Bluesky now has a mentions tab in your notifications area

Bluesky now has a particular tab for mentions in your notifications as a part of the app’s just-released 1.96 update. 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 enables 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 submit after one other, or threaded, which implies they are going to seem in indented threads (type of like how they seem on Reddit). You can too kind replies by latest, oldest, most-liked, “scorching,” and “random” (which Bluesky additionally calls “Poster’s Roulette”).

For those who select to set a custom domain as your username, with 1.96, Bluesky can even reserve your previous .bsky.social title in order that it could possibly’t be picked up by another person. I want this function had been obtainable 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.