The ability to mute notifications on your Threads posts is now available to everyone. Quote controls have also fully rolled out, allowing you to remove unwanted reshares of your posts (you can always limit who can quote you when you post).
I’m proud that the team is working on features like these to help keep Threads a positive place and give you more control of your experience. Try these out, and let me know what you think in the replies.
Last week my eight year told me, in a heartfelt effort to cheer me up, “you’re not that bad a dad.” Last night he told me he had some feedback for me and proceeded to deliver it gently.
We’re starting to test a new web experience on threads.net that lets you pin separate columns for your favorite searches, tags, accounts, saved posts, and notifications. If you’re in the test, please let us know what you think 🙏🏼
In an effort to make it easier to find timely, relevant content on Threads, we’re introducing a Recent tab for your searches. Search results here are still evaluated for quality, but you can now see them in chronological order.
As a reminder, your Following feed is also in chronological order, so you’ll always see the most recent posts first in that feed as well.
FYI we recently rolled out the ability for our third-party fact-checking partners to review and rate false content on Threads. Previously, we matched near-identical false content on Threads based on what was fact-checked on Facebook and Instagram. Now fact-checkers can rate Threads content on its own.
Interviewed @ezee about her experience as a creator and what advice she has for other creators out there. This is the first of a series of interviews, which is a new format that I’m trying out, feedback welcome 🙏🏼
The ability to limit who can quote your Threads posts is now available to everyone. You can allow quotes from everyone on Threads, only the people you follow, or disable quote posts entirely. I hope this will help keep Threads a more positive place and give people more control over their experience. If you’ve been using this feature, would love to hear your thoughts.
Smaller creators historically haven’t gotten their fair share of reach on Instagram, and we want to change that. So we’re making some changes to how we rank recommendations to give smaller creators a better chance of breaking through. We are rolling this out slowly but hope smaller creators start to see the benefits over the coming months.
I posted about some major changes to ranking that will affect both craters and aggregators this morning: we’ve started to replace a post that we’re recommending with the original one, if we can find it, and we are going to stop recommending posts from aggregators over the next few months. We doing plan to demote posts from any aggregators you follow.
@mosseri@pcottle this seems like a good idea, and should cut down on the amount of scam accounts and “aggregator" accounts that take people's creative works without the creators' permission.
Today on Threads, we’re expanding Hidden Words, which until now only were applied to replies, so you can filter out unwanted content from feeds, search, profiles, and post replies on Threads. We’re also testing ways to select who can quote you and the ability to mute notifications on your posts. I hope these features give you more control over your experience on Threads and help keep it a place for positive conversation. Let me know what you think, especially if you’re in the tests.
We’re starting to test the option to archive posts with a small number of people. You can do this manually, for individual posts, or choose to automatically archive all posts after a certain period of time. If you want to make your post public again, you can always unarchive it whenever you’d like. I ran a poll white back and the resounding feedback was not to make this the default, so we’re gonna try it as an option.
Excited to see this launch today. Meta AI is now integrated into search and is expanding to more counties in English so more people can use it on Instagram.
@kingrat@mosseri I ditched Facebook a while back, but I may have to stop following Threads engineers if they continue to promote Meta AI. I'm not interested in (a) Meta marketing or (b) AI - I'm really only interested in how well Threads federates with ActivityPub.