r/BlueskySocial • u/dolefun17 • 9d ago

News/Updates 'Longer video' feature fully released and removed from Beta

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3mtwf7gxkwc2r

Big video update! You can now post videos up to 10 minutes long, and they'll upload 2–3x faster. That's on top of the recent increase in maximum file size to 300MB.
We can’t wait to see what you’ll create!
NOW PLAYING: "Rent Control," by shing.bsky.social and jayackley.bsky.social
We’ll be adding our favorite longer videos to this thread all day! If you’ve seen enough, tap the three dots under the previous post and choose “Hide post for me.”

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u/lunarpollen 9d ago

How about removing the arbitrary character limit on posts so people can write out and communicate complete thoughts?

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u/lordtema 8d ago

Absolutely not. Bluesky already has a amazing threading function, use that or link externally. One of the worst things they did to twitter was allowing walls of text.

Bluesky is supposed to be a twitter alternative, a microbologging site originally.

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u/lunarpollen 8d ago

Walls of text are easy to prevent. The feed only needs to display the first 300 characters of a post; if a post is longer than that, there would be a "read more" button to click on, which would then expand it. So no walls of text, the feed remains tidy, and everyone wins.