Wait, how did a decentralized service like a bluske fell?

Apparently, decentralized social networks can also decrease. On Thursday evening, the Bluesky decentralized social network witnessed a significant interruption, leaving users unable to download the application to both web and mobile devices for about an hour. According to a message about the Bluesky case page, the company was aware of the interruption that it represented Attributed To “Main PDS network problems”. (Pds means personal data servers.)

The first case message was published at 6:55 pm EST, and a second process was shared indicating that the reform was applied shortly after 7:38 pm East time.

The question that many might ask now is, how did this decentralized social network decrease? Isn’t it … not central? Is not one of the advantages of decentralization that there is no single failure point?

As it turned out, despite the decentralized nature of the platform, the majority of Bluesky users interact today with the service through the official application of Bluesky, supported by the Protocol AT. While in theory, anyone can run different parts of The protocol infrastructure, Including PDS, terminals, and other components, still the first days of the social network, even a few of them did so.

Those who were not affected by interruption.

Over time, the idea is that many societies will be built on Bluesky, some with their infrastructure, moderation services, and even customer applications. (One example of this so far is the work that border The team creates safer and more welcome spaces online that benefit from these decentralized tools.)

In the end, hope is for Bluesky to be one of many entities that manages the infrastructure needed to support the increasing number of protocol -based applications.

However, in the short term, the interruption that affects the Bluesky infrastructure will feel wider.

Of course, interruption of interruption has sparked some competition between Bluesky and another non -central social network, Mastodon, which works on a different social network protocol called Activitypub. Mastodon users were quick to refer to Bluesky’s interruption in order to make jokes or jokes that focused on Bluesky’s approach to decentralization.

Mastodon user, Luke Johnson, books“See how the great Bluesky collapses while running Raspberry Pi Mastodon at the bottom of my bed only” – a sign of how Mastodon can run even the users of the small machines they are configuring.

Or, as another user from Mastodon Jokingly“The gentle decentralization, I got there.”

However, a blouse was resolved shortly after starting and operating the service.