Oh bother! I can find a post I just made, then reply to it, but damned if I can find my own reply to reply to that. I see other people doing chains of replies, but damned if I can *find* how they do it.
Maybe they are in my "feed", but that's too much of a firehose for me to want to look there.

I made another brief visit to Bluesky, triggered by yet another person I know in RL joining up. I still don't "get" it, but I did find what appear to be replies to my posts, and replied to a reply that was more than a year old.

The short message length limit is supposed to be a feature, but not being able to post a whole paragraph at a time seems to me to guarantee both trivia (in the feed) and frustration (in my own posts). E.g. my prev post omitted a key point to get under the character limit.

I'm still having major trouble with the web interface, and failing to understand the whole point of "feeds" full of short trivia. I check in every few months, sometimes try to add another acquaintance who's told me their bluesky nick - often failing at that task - and then go away again.

Is there any way to respond to someone who follows you, or for that matter to send a communication to some specific user of this service, other than (1) following them (they get notified) or (2) leaving an unrelated reply to a random post they made? Is this something everyone knows from Twitter?

I expect BlueSky to be an interesting adventure for me. I was never on Twitter, so there's plenty I don't already know about how this works.

True to my nature, I've found 2 1/2 bugs so far, but not yet determined either how to report them or whether such reports would be welcome.