Bluesky now lets you upload 10-minute long videos
- ID
- 18114
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 26 Aug 2026, 9:12 PM
- Fetched
- 26 Aug 2026, 9:35 PM
- Provider
- TechCrunch
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/bluesky-now-lets-you-upload-10-minute-long-videos/
- Source URL
- https://techcrunch.com/feed/
Summary
- Score
- 3.0
- Created
- 26 Aug 2026, 9:36 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developers
What happened
Bluesky raised its video upload limit from 3 minutes to 10 minutes, with a max file size of 300MB and 2x-3x faster upload speeds. The change extends to third-party apps built on the AT Protocol, such as Bluescreen, Reelo, and Skylight. The move comes as Bluesky's active user base has dropped over 25% year-over-year as of July per Similarweb data.
Why it matters
If you are building apps on the AT Protocol, your users can now consume longer video content without custom infrastructure. For everyone else, this is a competitive social-platform feature update with no direct builder impact.
Discussion angle
Whether AT Protocol's shared infrastructure model means third-party app builders automatically inherit platform-level feature changes, and what that means for differentiation.