Recent DDoS attacks struck Bluesky (taking the network down for 99% of users for a full day) and mastodon.social (affecting ~30% of the fediverse for hours), revealing how network topology drives resilience. The article argues that decentralization alone does not guarantee resilience; rather, the fediverse's distributed server topology (tens of thousands of independent servers) provided better fault isolation than Bluesky's centralized architecture. Paradoxically, the fediverse's resilience is a contingent result of the 2022–23 Twitter migration wave, not protocol-level design.
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DDoS attacks expose the resilience paradox: Bluesky's centralized architecture crashed (99% downtime) while Mastodon's distributed server topology (tens of thousands of independent nodes) weathered the same attack with ~30% impact, showing that network fault isolation—not decentralization ideology—determines survivability.
Thursday, April 23, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: LobstersBY sys://pipeline
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