On Monday, Bluesky introduced three updates to reinforce notifications, permitting customers to personalize their expertise whereas decluttering their notification middle and decreasing pointless alerts.
The updates embrace the power to obtain exercise notifications for particular accounts, in addition to choices to regulate notification preferences to manage which alerts you obtain. As an example, customers can select to be notified solely when sure accounts reply to them amongst different choices.
Bluesky customers can now navigate to Settings after which Notifications to customise alerts for varied interactions, together with new followers, likes, replies, mentions, quotes, and reposts. There’s additionally an “All the things Else” possibility, which covers common notifications, akin to when somebody joins via a Starter Pack or verification alerts.
Every possibility could be custom-made to use solely to accounts they observe or to everybody, and may also be disabled completely.
Moreover, customers can now obtain notifications when somebody likes their repost or reposts content material they’ve shared. This function is particularly helpful for individuals who primarily reshare posts quite than create authentic content material, serving to them really feel extra engaged.
Bluesky mentioned the earlier “precedence notifications” function has been changed. That function allowed customers to filter notifications to obtain updates solely from accounts they observe. To realize the identical end result, customers should change reply, point out, and quote notifications to “folks you observe solely.”
The brand new exercise notification function resembles these discovered on platforms like X and Threads, permitting customers to decide on to be notified each time an account posts one thing new or replies to a submit.
To allow this function, go to a profile and faucet the bell icon subsequent to the observe button to obtain notifications each time that account publishes a brand new submit. There’s additionally a separate possibility for reply notifications.
Customers can handle their exercise notifications in settings, eradicating accounts from their listing in the event that they not want to obtain updates.
One caveat is that accounts can disable this function completely, which means customers could not be capable to activate exercise notifications for each account they want to observe. Account house owners can even allow exercise notifications for under the folks they observe.
