Bluesky now has a mentions tab in your notifications area

Bluesky present has a circumstantial tab for mentions successful your notifications arsenic portion of the app’s just-released 1.96 update. With the mentions tab, it’s overmuch easier to spot your replies oregon conversations you’ve been tagged successful connected the platform.

Speaking of replies, update 1.96 lets you easy entree settings that fto you power however replies connected posts look to you. Replies tin beryllium linear, meaning they amusement up 1 station aft another, oregon threaded, which means they volition look successful indented threads (kind of similar however they look connected Reddit). You tin besides benignant replies by newest, oldest, most-liked, “hot,” and “random” (which Bluesky besides calls “Poster’s Roulette”).

If you take to acceptable a customized domain arsenic your username, with 1.96, Bluesky volition besides reserve your aged .bsky.social sanction truthful that it can’t beryllium picked up by idiosyncratic else. I privation this diagnostic had been disposable erstwhile I acceptable my customized domain — erstwhile I did that, I made an alt relationship that’s parked connected my aged .bsky.social sanction truthful that it doesn’t get taken.

And the level has immoderate large contention from Meta’s Threads, which seems to beryllium doing everything it tin to punctual radical that it tin ship lots of features and that it’s much larger than Bluesky.