Bluesky Now Has A Mentions Tab In Your Notifications Area

Bluesky now has a circumstantial tab for mentions successful your notifications arsenic information of nan app’s just-released 1.96 update. With nan mentions tab, it’s overmuch easier to spot your replies aliases conversations you’ve been tagged successful connected nan platform.

Speaking of replies, update 1.96 lets you easy entree settings that fto you powerfulness really replies connected posts look to you. Replies tin beryllium linear, meaning they show up 1 position aft another, aliases threaded, which intends they will look successful indented threads (kind of for illustration really they look connected Reddit). You tin too benignant replies by newest, oldest, most-liked, “hot,” and “random” (which Bluesky too calls “Poster’s Roulette”).

If you return to group a civilization domain arsenic your username, pinch 1.96, Bluesky will too reserve your aged .bsky.social punishment truthful that it can’t beryllium picked up by personification else. I wish this characteristic had been disposable erstwhile I group my civilization domain — erstwhile I did that, I made an alt narration that’s parked connected my aged .bsky.social punishment truthful that it doesn’t get taken.

Bluesky saw a surge of caller users successful November, and though maturation has slowed arsenic of late, nan level surpassed 25 cardinal afloat users past week. The institution plans to motorboat a subscription work early adjacent twelvemonth and, astatine immoderate point, its ain costs platform.

And nan level has immoderate ample title from Meta’s Threads, which seems to beryllium doing everything it tin to punctual group that it tin vessel tons of features and that it’s overmuch larger than Bluesky.