Decentralized social community Bluesky is rolling out a brand new in-app video and music participant for hyperlinks, together with a brand new “cover submit” function. The brand new additions convey Bluesky’s consumer expertise nearer to X (Twitter).
The brand new video and music participant works with YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Twitch embeds. Not like on X, the place autoplay on movies is the default setting, Bluesky’s in-app participant gained’t autoplay content material. If customers watch to look at or take heed to the content material, they should set off it with a faucet.
As for the brand new “cover submit” function, you possibly can click on on it if there’s one thing you don’t need to see once more. The submit will likely be eliminated out of your feeds and “put behind a masks should you go to it instantly,” Bluesky says.
Along with these new options, Bluesky has mounted a bug that triggered muted and blocked account listings to indicate as empty. The social community additionally mounted a problem that might trigger an empty residence display screen, together with a crash bug that might generally happen whereas interacting with threads.
At this time’s announcement comes a number of days after Bluesky lastly began permitting customers take a look at posts on its platform with out logging in. You continue to want an invitation to create an account and begin posting, however you possibly can learn posts by a hyperlink. With this transfer, publishers can hyperlink to or embed Bluesky posts in blogs. Plus, customers can now share Bluesky posts in particular person or group chats.
Bluesky, which launched its iOS and Android apps again in February, hit 2 million customers final month. Whereas Bluesky is at the moment the one occasion on the AT Protocol, it’s aiming for federation “early subsequent yr,” which suggests it would finally perform as a extra open social community like Mastodon the place customers can choose and select which servers to hitch and transfer their accounts round at will.