Bluesky Issues "Final Update" on April 15 Outage - Shares No Details - Drops DDoS Claim
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Bluesky Issues "Final Update" on April 15 Outage - Shares No Details - Drops DDoS Claim
What is notable about this terse update is the lack of information, and no mention of a DDoS attack.
People had expected some form of incident report. What actually happened? What actions were taken to restore service? Contributing technical & systemic causes? Actions taken to diminish likelihood & impact of future similar recurrences?
(See reply below for official comms so far.)
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Bluesky Issues "Final Update" on April 15 Outage - Shares No Details - Drops DDoS Claim
What is notable about this terse update is the lack of information, and no mention of a DDoS attack.
People had expected some form of incident report. What actually happened? What actions were taken to restore service? Contributing technical & systemic causes? Actions taken to diminish likelihood & impact of future similar recurrences?
(See reply below for official comms so far.)
As of Friday April 17, these had been the official communications from Bluesky PBC regarding the April 15 outage attributed to a DDoS attack. Today (above) they said without providing any further information, and dropping the DDoS attack claim, that there will be no further updates.
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Attached: 4 images Bluesky's Official Responses Regarding the System Outage Thursday Bluesky posted that the outage was cause by a "sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack", and promised an update by the end of the day. The end of day update was simply that they would provide an update by this morning. Friday morning they posted an update that they would provide an update by the end of the day. Later they simply posted that they will provide an update by Monday morning. #Bluesky #DDoS
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Bluesky Issues "Final Update" on April 15 Outage - Shares No Details - Drops DDoS Claim
What is notable about this terse update is the lack of information, and no mention of a DDoS attack.
People had expected some form of incident report. What actually happened? What actions were taken to restore service? Contributing technical & systemic causes? Actions taken to diminish likelihood & impact of future similar recurrences?
(See reply below for official comms so far.)
@mastodonmigration Lol so they realized once again it was their own AI riddled code and don't want to say it publicly.
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@mastodonmigration Lol so they realized once again it was their own AI riddled code and don't want to say it publicly.
We don't know. One would hope that tech media will ask them.
It also now seems incumbent on tech media to ask them for more information on the outage as detailed above.
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Bluesky Issues "Final Update" on April 15 Outage - Shares No Details - Drops DDoS Claim
What is notable about this terse update is the lack of information, and no mention of a DDoS attack.
People had expected some form of incident report. What actually happened? What actions were taken to restore service? Contributing technical & systemic causes? Actions taken to diminish likelihood & impact of future similar recurrences?
(See reply below for official comms so far.)
@mastodonmigration How long until it comes out...
"We wired in AI training on all your data and can't confess that's what caused the downtime so we have nothing else to say"
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