# Threads Expands Global Communities to Organize Content by Interest

Threads is rolling out a global test of a new feature called Communities, designed to create dedicated spaces around your favorite topics on both web and mobile apps. The idea is to let users explore content specific to areas they care about in a more organized way.

• What it does: Communities act like topic-centered hubs where you can find posts and content related to areas such as professional basketball, K-pop, books, TV shows, AI, and more. You can join different communities and view feeds that are dedicated to each one, similar to channels on Reddit or X’s community spaces.
• How it affects your profile: When you join a community, Threads labels your profile to show your membership to others. The posts from that community can be pinned to a dedicated section in your feeds menu.
• Relationship to existing features: This builds on Threads’ topics and custom feeds, which let you tailor feeds to specific topics and accounts. Adding communities should make it easier to discover posts aligned with your interests.
• What you’ll see in a community: Each community displays a mix of posts created within the space and posts that are only related to the topic. You’ll also notice a unique emoji for the like button within each community (for example, a book emoji on a book-focused space).
• Finding and joining: You can search for communities on the platform, though Threads notes that not every interest has a dedicated community yet. If a topic has a community, you’ll see a three-dot badge to the left of the tag.
• What’s coming next: In the future, Threads plans to add more community-focused features, including badges that highlight the most active members, as well as tweaks to how posts are ranked within communities and in the For You feed to surface more relevant content.
• Staying updated: You can follow topics and authors to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.

Written by Emma Roth.