Social community Bluesky has launched a brand new replace to its app that features a separate mentions tab in notifications, protections in opposition to username squatting, and new controls for replies sorting.
The firm introduced that it’s including a brand new mentions tab with the v1.96 rollout to allow you to see these posts individually. Until now, all notifications had been beneath one tab.
Bluesky can also be including safety in opposition to username squatting by reserving your unique Bluesky username with (.bsky.social suffix) whenever you change your username to a customized area. The platform mentioned it solely reserves the newest Bluesky username, and it doesn’t expire.
A current incident has proven that the corporate has confronted issues with impersonation when folks purchase up domains and reserve usernames with the names of recognized individuals who won’t be on the platform but. People additionally used to create a separate account whereas switching to a customized area to forestall somebody from taking their unique Bluesky username.
Bluesky can also be including a option to show replies beneath a submit. Users can select between linear and threaded views. They may kind replies utilizing totally different filters like sizzling, oldest, latest, most-liked, and random.
The social community, which has crossed 25 million customers, can also be including new translation language assist for Nepali, Khmer, and Romanian.
