Yeah, I'm gloating over Bluesky being down.

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@xgranade BlueSky was a bad bet when it started: centralized social media started by the Twitter guy with vaporware federation funded by Bitcoin Idiots, LLC . I hope people stop trying to kick Lucy's football after this, but I'm not holding my breath.

[neilk@xoxo.zone]

@aud @xgranade I am vaguely aware that Jay Graber crashed out a few months ago but what is this about a new slur? Can’t find any references

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@neilk @aud It didn't really take off, so I don't want to give it any more attention, but she and Jesse Singal tried to get a breakfast food to be a slur amongst fellow transphobes... it stuck for about one day and then everyone got bored.

[ministerofimpediments@mastodon.social]

@xgranade …that’s why you don’t lock a quick-release wheel…

[misofist@girlcock.club]

@xgranade "CEO tried to invent a new transphobic slur"

wait what?

[the5thcolumnist@ottawa.place]

@xgranade

Something ironic about the first news article I found on Bluesky being down was from AOL.

Remembering Compuserve, Prodigy, and AOL before The Freenets and the Internet.

Bluesky down: Twitter competitor not working amid major outage

Bluesky has gone down in what appears to be a major outage. The X competitor, which surged in popularity in the wake of Elon Musk’s purchase of what was then Twitter, is refusing to let users log in or to show them posts. Bluesky operates an official status page which is built to give updates on outages, but that also appeared to be affected by the problems.

(www.aol.com)

[philip@social.simplexity.quest]

@xgranade or @fedihost !

[bruce@darkmoon.social]

@xgranade

And I just found out that bluesky.com is a company that makes custom planners and calendars. I'd like to think they were offered a lot money for the domain name and told bsky to get stuffed.

[afterdark@shellsharks.social]

@theorangetheme @xgranade And now you can add vibecoded

[laukidh@infosec.exchange]

@stufromoz @xgranade it’s occasionally up for a few minutes.

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@Laukidh @stufromoz They're claiming it's a DDoS, which while that does raise some strong questions as to whom, why, and how they're able to do so much damage to a "decentralized" platform, is at least consistent with being up and down every few minutes.

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@Misofist @xgranade "waffles" as a word to say you don't give a fuck

[waitworry@sakurajima.moe]

@xgranade @neilk @aud i'm partially glad that didn't stick because it would have ruined an extremely good twitter meme