Threads now allows you to handle Hidden Phrases individually from Instagram, set cut-off dates

Threads, Meta’s competitor to X, now has its personal Hidden Phrases setting that operates individually from Instagram. The characteristic permits you to filter out posts that comprise phrases, phrases, or emojis you don’t wish to see in feeds, search, profiles, and replies. 

Beforehand, Hidden Phrases was tied to Instagram, so the filters that you simply entered can be utilized to content material on each platforms. Now, you possibly can create a separate listing of Hidden Phrases on Threads to additional personalize the content material that you simply see on the platform with out impacting what you see on Instagram.

Threads additionally introduced you could now set cut-off dates for filters in situations the place you don’t wish to completely block sure phrases, phrases, or emojis. You’ve got the choice to now set filters to run out inside 30 days as a solution to “snooze” them till you wish to see the associated posts within the app once more. 

For instance, this setting might be useful in conditions the place you’re not caught up on a TV present and don’t wish to see spoilers in your feed, however wish to ultimately see posts associated to the TV present at a later level if you’re caught up.

The transfer comes two weeks after the social community started testing a DM inbox that’s separate from customers’ Instagram DM Inboxes. As we speak’s announcement and the updates to direct messages counsel that Meta could also be working to make Threads extra of an unbiased service exterior of Instagram.

As Threads continues to tackle X, the social community has been rolling out quite a few options each month. Most not too long ago, the corporate launched the power for customers to see posts from different customers on the fediverse inside a devoted feed, and seek for fediverse customers straight in Threads.

The platform can also be testing spoiler textual content, and now permits creators to make use of their Threads profiles to share hyperlinks and observe clicks.