I don't really understand this architecture, but I thought Bluesky was distributed like Mastodon? How can it have an outage?

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pfraze 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This writeup is useful for backend engineers: https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers

The simple answer is that atproto works like the web & search engines, where the apps aggregate from the distributed accounts. So the proper analogy here would be like yahoo going down in 1999.

	▲	tapoxi 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This is a fantastic write-up, thanks for sharing!
	▲	isodev 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Google and MSN Search were already available at this time. Also websites used to publish webrings and there was IRC and forums to ask people about things.

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isodev 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s more of a concept of a plan for being distributed. I even went through the trouble of hosting my own PDC and still, I was unable to use the service during the outage

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Retr0id 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Mastodon infra can have outages, too.

	▲	tapoxi 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's just confined to one instance if it goes down, not all of Mastodon.

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direwolf20 44 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's not really distributed. It's a centralised service that pulls some parts of 0.01% of user profiles from their own servers.

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LoganDark 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A web interface and home server can have an outage. Bluesky is just a web interface and home server.