Threads has formally launched the power to manage who can cite your posts within the app, supplying you with one other degree of management over your in-app expertise.
As you’ll be able to see on this instance, now, within the choices menu of every particular person thread submit (the three dots menu on the high proper), there’s a new “Who can reply and quote” possibility within the record. Faucet on it after which you’ll be able to restrict who can quote your posts, “Anybody,” “Profiles you observe” or “Talked about solely” are your three choices.
Which is a step up from X (previously Twitter) which permits customers to restrict who can reply, however not who can quote a submit. And that may be a robust disincentive for negativity and “dunk posts” on the app, which places extra management within the fingers of every particular person person.
Thread lead Adam Mosseri introduced this replace final weekend, noting that:
“I hope it will assist maintain threads in a extra optimistic place and provides folks extra management over their expertise.”
Some customers have had entry to an early model of it for a couple of weeks, so it is probably not utterly new. However now, it is accessible to everybody, including to the rising number of management choices that Threads is constructing into its UI.
Which incorporates:
As these instruments give customers extra energy to manage their in-app expertise, and social media customers at the moment are way more versatile with their choices on this entrance, it is good to see the Threads crew prioritizing these instruments, serving to shield customers, in quite a lot of methods.
Actually, over time, an increasing number of social media conversations are transferring out of the general public house and into non-public chats, as folks wish to get away from the annoyance and scrutiny that may come of their fundamental feed. As such, the power to manage who can have interaction together with your posts is a vital consideration, and as Moseri notes, it aligns with Meta’s broader mission to make threads a extra optimistic expertise.
That is one other good transfer, which might ultimately result in Threads turning into the conversational app of alternative, as X tends to lean in direction of extra divisive arguments.
