it works if you comment.

like this - now it shows up in your notifs.

there’s no actual tagging function, though.

I completely understand what was said - that is not the problem. I’m well aware.

The problem is that I misread the issue I linked to.

My comment has since been edited.

*crickets* Nope. Not wrong.

You could’ve ended that sentence with another word and it would still be accurate.

And that’s all I’m sayin’.

Just a suggestion, you might want to insert the word “allegedly” somewhere in there because Meta is refuting that assertion.

“To be clear: ‘No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing” - Andy Stone, Meta’s communications director

edit: yes I know that doesn’t preclude the possibility of Meta hiring former Twitter employees and not making them part of the Threads team.

Short answer: No.

tl;dr answer: There’s no tagging function in place unless you manually tag them using markdown, and that still wouldn’t notify them. That would be a bandaid solution at best.

I still use it with a couple of friends on a private server.