Bluesky rolls out an in-app video and music player and a new ‘hide post’ feature

Decentralized social community Bluesky is rolling out a brand new in-app video and music participant for hyperlinks, together with a brand new “cover put up” characteristic. The brand new additions carry Bluesky’s person expertise nearer to X (Twitter).

The brand new video and music participant works with YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Twitch embeds. In contrast to 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 observe or hearken to the content material, they must set off it with a faucet.

As for the brand new “cover put up” characteristic, you may click on on it if there’s one thing you don’t need to see once more. The put up can be eliminated out of your feeds and “put behind a masks in the event you go to it straight,” Bluesky says.

Along with these new options, Bluesky has fastened a bug that brought about muted and blocked account listings to indicate as empty. The social community additionally fastened a problem that may trigger an empty residence display, together with a crash bug that may generally happen whereas interacting with threads.

At present’s announcement comes just a few 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 may learn posts via 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 earlier this yr 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’s going to ultimately operate as a extra open social community like Mastodon the place customers can decide and select which servers to hitch and transfer their accounts round at will.