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Text in a screenshot reads as follows: Controls for quoting posts The Meta-owned social network already allows users to control who can reply to their posts: anyone, profiles you follow, or mentioned people only. Threads also has the option to restrict who can mention you in their posts, replies, and bio: everyone, profiles you follow, or no one. Now the company is planning to introduce similar controls for quote posts. Threads said that it will soon let you limit who can quote your posts. Additionally, users will be able to manually unquote their posts as well. The company’s rationale behind these new controls for quote posts is that it wants to restrict unwanted interactions. “Since quoting a post is one of the most visible ways to connect with someone on Threads, it was important for us to give people more agency over who can engage with them and help reduce unwanted interactions,” a company spokesperson said.

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Text in a screenshot reads as follows: Controls for quoting posts The Meta-owned social network already allows users to control who can reply to their posts: anyone, profiles you follow, or mentioned people only. Threads also has the option to restrict who can mention you in their posts, replies, and bio: everyone, profiles you follow, or no one. Now the company is planning to introduce similar controls for quote posts. Threads said that it will soon let you limit who can quote your posts. Additionally, users will be able to manually unquote their posts as well. The company’s rationale behind these new controls for quote posts is that it wants to restrict unwanted interactions. “Since quoting a post is one of the most visible ways to connect with someone on Threads, it was important for us to give people more agency over who can engage with them and help reduce unwanted interactions,” a company spokesperson said.
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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) (tokyo_0@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 20:26:32 JST Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)
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And aware, no doubt, that quote posts are a divisive, hot-button issue, they're already building into #Threads not only quote post functionality but more refined controls for it than I know of anywhere in the #Fediverse — a feature bound to attract attention and make people consider choosing Threads in preference to other Fediverse software that doesn't offer the same functionality.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/threads-launches-a-mute-feature-for-words-teases-controls-for-quote-posts/
This is all absolutely classic embrace, extend and extinguish.
#fedipact #Meta

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