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Top 5 Things You Need to Know: Is Bluesky Down?

• Massive Outage Confirmed: As of 2:00 PM ET, Bluesky is experiencing a major service interruption, with over 40,000 user reports flooding Downdetector. Users are seeing the dreaded “Connection Failed” error, locking thousands out of their feeds following a recent influx of users from X (formerly Twitter).
• The ‘Twitter Exodus’ Culprit: Insiders point to an unprecedented server spike directly linked to a controversial legal verdict in the US this afternoon. A mass of users attempting to migrate from X to Bluesky in real time appears to have overwhelmed the fledgling platform’s infrastructure.
• The Official Statement: Bluesky’s status page has just been updated, stating: “We are aware of connectivity issues. Teams are actively scaling database capacity.” No estimated time for a fix has been provided, but developers are reportedly in an “all-hands-on-deck” mode.
• The ‘Ghost Town’ Effect: Even users who can remain logged in report a bizarre “read-only” state. You can scroll, but new posts (skeets) are failing to load, the ‘Like’ button is unresponsive, and direct messages are stuck in a perpetual “Sending…” loop.
• The Workaround (For Now): The only active users are those who were already logged in before the crash hit. The advice from mods? Stay logged in on your app or browser tab now and do not refresh—anyone logging out risks losing access until the servers are brought back online.