BlueSky has been a social network that I’ve been mildly curious about, as someone who abandoned posting to Twitter/X when Elon took over, this seemed like an interesting alternative. However, as time has gone on it isn’t something I’ve been active on. My records show that I first dipped into the network in July 2025.

On March 28th 2026, I received the following from BlueSky:

“Hi there,

We found suspicious activity on your Bluesky account that suggests someone else may have accessed it without your permission. To keep your account safe, we’ve temporarily suspended it.

What happened: Our security systems detected unusual patterns that typically indicate an account has been hacked or compromised.”

My initial reaction was “that’s weird, I’ve barely used it, but fair enough” and let the email sit for some more time. Given we’re in an age where it’s difficult not to get compromised, it didn’t come as a shock to me. It could even be me randomly checking it after a long time inactive, but I can’t quite remember.

Fast forward to today (May 9th 2026) and I was thinking about making a post linking to this very site, so I followed the instructions in the email to contact the team to “appeal” the decision, which was met with this response:

“Hi there,

Thank you for your follow-up. Your account is still under review, and at this time, we don’t have any new updates to share.

We understand this delay can be frustrating, and we’ll contact you as soon as we have more information.”

Interesting…

So in effect, my account has been suspended for 42 days (as of writing) because something looked like an external party may have attempted to access it and for my protection, it’s under review until… sometime. That’s one heck of a temporary suspension!

That’s like a bank freezing your card because they suspect fraud, then telling you they’ll give you your card back at some point in the future… Thanks!

No ETA.

No detailed reason.

No “log out of everything” button.

No password reset/2FA check.

No BlueSky.

Update: Protection period over, apparently

Three days after posting this, I received an email from Bluesky that looked very much like a password reset/account recovery email.

So I followed it, reset the password, and somehow, after 45 days of being protected from my own account, I’m back in.

I’m glad it’s resolved, obviously. But it still leaves the weird part hanging there: if the answer was a password reset, why wasn’t that the first thing offered when the account was suspended? Why did “temporary” mean over a month? And why did it take long enough for me to write an entire blog post about it?

Still, credit where it’s due. The account is back.

No ETA became an email.
No password reset became a password reset.
No Bluesky became Bluesky again.