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 embody the flexibility to obtain exercise notifications for particular accounts, in addition to choices to regulate notification preferences to regulate which alerts you obtain. As an example, customers can select to be notified solely when sure accounts reply to them.
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 “The whole lot Else” possibility, which covers common notifications, akin to when somebody joins by a Starter Pack or verification alerts.
Every possibility might be personalized to use solely to accounts they observe or to everybody, and can be disabled completely.
Moreover, customers can now obtain notifications when somebody likes their repost or reposts content material they’ve shared. This characteristic is particularly helpful for individuals who primarily reshare posts moderately than create unique content material, serving to them really feel extra engaged.
Bluesky mentioned the earlier “precedence notifications” characteristic has been changed. That characteristic allowed customers to filter notifications to obtain updates solely from accounts they observe. To realize the identical consequence, customers should change reply, point out, and quote notifications to “folks you observe solely.”
The brand new exercise notification characteristic resembles these discovered on platforms like X and Threads, permitting customers to decide on to be notified at any time when an account posts one thing new or replies to a submit.
To allow this characteristic, 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 characteristic completely, that means customers might not be capable of activate exercise notifications for each account they want to observe. Account house owners may also allow exercise notifications for under the folks they observe.
