Farewell, dunks? Threads launches quote controls for all customers

Threads customers can now exert extra management over who can quote their posts.

This builds on a function that already permits Threads customers to restrict who can reply to their posts (competing companies like X and Bluesky provide related reply controls). Threads outlined its plans for quote controls final month, and final evening Adam Mosseri — who leads each Threads and Instagram for guardian firm Meta — introduced that the function is on the market to all customers.

“I hope this may assist maintain Threads a extra constructive place and provides individuals extra management over their expertise,” 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 out there within the Threads cellular app. Quote and reply controls seem like bundled collectively in a single dropdown menu, the place customers can open the dialog to “Anybody,” or restrict it to “Profiles you observe” or “Talked about solely.” These controls ought to make it more durable to “dunk” on others, the place customers quote another person’s publish in an effort to make them look dumb.

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“However dunking is nice!” you say. “I want to have the ability to inform my followers when somebody on X/Threads/Bluesky/Mastodon has posted one thing dumb, offensive, or silly.”

Truthful sufficient: Once I’m not the one being destroyed, I get pleasure from a great dunk as a lot as anybody. Fortunately, the flexibility to screenshot and share somebody’s publish whereas explaining why it’s dumb/offensive/in any other case objectionable nonetheless exists. This simply makes it much less seemingly {that a} succession of dunks will make the unique publish go viral.

And it signifies that in idea, the unique poster can scroll on, blissfully unaware that somebody on the web may be saying imply issues about them.