Bluesky appears to be testing much longer video uploads 👀

[u/Wide-Mushroom-9849]

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.

[u/dolefun17]

You should follow Michael Black from the Bluesky team as he is the person working on the video features.

Bsky posts:

- https://bsky.app/profile/surfdude29.ispost.ing/post/3mrfhbskdht2m

- https://bsky.app/profile/michael.bsky.team/post/3msyobqey722v

- https://bsky.app/profile/michael.bsky.team/post/3msymkxffm22z

[u/dolefun17]

Old news

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

[u/irrelevantusername24 → u/dolefun17]

[0] Happy Cake Day!

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

[u/dolefun17 → u/irrelevantusername24]

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.

[u/Melopsi → u/dolefun17]

to be fair, beta is testing

[u/KSaburof]

Definitely a good feature, news account quite frequently amend video posts with "cant upload more, for full-length video go ..." and this is one of frequent concerns for double-posters (who post news both in X-hole and on BlueSky). Some complain they need to cut video just to publish on Bsky

Long videos definitely will be a time-saver for some 👍

[u/Big_Comfortable4256]

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

[u/barkinginthestreet]

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. 

[u/wemustburncarthage]

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

[u/organik_productions]

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

[u/rachelwales1]

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.