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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:onMastodon1d ago
DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.
DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.
Both networks claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide :)
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Analysis Summary
Both BlueSky and Mastodon.social were hit with DDoS attacks this week — BlueSky went down entirely around April 15, while Mastodon's flagship server experienced disruptions April 21 but other federated instances kept running normally. This illustrates a real architectural difference: BlueSky is centralized so one attack takes the whole network offline, while Mastodon's federated design means other instances can absorb traffic and queue messages until affected servers recover. The comparison is fair and backed by how the two networks actually responded to the same type of attack.
Claims Analysis (4)
“BlueSky experienced a DDoS attack a few days ago where the whole network goes down”
Multiple sources confirm BlueSky DDoS attack around April 15, 2026 causing service disruption.
“Mastodon.social today experienced a DDoS attack with lots of users on that instance impacted”
TechCrunch confirmed mastodon.social was hit by DDoS on April 21, 2026 with countermeasures implemented.
“The rest of the Fediverse keeps on running during mastodon.social DDoS, messages queue until mastodon.social is reachable”
Federated architecture allows other instances to continue — claim is architecturally sound but specific message queueing behavior unverified.
“BlueSky claims decentralization but entire network went down; Mastodon is more resilient because it's actually federated”
BlueSky experienced full outage while Mastodon instance failure didn't crash entire network — supports the architectural comparison, though 'claims' vs actual decentralization of BlueSky is contested.
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