Obviously, decentralized social networks can also go down. On Thursday evening, decentralized social network Bluiceki has experienced a significant outbreak, users unable to load the app on both web and mobile devices for about an hour. According to a message on the status page of the Blocky, the agency was aware of the outage, which is it Featured “Major PDS Networking Problem.” (PDS means personal data server.)
The first status message was posted on the evening: 5: 1, and the second indicates that a fix is being applied.
The question that many people are now asking now is, how did this decentralized social network come down? Is it … not decentralized? Is one of the benefits of decentralization that there is no single point of failure?
As it appears, despite the decentralized nature of the platform, Bluesky users today most users communicate with the service through the official app driven by Protocol. Theoretically, anyone who can drive different parts Infrastructure that produces protocol, This is still the primary days for social networks, including PDS, relay and other components, so very few people did it.
Those who did was not affected by the outage.
Over time, the idea is that many communities will be built on blusky, some with their own infrastructure, restraint service and even client applications. (An instance of this to today is the work Blacksky Teams are creating safe, more welcome online spaces that take advantage of these decentralized equipment))
Finally, the hope is that blusky will be one of the many entities that run the infrastructure needed to support the growing number of applicable applications built in protocol.
However, at the nearest time, an outbreak that affects Blizzsky’s infrastructure will be felt more widely.
Outage certainly arouses some competition between Blusky and other decentralized social networks, which run a different social networking protocol called activities. Mastodon users quickly pointed to Bluski outage to make jokes or jabs that focused on the decentralization of blusky.
A Mastoadon user, Luke Johnson, Wrote“See Raspberry Pie under my bed is running down when running powerful bluskee clums” – a mention of how small machine users can configure themselves.
Or, as any other Mastoadon user Mockery“Beautiful decentralization you have come there.”
In any event, the disruption of the bluskee was resolved soon and the service is back up and running.