[minimaxir]

The prevalent discourse/attempt-at-a-meme-but-people-are-taking-it-seriously saying "Bluesky is down because of AI vibecoding!" is starting to get annoying and unoriginal.

Even when Bluesky confirmed it's a DDoS, the line is now "maybe they wouldn't have gotten DDoSed if they didn't vibecode and their code was better."

[SlinkyOnStairs]

> Even when Bluesky confirmed it's a DDoS, the line is now "maybe they wouldn't have gotten DDoSed if they didn't vibecode and their code was better."

The context of the "jokes", regardless of if one finds them funny, is that this is exactly how AI boosters (including the bluesky team) have been behaving.

Every little benefit, no matter how small or unfounded, was being attributed to AI usage. So people do the opposite, attributing every little problem to the use of AI.

The implied punchline being "Oh, so now you care about accuracy?"

[ascorbic]

I haven't seen them do this at all. They've said that they use AI tools when writing code, because most devs do, and they've previewed Attie, their codegen for custom feeds thing, which is a separate tool. None of that is attributing improvements in Bluesky to AI.

[_djo_]

As I understand things, the only AI tool the Bluesky team has been pushing has been a feed generator/curator. They have been pushing for vibe coding their systems or for using AI to generate content on Bluesky.

[_djo_]

Have not*

[yangm97]

Nostr has the highest count of AI boosters per square meter I’ve ever seen, yet nobody seems to be DDoS’ing that.

[novemp]

You have to care about something to DDOS it.

[paulddraper]

Do you have an example?

[cryzinger]

A week or two ago, when there was a Bluesky outage and a Claude outage at the same time, people were earnestly pointing to that as evidence that Claude was somehow a load-bearing component of Bluesky, or that AI vibecoding had caused the outage... I had to just disengage but I was also very annoyed by it all.

[swasheck]

people really do struggle to differentiate between correlation and causation. we humans love our patterns so that we can make sense of existence.

[avaer]

More like a struggle to STFU about things people don't know much about. I don't think the comments are thought out at all beyond being said in reaction, or likely to get a reaction.

[boring-human]

I don't have any anecdotal data, just detecting a whiff of a possible pattern in your statement. DDoS is bots. Any chance the prevalent discourse is bots? "I ain't saying she a gold digger..."

[pjc50]

Perhaps underestimating how much the bsky audience absolutely hate AI.

It's funny how closely bsky has replicated the dynamic of old Twitter where the people who run it and the people who use it have completely different priorities and loathe each other.

[lxgr]

Maybe I’m in a very atypical corner of Bluesky, but I can’t say I’ve seen more than average anti-AI sentiment.

Also worth considering that there is a lot of anti-AI sentiment outside of our bubble! Maybe not a majority, but the minority is very vocal.

[anonymousab]

It turns out that this was, in fact, the case. They DDOS'd themselves, with a deployment of their own code - something they have separately claimed is "99% AI written" these days.

[minimaxir]

Source? Bluesky has not published a RCA yet and they said the would on April 20: https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3mjprnr5ptk2m

There is apparently a blog post going around but I am blocked by the person who posted it. I would still wait for the RCA. (EDIT: this is the blog post, it's about an outage a week ago, and does not mention AI: https://pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/april-2026-outage-post-mortem-2... )

[malshe]

I am not surprised. People on Bluesky are so blatantly anti-AI.

[jasonvorhe]

Would be funny if this nonsense came mostly from bots to distract from the fact that Bluesky isn't decentralized and thus easier to take out.

[grishka]

Theoretically, if the backend code is optimized enough, a DDoS attempt wouldn't lead to a denial of service since all those requests would just get served as normal. And as long as the network isn't the bottleneck, which it probably is in most cases.

[Manfred]

DDoS saturates the network, not the service. Even a box doing nothing would still be unreachable.

[pixel_popping]

Not true, a well done DDoS targets also underlying services (example hitting most consuming DB writes).

[junon]

There are multiple kinds of ddos attacks targeting different levels of infrastructure. Idk how anyone can say absolutely that a ddos works in one specific way.

[walletdrainer]

A well done DDoS gets the target depeered :)