Bluesky customers can customise their notifications, together with exercise alerts from their favourite accounts
On Monday, Bluesky introduced three updates to reinforce notifications, permitting customers to personalize their expertise whereas decluttering their notification middle and lowering pointless alerts.
The updates embrace 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 numerous interactions, together with new followers, likes, replies, mentions, quotes, and reposts. There’s additionally an “Every thing Else” possibility, which covers basic notifications, reminiscent of 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 totally.
Moreover, customers can now obtain notifications when somebody likes their repost or reposts content material they’ve shared. This characteristic is very helpful for individuals who primarily reshare posts slightly than create unique content material, serving to them really feel extra engaged.
Bluesky stated the earlier “precedence notifications” characteristic has been changed. That characteristic allowed customers to filter notifications to obtain updates solely from accounts they observe. To attain the identical end result, 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 every time an account posts one thing new or replies to a publish.
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 publish. There’s additionally a separate possibility for reply notifications.
Customers can handle their exercise notifications in settings, eradicating accounts from their checklist in the event that they now not want to obtain updates.
One caveat is that accounts can disable this characteristic totally, that means customers could not be capable of activate exercise notifications for each account they want to observe. Account house owners can even allow exercise notifications for less than the folks they observe.