New? Nearby Share has been around for at least a year. The issue is no one knows about it, because as usual Google is horrible with branding.
They should have just called it "Google Beam" or something like that.
Can we just get a new Pixelbook instead?
One note I noticed about USB-C dongles and headphones is that they need to be powered, whereas traditional headphones do not. So the headphones draw power from the phone, which then hurts battery life.
Make cargo shorts cool again
If there is one thing Google is committed to, it's being unstabally committed to all of its products.
Probably because the cat is already out of the bag there. Hard to reign them back in and they'd have tons of bad press if they do that.
For exactly the reasons you state - Google doesn't want ad blockers in their browser.
It has a PWA, use that to get the "app" feeling.
Moving somewhere else? Where?
The only other options are back to Reddit, or somewhere else in the Fediverse. There aren't other options.
Funnily enough, people are already referring to "tweets" on Threads as "threats"
People do, but ease of use will trump it every time.
This is crazy. Google is delaying a competitor to Apple's network so Apple can support it better? Of course they're going to slow-walk it.