Threads customers can now exert extra management over who can quote their posts.
This builds on a characteristic that already permits Threads customers to restrict who can reply to their posts (competing companies like X and Bluesky provide comparable reply controls). Threads outlined its plans for quote controls final month, and final night time Adam Mosseri — who leads each Threads and Instagram for father or mother firm Meta — introduced that the characteristic is on the market to all customers.
“I hope this will help keep Threads a more positive place and give people more control over their experience,” Mosseri wrote.
As of Saturday morning, the flexibility to restrict quotes isn’t exhibiting up after I log into Threads on my desktop internet browser, however it’s accessible within the Threads cellular app. Quote and reply controls look like bundled collectively in a single dropdown menu, the place customers can open the dialog to “Anyone,” or restrict it to “Profiles you follow” or “Mentioned only.” These controls ought to make it tougher to “dunk” on others, the place customers quote another person’s put up with the intention to make them look dumb.
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“But dunking is good!” you say. “I need to be able to tell my followers when someone on X/Threads/Bluesky/Mastodon has posted something dumb, offensive, or stupid.”
Truthful sufficient: Once I’m not the one being destroyed, I take pleasure in a great dunk as a lot as anybody. Fortunately, the flexibility to screenshot and share somebody’s put up whereas explaining why it’s dumb/offensive/in any other case objectionable nonetheless exists. This simply makes it much less probably {that a} succession of dunks will make the unique put up go viral.
And it implies that in idea, the unique poster can scroll on, blissfully unaware that somebody on the web may be saying imply issues about them.
