Bluesky now has a mentions tab in your notifications area

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, that means they present up one submit after one other, or threaded, which implies they are going to seem in indented threads (sort of like how they seem on Reddit). You too can type replies by latest, oldest, most-liked, “sizzling,” and “random” (which Bluesky additionally calls “Poster’s Roulette”).

Should you select to set a customized area as your username, with 1.96, Bluesky may even reserve your outdated .bsky.social title in order that it may’t be picked up by another person. I want this characteristic had been obtainable after I set my customized area — after I did that, I made an alt account that’s parked on my outdated .bsky.social title in order that it doesn’t get taken.