DennisAleynikov »

publius_0xf3 wrote: post #48
petesergeant wrote: post #18

But it’s owned by Jack, right? Who’s posting increasingly Musk-level takes on Twitter

Seriously, what is with Silicon Valley people turning into insane cranks over the past year? Is there a ketamine fad causing brain damage among them?

It might just be their opinions mature with time. These aren't exactly outlandish opinions

Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Post by tambourine_man »

mg wrote: post #10

What's funny is that while Twitter wants you to log in and goes at great length to prevent you from reading anything when not logged in, the situation is exactly the other way round with Bluesky. They limit who can sign in, but openly publish all data via their API. So one could use an AT protocol client to read, or a web based client like this one: https://firesky.tv/ I just made an account, let's see how this thing…

> but openly publish all data via their API.

Until they don’t.

> I just made an account

Isn’t BlueSky invite only?

Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Post by svnt »

mg wrote: post #45
bushbaba wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No guarantee they don’t change this when they get bigger and shift from user acquisition to revenue & profitability. Bluesky is VC funded and there’s expectations of revenue growth down the line.

I have not looked into it very deeply yet, but as I understand the Bluesky project, this would not be as easy for Bluesky as it is for Twitter and Reddit. You can use your own domain as your identity. Even when you use a service like bsky.app, you can use @yourdomain.com as your handle. And switch to any other service to publish under the same handle.

I’m not sure how your argument serves as any counter to “VCs invest in companies to make money” except that the shell game may be one deeper in this case.

Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Post by reedf1 »

publius_0xf3 wrote: post #48
petesergeant wrote: post #18

But it’s owned by Jack, right? Who’s posting increasingly Musk-level takes on Twitter

Seriously, what is with Silicon Valley people turning into insane cranks over the past year? Is there a ketamine fad causing brain damage among them?

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Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Post by TheRealPomax »

Sorry, is there an actual article with a real URL somewhere? Because this just goes to a lock screen going "create an account", so either everyone who upvoted this has a bluesky account, or the post got locked down and it's no longer information. It's just a gate.
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