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About Bluesky outages
Written by the HostTracker monitoring team · updated from live probe data.
Bluesky is a decentralised social network built on the AT Protocol, and that architecture gives its outages a shape most platforms do not have. Rather than one monolith, it separates the app you use, the personal data servers that hold accounts, and the relay and feed-generation services that assemble timelines - so a failure can hit custom feeds while the following timeline works, or affect accounts on one hosting provider while others are unaffected. Bluesky has also grown in sudden bursts, with large waves of signups arriving whenever another platform has a bad week, and several of its most visible slowdowns have been straightforward capacity events triggered by exactly that kind of influx.
Common causes of Bluesky downtime
Signup and onboarding surges when users migrate en masse from another platform, saturating registration and timeline services
Feed-generator failures that break custom and discovery feeds while the basic following timeline continues to load
Personal-data-server problems, which affect the accounts hosted on a particular server rather than the whole network
Posting and media-upload errors that block new content while reading works normally
Not sure whether it's Bluesky or your own connection? Read the full breakdown in our website down checker guide for a general walkthrough of diagnosing any outage, from DNS failures to expired certificates.
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Questions people ask during an outage
The live probe run on this page tests bsky.app from a broad sample of HostTracker's 300+-location monitoring network - many independent networks at the same moment, rather than just your own connection. If every location fails to reach it, the outage is real and affects everyone; if only a few locations fail while most load normally, the problem is local to those regions or networks rather than Bluesky being fully down. A single refresh from your own browser can never make that distinction, because it only ever tests from one vantage point on one network.
Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL - including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website - as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.
No, and this is a good illustration of how the network is put together. Custom feeds are produced by feed generators that run separately from the core timeline service, and many are operated by third parties rather than Bluesky itself, so an individual feed can fail entirely while your following timeline and posting continue to work. If several unrelated feeds break at once the problem is more central; if it is one feed, it is that generator. Either way the platform is not down, which the reachability check on this page will confirm.
Because that is when it receives its largest bursts of new users. Bluesky's growth has come in waves tied to trouble elsewhere, and a sudden influx puts simultaneous pressure on the parts of the system that are hardest to scale quickly - account creation, initial timeline population and the relay that fans posts out across the network. The result is slowness and intermittent errors rather than a clean outage, concentrated in the first hours of a migration wave. These events usually resolve as capacity is added, and they affect new-account flows more sharply than established ones.
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