Bluesky now has a mentions tab in your notifications space

Bluesky now has a particular 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 will be linear, which means they present up one put up after one other, or threaded, which implies they’ll seem in indented threads (type of like how they seem on Reddit). You may as well type replies by latest, oldest, most-liked, “sizzling,” and “random” (which Bluesky additionally calls “Poster’s Roulette”).

For those who select to set a customized area as your username, with 1.96, Bluesky will even reserve your previous .bsky.social identify in order that it may’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 identify in order that it doesn’t get taken.