Posted by Alumni from TechCrunch
May 4, 2024
This builds on a feature that already allows Threads users to limit who can reply to their posts (competing services like X and Bluesky offer similar reply controls). Threads outlined its plans for quote controls last month, and last night Adam Mosseri ' who leads both Threads and Instagram for parent company Meta ' announced that the feature is available to all users. As of Saturday morning, the ability to limit quotes isn't showing up when I log into Threads on my desktop web browser, but it is available in the Threads mobile app. Quote and reply controls appear to be bundled together in a single dropdown menu, where users can open the conversation to 'Anyone,' or limit it to 'Profiles you follow' or 'Mentioned only.' These controls should make it harder to 'dunk' on others, where users quote someone else's post in order to make them look dumb. Fair enough: When I'm not the one being destroyed, I enjoy a good dunk as much as anyone. Luckily, the ability to screenshot and share... learn more