Bluesky spent much of August 16 and 17 fighting traffic of the decidedly unwanted kind. The social network confirmed that a distributed denial-of-service attack, better known as a DDoS attack, overwhelmed its infrastructure with junk traffic and left many users unable to access the platform. The disruption lasted roughly 24 hours and was felt across multiple countries, including the U.S., UK and France. Some users struggled to load feeds, notifications and threads, while others could not get int
