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Truth is if mastodon.social gets ddosd the same as Bluesky I can still use the rest of the network fine. Proof is in the pudding. tons of instances that make up the fabric of redundancy. I think most people would be served better if Bluesky acted differently early with their rollout in a sharded manner?
Blacksky and other instances of bluesky are not affected, what are you talking about?
I thought it was distributed/decentralised?
I may have the division between Bluesky and Blacksky off, but ATProto does allow this sort of thing. Hosting a PDS is trivial and requires very few resources. Hosting a full app view can be expensive depending on how many PDSes you're ingesting from, but you can decide how much of that you want to do.
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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 thought it was distributed/decentralised?
Hopefully there will be some post-mortem. It seems like we're don't really see that many deliberate DDoS attack anymore. Not that it doesn't happen, but they really don't provide that much value against a target like Bluesky (unless you really hate them). I'd be interested in how the attack manifests. Is it an actual DDoS? Is it highly aggressive scraping? We should be able to see this in how the attack manifests its…
There are more now then there ever have been in number of infected hosts and total data volume.
The internet is a big place.
”On 13 April 2026, 21 countries joined forces in a coordinated action week that focused on enforcement and prevention measures against over 75 000 criminal users engaging in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-for-hire services. With over 75 000 warning emails and letters being sent to identified criminal users and 4 arrests, the action week also led to the takedown of 53 domains and the issuing of 25 search warrants.”
Source: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/euro...
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Why would anyone blindly criticize AI tools, when there are so many flaws to see?
What annoys me the most bsky AI hate is the assumption that people who spend a lot of time working with LLMs don’t understand their weaknesses, as if we aren’t constructing systems and evaluations to determine precisely how much AI sucks for our given task.
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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…
It feels like, outside of custom behavior tracking, there's no good way to truly protect your site without making it more restrictive in general. Require JS, client side challenges, cloudflare.
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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.
The Bluesky app view is centralized in that it can decide which content to show, but A) the hosting of that content is decentralized, and B) alternate app views like Blacksky exist which are fully independent of Bluesky (both Bluesky the company and Bluesky the app view). The Bluesky app view could stop showing users content from Blacksky (or any other) PDSes, but that's it. If you're using the Blacksky app view, afa…
They have designed a protocol that could theoretically be decentralised. Then reality hit, and it was centralised.