Mastodon, the open source, decentralized alternative to X (formerly Twitter), is rolling out a handful of new features, including refreshed notifications, new discovery tools, as well as an updated look. Although some of these changes were available in nightly releases, they are now officially rolling out in a stable release.

Notifications on Mastodon will now look somewhat similar to how they do on X, as the social network is introducing notification grouping. That means you’ll be able to better understand your notifications if your posts are gaining traction. Instead of seeing a notifications page with hundreds of individual notifications for the same post, you will now see a summary of how many people boosted or liked it.

Mastodon is also launching a new system for filtering unwanted notifications. You can decide how, or if, you want to receive notifications from people you don’t follow, who aren’t following you, recently created accounts, or unsolicited private mentions.

For instance, you can choose to never see notifications for unsolicited private mentions, or choose to have them go to a special inbox that you can view whenever you want. While Mastodon’s private mentions aren’t as protected as X’s Direct Messages, this will still offer more high-profile users who receive a lot of inbounds a better way to filter out unwanted requests.