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 lets you obtain alerts just for particular accounts, which is beneficial if you wish to hold updated with a specific buddy, model, or media outlet – like MacRumors, as an illustration.
Enabling this function 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 submit.
In the meantime, as a part of wider notification choice updates, customers can now decide to obtain notifications solely when sure accounts reply to them.
Different new choices additionally embody particular person alert customizations for brand new followers, likes, replies, mentions, quotes, and reposts. Every choice could be set to use solely to accounts the person follows or to everybody, or they are often disabled completely.
Bluesky mentioned that its earlier “precedence notifications” function has been eliminated. This function let customers obtain notifications solely from accounts they observe. To copy this habits now, customers must manually set their reply, point out, and quote notifications to “folks you observe solely.”
Bluesky has over 34 million lively customers, based on the corporate. That is nonetheless lots lower than Meta’s Threads in complete customers, however the platform continues to realize recognition as an alternative choice to X.