Mastodon.social experienced a major DDoS attack starting around 9:48 AM on April 23, with the service experiencing outages for about 17 minutes before degraded performance continued until 10:40 AM when countermeasures took effect. The attack was confirmed by the platform's official status page and reported across major tech outlets including TechCrunch and Engadget, with the team noting the service had mostly recovered by the time of this post. This marks the second major social platform hit by DDoS within the same week, following a similar attack on Bluesky several days prior.