One factor that has been lacking from Bluesky till now was the flexibility to activate notifications for particular accounts, however now Activity Notifications are live. If you wish to know each time The Verge or ESPN, or one in all your mates posts, you may, simply by toggling the bell icon on their profile web page, together with an choice to see notifications for simply new posts or with replies included too.
It’s the type of characteristic I’ve gotten used to on different platforms, particularly Twitter, the place information breakers have been in a position to maintain their audiences up to date from minute to minute, making it simpler to comply with attention-grabbing matters or creating tales.
That goes double for sports activities, and Bluesky has referred to as growing its presence in sports discussions “a high precedence.” Thus far, ESPN reporter and Woj inheritor Shams Charania hasn’t introduced his free company protection to the platform but (to go together with X, Threads, and the ESPN app), however now that it has push notifications for particular accounts, perhaps he’ll.
One other small change is that it could possibly additionally notify folks if somebody likes or reposts one thing they’ve reposted.
After all, in case your downside is that you just’re getting too many notifications, the updates that rolled out on Monday even have one thing for you. There’s been an explosion within the quantity of granular controls out there to resolve should you’ll get updates about experiences, likes, new followers, or different exercise, and if you wish to obtain them from exercise by anybody, nobody, or simply folks you comply with. In response to a weblog put up, the straightforward “precedence notifications” toggle that was out there beforehand has been migrated to the brand new setup, so anybody who had it turned on will nonetheless solely get notifications from folks they comply with.