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 indicates an issue affecting performance is currently 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 the Bluesky team has 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,...
