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Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day

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Re: Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day

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Post by direwolf20 »

snailmailman wrote: post #18
anon7000 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’re saying a mastodon instance can’t vet DDosed?

The people I follow on mastodon come from a wide variety of instances. While mastodon.social is the largest instance, most of the accounts I follow are elsewhere. Granted, all the smaller instances are likely easier to DOS as they are small instances. But mastodon is actually decentralized. If any one instance goes down, everything else keeps working. Unlike Bluesky and ATProto which is more of a theoretical “could b…

On the Fediverse you can even block mastodon.social and still have a well populated feed. This is not the case for bluesky.

Re: Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day

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Post by throwaway290 »

hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #46
throwaway290 wrote: post #39

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You mean the one for old ios versions?

You mean the iOS version people are refusing to upgrade from because of the shittified forced UI changes?

You mean those three people who refuse to apply ios 18 security patches because they think it'll give them liquid glass?)

Re: Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day

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Post by shafyy »

direwolf20 wrote: post #50
shafyy wrote: post #34

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Thought so too. Odd.

Bluesky has never been distributed/decentralised. It's a single central system, which fetches 0.001% of user data from external systems if the user opts in, and has a marketing team that calls this decentralisation.

I know, didn't add an /s. I thought it was obvious haha

Re: Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day

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Post by ascorbic »

SlinkyOnStairs wrote: post #43
minimaxir wrote: post #2

The prevalent discourse/attempt-at-a-meme-but-people-are-taking-it-seriously saying "Bluesky is down because of AI vibecoding!" is starting to get annoying and unoriginal. Even when Bluesky confirmed it's a DDoS, the line is now "maybe they wouldn't have gotten DDoSed if they didn't vibecode and their code was better."

> Even when Bluesky confirmed it's a DDoS, the line is now "maybe they wouldn't have gotten DDoSed if they didn't vibecode and their code was better." The context of the "jokes", regardless of if one finds them funny, is that this is exactly how AI boosters (including the bluesky team) have been behaving. Every little benefit, no matter how small or unfounded, was being attributed to AI usage. So people do the opposi…

I haven't seen them do this at all. They've said that they use AI tools when writing code, because most devs do, and they've previewed Attie, their codegen for custom feeds thing, which is a separate tool. None of that is attributing improvements in Bluesky to AI.

Re: Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day

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Post by junon »

pixel_popping wrote: post #48
Manfred wrote: post #44

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DDoS saturates the network, not the service. Even a box doing nothing would still be unreachable.

Not true, a well done DDoS targets also underlying services (example hitting most consuming DB writes).

There are multiple kinds of ddos attacks targeting different levels of infrastructure. Idk how anyone can say absolutely that a ddos works in one specific way.

Re: Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day

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Post by pino83 »

genewitch wrote: post #32
Charon77 wrote: post #19

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True. The only 'distributed' part of bluesky is in the PR. Otherwise there'd be more instances. My mastodon account is not even on mastodon.social, because why would I, when I could have a home server closer to home

i get real tired of people trumpeting that bsky is distributed. Can i run a private node? can i run a functional node completely within my network segment? because i can with gnusocial and misskey; i've never run mastodon; i am on fosstodon and a couple of other mastodon-likes. bluesky is to discord what mastodon (fedi) is to IRC. don't let the fact that most people use the main instances fool you, there's thousands…

Two times some guys at Mastodon tried to convince me to try Bluesky.

I explicitly told them that I want something distributed and that's a high priority, not a nice-to-have.

Yesss, there's definitely some very cheeky marketing going on.

Re: Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day

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Post by [deleted] »

minimaxir wrote: post #2

The prevalent discourse/attempt-at-a-meme-but-people-are-taking-it-seriously saying "Bluesky is down because of AI vibecoding!" is starting to get annoying and unoriginal. Even when Bluesky confirmed it's a DDoS, the line is now "maybe they wouldn't have gotten DDoSed if they didn't vibecode and their code was better."

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Re: Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day

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Post by daveguy »

walletdrainer wrote: post #42
cryzinger wrote: post #11

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A week or two ago, when there was a Bluesky outage and a Claude outage at the same time, people were earnestly pointing to that as evidence that Claude was somehow a load-bearing component of Bluesky, or that AI vibecoding had caused the outage... I had to just disengage but I was also very annoyed by it all.

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Why would anyone blindly criticize AI tools, when there are so many flaws to see?
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