<![CDATA[Nothing but blue skies on the Fediverse today even as a major Mastodon instance falls.]]>Nothing but blue skies on the Fediverse today even as a major Mastodon instance falls.

Today, the flagship, and most widely used Mastodon instance, crashed under a DDoS attack but my selfhosted timeline and the fediverse kept on chugging as if nothing happened, including my federated WordPress ActivityPub site, with exception to absent Mastodon.Social content.

The other day, not so true for AT and Bluesky.

I thought it was worth mentioning...

Enjoy the song snippet...

Full Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAa4teWb0rU

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/763a5466-f5e6-43e0-b235-25c541416499/nothing-but-blue-skies-on-the-fediverse-today-even-as-a-major-mastodon-instance-falls.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 02:56:49 GMTMon, 20 Apr 2026 16:38:42 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Nothing but blue skies on the Fediverse today even as a major Mastodon instance falls. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:08:13 GMT]]>@paul My instance was down?

<looks at e-mails from mastodon.social>

Oh. They were down for a couple hours. Slept through it. Oh well. 🤷

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Jason844/statuses/116438367818310073https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Jason844/statuses/116438367818310073Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:08:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Nothing but blue skies on the Fediverse today even as a major Mastodon instance falls. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:36:10 GMT]]>@paul hopefully they'll do a blog about it in the near future

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://strangeminds.social/users/danny/statuses/116438241783985087https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://strangeminds.social/users/danny/statuses/116438241783985087Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:36:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Nothing but blue skies on the Fediverse today even as a major Mastodon instance falls. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:29:11 GMT]]>@danny I hope Mastodon.Social does an autopsy and lets us know what happened in case something is gearing up.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://oldfriends.live/users/paul/statuses/116438214354213962https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://oldfriends.live/users/paul/statuses/116438214354213962Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:29:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Nothing but blue skies on the Fediverse today even as a major Mastodon instance falls. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:49:13 GMT]]>@paul I suppose when you get that big you become a target

No problems with my own instance

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://strangeminds.social/users/danny/statuses/116438057159325547https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://strangeminds.social/users/danny/statuses/116438057159325547Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:49:13 GMT