The Blues continue to enhance their video capabilities. The app adds support for uploading up to 3 minutes, a significant extension compared to the previous one-minute limit. This change should make Blues’ video creators more flexible in what they can post. Fans of the new blues-based photo and video app may also appreciate it.
The update also brings some much-needed inbox management tools to Bluesky DMS and adds a new “Request” section for incoming messages for users you don’t know. Now you can also reject incoming chats, which should help reduce the number of incoming users that has flooded many users’ inboxes in recent weeks.
The latest Bluesky update launches CEO Jay Graber on SXSW, with a keynote on the growing decentralized social media platform that has a service life of less than 33 million. Graber wore a T-shirt with the Latin slogan “Mundus sine caesaribus” (a world without Caesars) – apparently Mark Zuckerberg’s affinity for the Roman Empire was clearly an inspired game in the Roman Empire – talking about why Blueuesky is “billionaire’s range” compared to other apps.
“If a billionaire comes in and buys Bruinsky or takes over it, or I decide tomorrow to change things in a way that people really don’t like, then they can fork and keep using another application,” she said. “This openness ensures that there is always the ability to move to new alternatives, but still using the same network. The ecosystem is much less tolerant.”
She also revealed how the Blues think about their business models and generative AI. On the business side, she said, the company is “exploring subscriptions” and providing paid “developer services” to people who build experience on the Blues. She also said the company is considering how to eventually turn some of its features, such as temperance services or custom feeds, into a “market” that the company may cut potential deals.
On the large language model, she said the company “works with some partners to develop a user-consent framework that allows them to hopefully use data for generating AI.”
