Bluesky now has a mentions tab in your notifications space Leave a comment

Bluesky now has a selected tab for mentions in your notifications as a part of the app’s just-released 1.96 replace. With the mentions tab, it’s a lot simpler to see your replies or conversations you’ve been tagged in on the platform.

Talking of replies, replace 1.96 permits you to simply entry settings that allow you to management how replies on posts seem to you. Replies may be linear, which means they present up one put up after one other, or threaded, which implies they are going to seem in indented threads (type of like how they seem on Reddit). You may as well kind replies by latest, oldest, most-liked, “scorching,” and “random” (which Bluesky additionally calls “Poster’s Roulette”).

In the event you select to set a customized area as your username, with 1.96, Bluesky will even reserve your previous .bsky.social title in order that it might probably’t be picked up by another person. I want this function had been accessible once I set my customized area — once I did that, I made an alt account that’s parked on my previous .bsky.social title in order that it doesn’t get taken.