Bluesky's latest outage was another DDoS attack, not a technical glitch.
The company confirmed the outage stemmed from a distributed denial-of-service attack, where attackers flood a service with junk traffic until it buckles under the load. It's the same type of assault that has knocked Bluesky offline more than once this year. The company has not detailed the scale of the attack, who might be behind it, or how long it took to mitigate. No further technical specifics have been shared.
Repeated DDoS hits are becoming a recurring cost of running a fast-growing social network, and Bluesky is still a young company scaling its own infrastructure rather than leaning on years of hardened ops experience. Every outage chips away at the trust it has built as an alternative to X, especially among users who left Twitter over reliability complaints in the first place.
Rivals have faced similar attacks before, so Bluesky's growing pains look less like an anomaly and more like an industry rite of passage.