Is Bluesky down? Heres what we know.

Emmanuelle Grady Technology 16 Apr, 2026 Americas

The X alternative is experiencing issues.

A phone shoes the Bluesky image in front of images of workers assessing power lines.

Bluesky appears to be down, with users reporting issues with the social media platform on Thursday.

Often seen as the alternative to Elon Musk's X, Bluesky was not working as usual in the early hours, with Downdetector identifying a thousand-strong spike in reported issues with the app and site around 6:30 a.m. ET. (Disclosure: DownDetector and Mashable are both owned by the same company, Ziff Davis.)

A screenshot of Bluesky outages reported on Downdetector.

Credit: Downdetector

At the time of writing, Mashable cannot access the site (we only see the Bluesky butterfly logo), and we have reached out to Bluesky for further information.

UPDATE: Apr. 16, 2026, 11:40 a.m. UTC Bluesky appears to be working again, both on the app and web, though we're still seeing loading issues.

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