Mastodon was hit by a 'major' DDoS attack that briefly took down parts of the service

Mastodon’s mastodon.social server was hit by a major DDoS attack that briefly made parts of the service inaccessible.

The platform said countermeasures restored access and that recovery is now underway.

The outage hit Mastodon’s largest server and, after a recent Bluesky DDoS incident, heightened concerns about decentralized social platform stability.