# Bluesky Provides Reply Controls, Profile Search

Bluesky has added some extra Twitter-like options to its app, to make it really feel extra homely for individuals who are nonetheless on the lookout for the very best Twitter different.

First up, Bluesky has added new reply controls, so you’ll be able to select who can reply to your updates.

Faucet on the “Anyone can work together” immediate, and you’ll then select to limit your replies so you’ll be able to cease randos from hassling you with their less-than-helpful observations.

Which Twitter/X launched in 2021, and it’s a helpful choice to filter out the noise, and keep targeted on extra valued group members, and worthwhile discussions within the app.

Bluesky has additionally added profile search, so you will discover mentions from a particular consumer.

Which can be accessible on X, and it undoubtedly does make it somewhat simpler to seek for that one factor that particular person mentioned one time, that you would be able to’t fairly recall, however you realize they posted it.

It’s additionally good for checking previous references customers have made, with a view to counter their newer statements. In all probability not so nice for individuals who’ve shared controversial opinions up to now, and are actually within the public eye, however a helpful characteristic nonetheless.

Bluesky has additionally added new search enhancements and translation choices within the newest model of the app.

The app stays an fascinating mission, although I nonetheless don’t see Bluesky having the ability to recover from the vital adoption hump, and changing into an even bigger house for real-time dialogue, except there’s an enormous misstep from the most important gamers.

Bluesky is essentially the most Twitter-like app, which is smart, because it was developed by former Twitter workers, and there are some 25 million folks logging into the app recurrently. However that’s a great distance from Threads (320 month-to-month million energetic customers) and X (570 million MAU), and Bluesky‘s progress momentum has slowed in current months.

However then once more, Bluesky’s preliminary rise got here after the U.S. election, through which many discovered X to be too biased, and Threads to be insufficient as a method to comply with evolving information. In that occasion, Bluesky’s Twitter-like strategy was much more helpful, and with Meta seeking to additional align itself with the Trump administration, and X shedding floor for many, it might nonetheless be that Bluesky might win out, in protest towards the opposite two gamers.

However once more, both X or Meta would seemingly have to have a significant misstep to drive their present customers over to Bluesky as an alternative.

In that respect, I don’t assume that Bluesky can do a heap to spark an inflow of recent customers, aside from remaining current and able to settle for use migrations if and once they happen.

However 25 million continues to be an inexpensive quantity, and with many excessive profile journalists and commentators making the swap, it appears possible that Bluesky will be capable to stick round to catch these cast-offs, in the event that they occur.