A service disruption at Bluesky last week exposed the growing challenges faced by fast-expanding social media platforms, after the company confirmed that a “sophisticated” distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) incident was behind widespread outages. The Bluesky cyberattack began late on April 15, 2026, and quickly escalated, interrupting core functions across the app and leaving users unable to reliably access feeds, notifications, threads, and search.
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