Blueskycurrently home to the best of the “X-pats,” allows you Use your personal domain name as your username. In other words, you can change your username from “@”.prawnay.bsky.social” To “@pranayparab.comThe problem is that your old username can be claimed by anyone: if you didn’t claim it immediately after switching, someone else could take over your old username. This is inconvenient for those who use the same username on multiple social networks, especially if your account is vulnerable to identity theft.
With Bluesky 1.96the social network protects your old username if you decide to switch to your own domain name. The company says it will reserve your latest version indefinitely bsky.social Handle, so you don’t have to worry about trolls or impersonators taking over your old handle when you verify with your domain. Now that this feature is available, I will be switching my Bluesky account to my own domain name as soon as possible – without having to worry about someone stealing my original account.
Optimized notifications and other features
Photo credit: Pranay Parab
Update 1.96 also brings many other improvements to Bluesky. First, you’ll see a new “Mentions” tab on the app’s notifications page. This way you can quickly see who mentioned you in the comments and respond to them easily. The old notification interface was designed to show follows, reposts, likes and mentions on the same page.
Speaking of answers, with this latest update you can now choose how answers are displayed on Bluesky. You can choose between a linear view (default) and a threaded view, making it easier to follow multiple levels of comments. You can also sort the answers in chronological or reverse chronological order, prioritize the most popular answers, or choose a completely random order.
Finally, Bluesky is receiving unspecified visual improvements, and the service has now been translated to support three additional languages – Khmer, Nepali and Romanian.
