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Are you going to pay the freight for videos you consume, or for videos you post? Which one? (There is no third option.)
by eropple 3y ago
Are 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.