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occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Apr-2026 08:51:47 JST occult
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116415821939972420
Fantastic thread by @mcc documenting the recent BlueSky outage.
I've been wanting a proper technical examination of BlueSky's supposed decentralized and architecture to cut through the hype I've read from ATProto / BlueSky advocates about how PDSs, AppViews, and other components interoperate.
They really have misrepresented the stack and how resilient it all is.
The fact that in 2026, BlackSky (as amazing as the team is) is still affected and is less transparent than I thought is surprising.
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  Bluesky is down today. "Hah", I think, "since I use a self-hosted PDS for posting and Blacksky for viewing posts, I can go on using the service just fine". Blacksky can't show me my own posts. I can make them and they show up on my PDS, but my profile shows none more recent than last night. I wonder if Blacksky is coincidentally having server problems, or if Blacksky has a still-undisclosed dependency on Bluesky services. (It *does* have disclosed use of Bluesky moderation; maybe that's it.)

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