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Threads is introducing a new feature that will allow users to have more control over who on the platform can comment on their posts.
The platform already allows users to limit who can reply to their posts, but now they can also restrict people from using the quote feature to comment on their posts. Like Twitter, the quote functionality on Threads lets people quickly add their commentary above another message.
Instagram Head Adam Mosseri announced the quote restriction option today. It's available now for everyone, and offers three options for who can quote your posts: everyone on Threads, only people you follow, or no one.
“I hope this will help keep Threads a more positive place and give people more control over their experience,” Mosseri wrote in a Threads post.
Both Quote and Reply controls can be set on a per-post basis, so you can open up some posts while restricting others.
This doesn’t prevent people from screenshotting your post and sharing it as an image. The difference there is that sharing it as a screenshot means the original poster doesn't receive notifications about the post and its replies, which may be good or bad depending on the reaction to the original post.
X, formerly Twitter, allows users to limit who can reply to their tweets but does not offer an option to limit who can quote them.
Of course, if you’d rather limit who can see, comment, and quote everything you post on Threads, you can also make your account private, which lets you pick and choose who can see your posts.
At the moment, replying to posts is the main way to interact with people on Threads, but the app is working on a direct messaging feature. However, it will reportedly be integrated with a person's Instagram inbox rather than on Threads proper.