Introduction:
Following Elon Musk‘s revelation that X will no longer offer the “block” function in favour of mute-only communication, Twitter, er, X competitor Bluesky bowed out. When trying to load content, Bluesky users occasionally encountered errors and had delayed load times. The loading of graphics and images could have been more active. A performance problem was also being looked into, according to the site’s status page.
Members of the Bluesky team have yet to confirm what is causing the troubles at hand or whether the timing is a coincidence. The company has frequently had to deal with the surge of users when Twitter announces a particularly disagreeable change, which may be the case now.
However, the decentralized social media network has had 5,616 new registrations in the last 24 hours, as opposed to 536 in the 24 hours before, according to statistics from a source that uses the Bluesky API to track new user registrations. Therefore, it’s possible that more people suddenly redeemed their invitation codes.
Meanwhile, the Bluesky status page stated that PDS performance had declined and that “We are currently investigating this issue.”
The AT Protocol documentation, which is the protocol used by Bluesky’s app, refers to PDS as a “Personal Data Server” or “PDS,” which “acts as an account’s trusted agent in the network, routes client network requests, and hosts repositories.”
Bluesky Buckled Following Twitter/X’s Announcement:
Bluesky Buckled Following Twitter/X’s Announcement [Source of Image : Techcrunch.com]
Gabe Rivera, the CEO of Techmeme, also mentioned that his news websites had to stop posting to Bluesky because their attempts to use Bluesky’s APIs were time out.
Over the last several minutes, we have discovered that Bluesky’s problems gradually fade. A new note occurred as we updated the status page. Bluesky claims to have “fixed the main problem,” but it also stated that “some images may not be loading” and that a remedy is being worked on. As users react to the shocking news, Bluesky and Threads are trending phrases on X, indicating another Twitter/X exodus may begin.
Twitter has frequently been the source of referrals to Bluesky, despite having no reliable means to monitor the functioning of the competing network outside of the status page. A few months ago, 86% of social referrals to the Bluesky app’s website (sky. app) came from twitter.com, according to data from Similarweb. That percentage decreased to 78.8% over the last 28 days. According to the company, from a peak in mid-July, total daily traffic also reduced.
Recent changes by X have reduced referral traffic to several websites, including those of its rivals, such as Threads and Bluesky.
