Meta Platforms's Instagram was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Wednesday morning, according outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 6,549 incidents of people reporting issues with the platform as of 9:16 a.

Instagram is down for thousands of users, according to Downdetector. The outage detection site found that just under 10,000 people reported the social media platform was not operating normally. There was a massive spike in reports from users just before 2pm on Wednesday.

Instagram may be experiencing an outage Wednesday morning. Reports of Instagram being down have surged on downdetector.com. Instagram appeared to be down for some users Wednesday morning. Downdetector.

Thankfully, despite the fickle nature of most app users, Bluesky seems to have managed to break through and become a really promising alternative. And thanks to the fundamental nature of its open protocol, anyone can build their own apps that piggyback off the Bluesky social graph.

The platform is seeing a surge in popularity following Meta’s announcement last week that it would be drastically changing its content moderation policies; over the weekend, Pixelfed said that it’s seeing “unprecedented levels of traffic” to the pixelfed.

This is per a report from TechCrunch, covering a new project called Flashes, from third-party Bluesky developer Sebastian Vogelsang. Like Vogelsang’s earlier Skeets—an alternative fronted for accessing the open-source service via iPads,