Bluesky buckled following Twitter/X's announcement about the end of blocks – TechCrunch

Twitter, er X, competitor Bluesky buckled following Elon Musk’s announcement that X will no longer support the “block” function in favor of mutes only. Users on Bluesky were seeing issues with slow load times and the occasional error message when trying to load posts. Images and graphics were also slow to load. In addition, the site’s status page indicated an issue affecting performance was being investigated. The company has often had to deal with the influx of users when Twitter announces a particularly unwelcome change, and that could be the case here — though members of the Bluesky team have not yet confirmed what’s causing the issues at hand or whether the timing is coincidental. However, data from a source that leverages the Bluesky API to track new user registrations indicates that the decentralized social media platform has seen 5616 new registrations in the past 24 hours, compared with 536 in the 24 hours preceding this. So it could be that more people suddenly cashed in their invite codes. The Bluesky status page, meanwhile, published a message that it’s seeing degraded PDS performance, and noted “We are currently investigating this issue.” That’s not very helpful information, but the AT Protocol
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