Bluesky confirms DDoS attack is cause of continued app outages

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6:22 AM PDT · April 17, 2026

The representation shows the icon of Bluesky, the caller decentralized societal web created by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.

Bluesky’s website and app are inactive struggling connected Friday aft experiencing work interruptions that COO Rose Wang attributed to a denial-of-service attack. On Thursday evening, the institution officially confirmed that a “sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack” was to blasted for the issues, which had primitively started connected Wednesday, April 15, 2026, astir 8:40 p.m. ET.

In a station connected the Bluesky account, the institution shared the origin of the occupation and noted that the onslaught was “impacting our operations, with users experiencing intermittent interruptions successful work for their feeds, notifications, threads, and search.”

The institution said that it has not seen immoderate evidecne of unauthorized entree to backstage data, however.

The network’s status page is besides presently not working.

Because the outages are intermittent, the Bluesky tract and app volition load astatine times, slowly, and different times volition show mistake messages.

For instance, switching to a peculiar provender wrong the app could show a connection that says, “This provender is presently receiving precocious postulation and is temporarily unavailable. Please effort again later. Message from server: Rate Limit Exceeded.”

Popular feeds similar Discover oregon the authoritative Bluesky Team’s provender often spot this problem, adjacent arsenic users’ ain idiosyncratic feeds are functional. Other times, similar erstwhile trying to sojourn a user’s profile, the tract volition show an mistake message, forcing you to refresh and effort again.

Bluesky protocol technologist Bryan Newbold remarked around 3:46 a.m. ET connected Wednesday, “oof, our services are getting beauteous hard tonight.”

When primitively reached for remark connected Thursday, Bluesky lone pointed america to the status.bsky.app leafage and relationship (@status.bsky.app) for updates. The institution did not remark connected an ETA for a fix.

The institution contiguous says it volition supply different update connected the presumption of the onslaught and its mitigation connected April 17 astatine 1 PM ET.

Notably, the work disruptions are impacting Bluesky, but different communities moving their ain infrastructure connected the underlying protocol that powers the decentralized societal web look to beryllium functioning for the clip being.

It was wide that Bluesky’s squad was successful a hectic authorities this week portion facing these issues, arsenic 1 connection connected its presumption leafage had a typo: ” investigating an incidental with work successful 1 of our reginos [sic].”