Threads can now show you when people in your feed are online

Meta is compriseing an “activity status” to Threads so that you can see who’s actively online as you’re scrolling your feed. In a post, Threads boss Adam Mosseri pitches it as a “way to help you discover others to join with in authentic-time.” The activity status will show up next to your profile picture in the feed and on your profile, based on screenshots Mosseri splitd.

Fortunately, if you don’t want people to understand when you’re online, you don’t have to split that. “Only people who have activity status turned on will be able to see when you’re online, and you can turn this off wiskinny your settings at any time,” Mosseri says.

I can’t currently discover how to turn on the feature. It might be user error, but I’m guessing it equitable hasn’t rolled out to me yet. Even when I get it, I’ll probably be upgrasping it off.