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Bluesky has implemented its new videos section and you can sort through the network to watch videos if you prefer to do so. You can also customize this feature if you don’t want to see the videos on your feed.
The announcements were made late on Jan. 19 ahead of the short-lived US TikTok ban. "We had to get in on the video action, too," said Bluesky. The decentralized platform’s video feed is accessible from the Search tab on its mobile app. Here, users will find a new "Trending Videos" section, which they can pin to make it appear on the home screen or add to their list of feeds.
Since this is a custom video feed, standard feeds and posts "that contain video don’t automatically enter you into a video timeline," Bluesky says.
On Bluesky’s video feed, you can swipe up to move on to the next video and use a single tap to pause it. Alongside the regular buttons to like, share, comment on, and repost a video, you get a three-dot menu that opens up options to copy or translate the caption, mute the thread, words, or tags, or just tell bluesky if you want to see more or less of what you just saw.
If you don’t see the new video feed, Bluesky recommends “restarting your app once or twice to let the latest changes take effect.”
The announcements were made late on Jan. 19 ahead of the short-lived US TikTok ban. "We had to get in on the video action, too," said Bluesky. The decentralized platform’s video feed is accessible from the Search tab on its mobile app. Here, users will find a new "Trending Videos" section, which they can pin to make it appear on the home screen or add to their list of feeds.
Since this is a custom video feed, standard feeds and posts "that contain video don’t automatically enter you into a video timeline," Bluesky says.
On Bluesky’s video feed, you can swipe up to move on to the next video and use a single tap to pause it. Alongside the regular buttons to like, share, comment on, and repost a video, you get a three-dot menu that opens up options to copy or translate the caption, mute the thread, words, or tags, or just tell bluesky if you want to see more or less of what you just saw.
If you don’t see the new video feed, Bluesky recommends “restarting your app once or twice to let the latest changes take effect.”