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Update: May 18, 2026 (9:06 PM ET): Bluesky appears to be back online. The status site states that service has been restored and is being monitored.
Original article: May 18, 2026 (8:21 PM ET): If you’re having trouble accessing the social media platform Bluesky, you’re not alone. Both the website and app appear to be experiencing widespread issues at the moment.
Thousands of users are flocking to Downdetector to report that Bluesky is experiencing an outage. It appears that the reports started around 6:00 PM ET, and the numbers have been climbing ever since. At the time of writing, there are over 5,000 reports claiming that the website and the app are down.
Over on the site’s status page, Bluesky has acknowledged that there is an issue. according to the data the page, it is experiencing “elevated error rates across PDS instances.” The good news is that Bluesky is investigating the problem, so it shouldn’t take long to get the platform back up and running.
Android Authority will keep an eye on the situation. We will update this article when Bluesky is back online.
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