Bluesky is rolling out some updates to reinforce its notifications system, providing customers of the social media platform and X (Twitter) rival a extra customizable alerts expertise.
First, there is a new Exercise Notifications that allows you to obtain alerts just for particular accounts, which is beneficial if you wish to preserve updated with a specific buddy, model, or media outlet – like MacRumors, as an illustration.
Enabling this characteristic is much like the way it works on X: go to a profile and faucet the bell icon to obtain notifications each time that account publishes a brand new publish.
In the meantime, as a part of wider notification desire updates, customers can now decide to obtain notifications solely when sure accounts reply to them.
Different new choices additionally embrace particular person alert customizations for brand spanking new followers, likes, replies, mentions, quotes, and reposts. Every choice will be set to use solely to accounts the consumer follows or to everybody, or they are often disabled totally.
Bluesky mentioned that its earlier “precedence notifications” characteristic has been eliminated. This characteristic let customers obtain notifications solely from accounts they observe. To duplicate this conduct now, customers have to manually set their reply, point out, and quote notifications to “folks you observe solely.”
Bluesky has over 34 million lively customers, in response to the corporate. That is nonetheless so much lower than Meta’s Threads in whole customers, however the platform continues to realize recognition as an alternative choice to X.
