Bluesky is currently facing disruptions due to a significant Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which began early in the morning at 1:42 AM ET. The platform reported that issues have persisted throughout the day, with ongoing interruptions affecting users' feeds, notifications, threads, and search functions. By 11 AM ET, users were still experiencing problems, including accessing the status page meant for outage monitoring.
As of 7:47 PM ET, Bluesky acknowledged the challenge of the DDoS attack, which has intensified over the course of the day. Despite the attack's severity, the platform has indicated that there is no evidence of unauthorized access to user data. Bluesky previously encountered a brief outage earlier this month, and the current situation resembles a rolling blackout rather than a complete service failure.
An update from Bluesky is expected to be released by 1 PM ET on April 17, providing further information on the ongoing issues.