X/Twitter competitor knocked offline after mass exodus from Elon Musk’s site

BlueSky seems to be struggling technical issues after an exodus of customers from X, previously generally known as Twitter.

The problems come after Elon Musk, X’s proprietor, introduced that the positioning can be altering how its “block” button works. That possibility beforehand allowed customers to cover their profile from sure accounts – however will not accomplish that.

Within the wake of that change, X competitor BlueSky introduced that it had seen greater than 100,000 new signups. Nevertheless it seems to be struggling to deal with all of these new customers, with many reporting points getting on-line and logging in.

”welcome to the 100k+ individuals who have joined Bluesky within the final 12 hours!!!” the positioning’s official BlueSky account had posted earlier on Thursday. However, hours later, lots of of individuals reported issues getting on-line at monitoring web site Down Detector.

After the adjustments on X went into impact, BlueSky had used its official account there to spotlight the perform of its block button.

“At Bluesky, we take on-line security severely,” it wrote. “If you wish to block somebody, you’ll be able to! It’s your expertise to customise.”

Elon Musk has claimed the present behaviour of the block button “is mindless”. He has argued that the change is lengthy overdue and has beforehand advised that it may very well be eliminated fully.

However critics have mentioned that the change may put the positioning’s extra weak customers in danger. The block button can be utilized to cover posts from abusers, as an example, and cease them from replying.

“One of many largest features of blocking is giving ladies the power to cease bizarre males from continuously making them uncomfortable and scared,” one consumer wrote. “So in fact Elon needed to change that.”