DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.
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DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.
DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.
Both claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
Also, we still don't know if the April 16th thing was a DDoS. That's also what the devs claimed the April 3rd downtime was before their post mortem revealed it to just be sloppy vibe coding causing them to DOS themselves. -
DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.
DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.
Both claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116416411084018591
aeris (@aeris)
@mcc@mastodon.social https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:z5wqufpi3akdylu2sqyzryqr/post/3mjmersqlu22a This post was posted using BlackSky during BlueSky trouble, using a OAuth authentication from my EuroSky PDS, to somebody who create his account with EuroSky during the BlueSky shutdown. RE: @mcc@mastodon.social 2 is totally false. I was able today to log in on BlackSky with my EuroSky PDS and keep talking with anybody currently not using BlueSky AppView, including people using BlueSky PDS but not BlueSky AppView. RE: ...
imirhil.fr (firefish.imirhil.fr)
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And to be very clear about this: DDoS attacks are stupid and cause a lot of work. My sympathy goes to the sysadmins on every side, including those at the upstream network providers who have to deal with this, often at weird times. It is exhausting work and I really don't want you to have to do it, but hey, that's the world we live in, unfortunately. Sys Admin Hug!
As the "not all of BlueSky" folks are occupying the replies, I will simply stop replying. Please continue to discuss, disagree or accept that people like me only have that much time and energy to invest.
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DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.
DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.
Both claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide
@jwildeboer "bluesky is decentralized" yeah and panda express is chinese food
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DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.
DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.
Both claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide
@jwildeboer proof that bluesky is pretending to be decentralized while being centralized under the hood, this is just so it can get away with more.
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DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.
DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.
Both claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide
@jwildeboer Oh they still are decentralized, but most users and the application/client aren't, so it seems moot.
It's worth remembering that Mastodon hit a per instance user limits early on, which led to a similar criticism that lasted years. Given enough time, today's network that doesn't solely rely on the official instance emerged.
It's also easy to forget that running a Mastodon instance can be EXPENSIVE! The one I'm on with maybe a few hundred active users costs $700/mo. IMO this should be way less, but I don't know if the Mastodon org can or has the right incentives to actually fix it.
There are HUGE benefits in both designs, but other than the outages the incentive for the BlueSky (AtProto) network to further decentralize aren't life-or-death as they were here.
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@agowa338 The TL;DR for me is that the current ATProto/Atmosphere architecture still contains centralised elements that stand in the way of full federation. My suspicion is that this is by design.
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net @agowa338 Yes, the PLC Directory (Identitätsverwaltung) is (still) centralized.
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@jwildeboer Oh they still are decentralized, but most users and the application/client aren't, so it seems moot.
It's worth remembering that Mastodon hit a per instance user limits early on, which led to a similar criticism that lasted years. Given enough time, today's network that doesn't solely rely on the official instance emerged.
It's also easy to forget that running a Mastodon instance can be EXPENSIVE! The one I'm on with maybe a few hundred active users costs $700/mo. IMO this should be way less, but I don't know if the Mastodon org can or has the right incentives to actually fix it.
There are HUGE benefits in both designs, but other than the outages the incentive for the BlueSky (AtProto) network to further decentralize aren't life-or-death as they were here.
@pawv The big difference to me is that running an activitypub based instance like mastodon (or gotosocial or misskey, peertube etc) means that everything is in one place. Sure, that might be several services/containers like the app itself, the database server etc. But it's one atomic unit. Participating in the ATProto/Atmosphere network means a whole collection of distributed services that can't be simply installed and run in an easy way, in some cases you need to rely on centralised parts.
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DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.
DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.
Both claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide
@jwildeboer What's ultimately and unirrevocably unique that even during ddos attack I could use the basic UI features after certain time (less than an hour), and within ~2-3h posting worked with a bit of retries (usually less than 2 attempts). Fascinating!
I don't mind currently registering on bluesky, but their decentralization design is much weaker than this fediverse, despite having more public attention from influencers. -
DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.
DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.
Both claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide
@jwildeboer All I can say is dee doo dee doo dee doo. Decentralization is da bomb!
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DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.
DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.
Both claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide
@jwildeboer There truly is a world of difference
I tried running a dedicated stand alone Bluesky server/network but i was unable to
It’s not as simple as just running a PDS, that’s just a super small part of it. Bluesky is designed to keep everyone needing their service one way or another
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DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.
DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.
Both claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide
@jwildeboer was unaware of any such attack until reading this post lol
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