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 could be linear, which means they present up one submit after one other, or threaded, which suggests they are going to seem in indented threads (type of like how they seem on Reddit). You can too type replies by latest, oldest, most-liked, “scorching,” and “random” (which Bluesky additionally calls “Poster’s Roulette”).
If you happen to select to set a customized area as your username, with 1.96, Bluesky can even reserve your outdated .bsky.social title in order that it could’t be picked up by another person. I want this function had been out there once I set my customized area — once I did that, I made an alt account that’s parked on my outdated .bsky.social title in order that it doesn’t get taken.