I'm wondering if it was a bad idea to give all of my testing accounts the same image for the profile pic...

Tophhie Cloud Personal Data Server - Account Inactivity & Deletion Policy Effective Date: 17th March 2026

New account inactivity policy for the Tophhie PDS that I was notified about via email:
blog.tophhie.cloud/atproto-acco...

Set up another PDS acct today - this one is I think the first one to offer choice of location for the hosting server:

Another test post with a different SMM tool.

This post should go to both my main testing account and the account that's on the Blacksky PDS

Ok … maybe this is the way it always was?

Quick test to see if this ends up in my following feed … as in did I mess up another account or did I just not notice this OR did something change…

This thread is where I started testing setting up new accounts with various PDSs.

Blacksky, Tophhie and Madebydanny do not require you to have an invite or use Bluesky to start the setup process.

I have requested invites / access to a few of the private PDSs but that isn't going to be for everyone

Ok this list AND I need to revisit a lot of the tools and retest as well because more have added some community functionality that might match my needs.

I need something that does DMs for multiple accounts better too (speaking into the void and seeing if the void responds with a solution.)

Tested:
- Muted an account with an existing DM chat & message came through fine.
- Muted an account without any existing DM chat & a new message also came through fine.

Muting accounts at this time does not affect DMs.

woosh.link/testingitwit...

Yeah another thing I'm poking at.

riverside.fm/dashboard/st...

Tall grass in the wind HD version - 2025-05-23 14.12.41 This is "Tall grass in the wind HD version - 2025-05-23 14.12.41" by Hilary Baumann on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

vimeo.com/1087433715?s...

2025-05-23 14.12.41 31 sec video

fascinationdesign.wistia.com/medias/ku1k3...

2025-05-23 14.12.41 tall grass

flic.kr/p/2ru4xNM

also adding: www.hyperyapper.app
to this list ... which I haven't gotten to yet

And Sendible appears to have also added Bluesky support
27 May 2025
support.sendible.com/hc/en-us/art...

Adding:
loomly.com looks like it added bluesky
New to me: typefully.com

Reminder to self because these haven't been a high priority...
plus
vanity.blue
blueskymeter.com (though I think I've had this one bookmarked for a long time?)

Screen shot of video upload of tall grass video with an error message that says "Bluesky videos cannot be longer than 3 minutes or have a size larger than 50MB."

Publer for the same video now... I need to test it with mp4 instead of mov like I said I would before. And check my file size since these tools might not be doing any compression.

Test video from Postpone

Dangit - we are still rather pixelated there.

Testing an upload of tall grass again to see what happens with the compression. And hopefully this will look less pixelated and is what "fixed video quality on the web" meant. 😎

Uploading via web browser and not iphone app.

Screen shot that shows my hilarybaumann.com account trying to type something on bluesky about having broken someone's app except I ended up with rate limit exceeded error when trying to post.

I ended up with rate limit exceeded for the first time in awhile. I probably should have tested with this account instead AND I clearly need an alt account or two for me as a person.

test

Described in post

Finding it interesting that using different tools gets you different shaped video posts of the same content.

One platform renders as a square, another as a landscape oriented rectangle when in fact the file (and when opened full screen) is portrait oriented rectangle.

I'll continue to poke at the video tomorrow with more advanced tools. And also retry some of the SMM tools. Wondering if a few may have issues with .mov vs .mp4.

My normal test file is an mp4.

One more test for tonight Statusbrew not compressed on the computer

Tall grass video from Postflow

Tall grass video via Publer 1080p version because of the 50mb limit