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.

TWiT is definitely in trouble. The last time I listened to them, one of their advertisements was for… doing advertisements on TWiT. They were also pushing their subscription every chance they got.

Their whole network comes off as a bunch of boomers complaining about technology. I don’t think they’ll be around much longer.

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.

Moving somewhere else? Where?

The only other options are back to Reddit, or somewhere else in the Fediverse. There aren’t other options.

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.

Make cargo shorts cool again

Funnily enough, people are already referring to “tweets” on Threads as “threats”

People do, but ease of use will trump it every time.

For exactly the reasons you state - Google doesn’t want ad blockers in their browser.