Bluesky provides movies to the platform to tackle Elon Musk’s X

Bluesky has launched the one main characteristic that was lacking from the platform, preserving it from being a complete alternative for Elon Musk’s X for social media customers.

On Wednesday, Bluesky introduced that it has lastly added native video to the location. Bluesky customers can now add movies on to the platform to embed of their posts.

“Bluesky now has video!” the platform’s official account posted. “Replace your app to model 1.91 or refresh on desktop! We’ve begun steadily rolling out the flexibility to put up video. Thanks in your persistence!”

Bluesky had promised that the long-requested characteristic was on the best way in an replace final month. On Tuesday, the official Bluesky account warned customers that they may see video posts present up on their feed as they examined native video and put the “closing touches” on the characteristic.

Simply at some point later, Bluesky’s video characteristic is now reside throughout the platform for all customers.

Bluesky’s video characteristic particulars

As a model new characteristic, there are some limitations to video uploads on Bluesky as additional detailed in a put up by the corporate. 

In response to Bluesky, every video will be as much as 60 seconds lengthy, and posts can solely include one video. Customers can presently add 25 movies or 10GB of video per day. Bluesky says it could tweak these limits sooner or later. Video uploads assist .mp4, .mpeg, .webm, and .mov file varieties. 

Bluesky says customers can add subtitles to their movies in addition to labels, comparable to ones that denote grownup content material. Movies may also auto-play by default, though Bluesky says auto-play will be turned off in Settings.

Customers might be required to confirm their e-mail tackle earlier than importing movies in the event that they have not already. The platform additionally shared content material moderation particulars and famous that every video might be scanned for content material that requires a warning, or unlawful content material that must be eliminated fully, comparable to baby intercourse abuse materials.

Bluesky takes on Elon Musk’s X

Since buying X, previously referred to as Twitter, Musk has pushed onerous for a pivot to video on the platform.

Some customers in search of an X alternative on account of Musk’s management discovered a brand new residence in Bluesky. Nevertheless, the dearth of native video on the platform was a standard frustration amongst new Bluesky customers.

By launching video options, Bluesky has solved this drawback. And it could not have come at a greater time. Final week, Bluesky shared that it had gained 3 million new customers in only one week because of Musk’s feud with Brazil’s Supreme Court docket and X’s subsequent ban within the nation.