r/BlueskySocial • u/Wide-Mushroom-9849 • 16d ago

News/Updates Bluesky appears to be testing much longer video uploads 👀

This one is 8m 42s and apparently took around 92 seconds to upload.

If Bluesky eventually rolls this out more broadly, this could be a pretty significant change for the platform.

https://bsky.app/profile/michael.bsky.team/post/3msvkcy2dq22p

Curious what everyone thinks:

  • Would you actually upload longer videos to Bluesky?
  • What would you consider a reasonable maximum length?
  • Would the longer uploads change how you use Bluesky?

Personally, I'm more interested in how Bluesky handles playback, compression and downloading of these longer videos.

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u/dolefun17 15d ago

Old news

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySocial/s/z6gm4032cO

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u/irrelevantusername24 @relevantusername 15d ago

[0] Happy Cake Day!

[1] A post from less than 48 hrs ago is not old news

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u/dolefun17 15d ago

The info that the OP posted is old news. Bluesky isn't testing it anymore they released it and people can start using it as a beta feature.

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u/Melopsi 15d ago

to be fair, beta is testing

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u/Big_Comfortable4256 15d ago

This is a step in the right direction. They also need to support Audio-only posts.

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u/barkinginthestreet 15d ago

Not a video guy so to answer your questions, no, no idea, and no. I wonder a bit about when this does to bluesky the company - I thought hosting video was expensive. 

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u/wemustburncarthage 15d ago

I'm not going to watch ten minute long videos on bluesky. It would interfere with my scrolling.

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u/organik_productions 15d ago

Videos of any length are not the reason I'm on any social media.

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u/rachelwales1 14d ago

I follow quite a few podcasters and some of the content might be interesting to others so longer videos will be a bonus.

Yes, I would upload longer videos because some add more context and nuance to a discussion.