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Wrong prio: videos and animated .gif is 100% the ONLY thing anyone at that company should be spending ANY time on.
by spintin 3y ago
Wrong prio: videos and animated .gif is 100% the ONLY thing anyone at that company should be spending ANY time on.
- weinzierl 3y agoDMs is what we need first.
- yashasolutions 3y agocan you explain the rational? DM are for private interaction. Social media are more publishing platforms (ie. Media plaftorm with a social aspect). Messaging apps allow for interpersonal interaction but they definitely don't have the same impact. Which use case do you have in mind for prioritizing DMs? Usually DMs are for sales, or harassment (which is sometime the same) If you have friends, you usually have other ways to communicate with outside of bluesky. So I am genuinely curious why you would think that DM are a priority?
- BryantD 3y agoSpeaking for myself, I’ve met three or four people on BlueSky I’d like to have a private communication channel for. I didn’t know them previously.
- Retr0id 3y agoHN doesn't have DMs either, but we usually figure things out one way or another (e.g. contact info in bio)
- weinzierl 3y agoOnly if you are willing to publish contact info in your profile. I am much more willing to open my DMs than doing that. I realize that open DMs are not an option for high profile accounts, but for most people probably safer than publishing their email or - god forbid - their phone number.
- hellojesus 3y agoAre there user profiles on Bluesky? You could make an email account just for your Bluesky dms and then write some random string on your profile and auto delete any emails that don't include that string as a sort of filter against spam. You could also post a public key there so you can have encrypted comms al la old school pgp.
- weinzierl 3y agoThe email solution I use has no lightweight account creation and regardless, I like to keep my contact surface small and additional email addresses are detrimental to that. I was happy with DMs on Twitter and I wish Bluesky had them, that's all.
- weinzierl 3y ago"Social media are more publishing platforms " That's what social media companies want them to be, but it's in our hands to decide if we use them for consumption only. I agree that DMs are often abused and not the best medium for one-on-one communication, but without DMs how would you upgrade a conversation to a more suitable medium?
- pfraze 3y agoIt’s a social communications platform. We should have DMs
- BlueTemplar 3y agoThis does seem to be a good opportunity to retire the obsolete and wasteful .gif format ? (Or maybe at least limit it to maximum pixel area ?) But you just meant looping animations, right ?
- spintin 3y ago.gif is better than video if you have a small area that changes on the picture frame by frame. .gif can handle transparency. .gif will never be obsolete. Also dithering is an aesthetic!
- Retr0id 3y agoGIFs can be highly optimised for tiny simple animations, but 99.9% of the GIFs that people actually want to send are not in that category. webm (for example) can handle transparency too, has cross-platform support, and better compression ratios than GIF for anything remotely video-like.
- rchaud 3y agoGIF is only wasteful if it's used as a substitute for video.
- edflsafoiewq 3y agoWhich it largely is.
- consumer451 3y agoBoth videos and gifs are currently handled by media players, which is honestly just fine for me. Hashtags help a lot with discovery, which imo is the correct priority.
- spintin 3y agoAdd link card? Ok buddy!
- mattgreenrocks 3y agoOh cool, another platform that optimizes for dopamine above all else! Definitely a fresh take on social media.
- hoosieree 3y agoCome hang out on the [redacted] social network: - you're required to post at least 1 video every day or the platform doxes you automatically - video content autoplays with audio - surge pricing - every video within the viewport autoplays, with audio - the audio volume of each video is based on its trending score - posts disappear unless you share it within a (random/variable) time limit - no video longer than 4 seconds - LOWERCASE GETS YOU BANNED - dark mode for premium subscribers [redacted] Social: we were worst first.
- chomp 3y agoNo, they need DMs. They have embedded videos, autoplaying videos and gifs are tacky.
- BryantD 3y agoComing soon hopefully, says one of the lead devs: https://bsky.app/profile/pauljessup.com/post/3kmkrhnupd726 https://bsky.app/profile/pauljessup.com/post/3kmkrhnupd726
- Retr0id 3y agoThe post you linked is not from one of the lead devs, and from what I hear DMs are pretty far down the roadmap but I don't have a reference on-hand.
- snorremd 3y agoConsidering the entire protocol design I don't think DMs will be that easy to implement. They'd need some form of asymmetric key encryption scheme for personal data servers and messages would then need to be read directly from the relevant personal data servers as the app view servers would not have the necessary user private keys to decrypt stuff. Will be interesting to see how they solve it for sure. But as you point out, probably far down the road map.
- pfraze 3y agoThat’s about right. It only gets really daunting if we decide to do e2ee, which we’d really like to do but have to decide if we can afford to spend that kind of time. Might be smarter to just make signal username sharing btwn users easier in the short term.
- BryantD 3y agoDamn it, my miss. Thank you for the correction.
- eropple 3y agoAre you going to pay the freight for videos you consume, or for videos you post? Which one? (There is no third option.)
- muglug 3y agoExactly. Every video has to be transcoded on upload, then stored for both fast delivery and then shifted to long-lived-but-cheaper storage after a set time period. There’s nothing trivial about it. The only reason to give it away for free is if that allows them to ship the app with video-based ads — but it’s pretty much impossible for advertising to coexist with a decentralised messaging protocol. And as a regular Bluesky user, I don’t miss gifs or video — it massively reduces the mindless attribution-free reposting of popular TikTok videos you see on Twitter, IG and (now increasingly) Threads.
- spintin 3y agoI'm perfectly prepared to do that as I did yesterday with Add Link Card BUT I need bluesky to SHOW the damn .gif and not have users have to click on a URL!!! It's a one second change.
- phpnode 3y agocompanies can often do more than one thing at once...