Yeah that’s a Pixel feature unfortunately, unrelated to Google Assistant.

Oh glad to know I’m not the only one. There’s a song that plays often at work that I’m just dying to know the name of but every time I try, Google tells me it’s unable to connect.

Sounds to me like the instance you’re looking for is Blahaj Lemmy over at lemmy.blahaj.zone.

Regardless of the legality of it was my interpretation.

Coming from someone with a deviated septum, you can’t 😔

No

That’s interesting! They aren’t supposed to do that though, right? It goes against Google’s policy.

Sure, but installing them is a step in the LineageOS installation guide.

I’m using LineageOS 20 right now, waiting on 21. I’ve been getting weekly updates since I installed it, so things seem fine for them.

I wonder where this misconception is coming from, it’s the second time in the last few days I’ve seen it. I can’t remember custom roms ever coming with the Google apps preinstalled, you’d always need to flash them separately before the first boot (thanks XDA). That’s why we have MindTheGApps.

That’s the spirit!

Just to clarify what I mean, lemmy.world’s position is bad for the threadiverse as a whole. It’s where most of our users and largest communities we all post to are. If .world goes down, it’d be a major blow to our current, mostly stable, position and we’d be significantly worse off than if Meta were to come and go. Things are improving though and communities are slowly spreading to other instances! I also deeply appreciate that we have kbin as an alternative to Lemmy - thank you Ernest

If they pull the plug on ActivityPub and take their users back, things would just be exactly how they are now. Since they can’t create communities or magazines like we can (and it’s very unlikely Meta is going to try to implement this), if they want to participate in discussion here, they’ll be posting in our communities. Kbin’s magazines are uniquely suited to this as well because content gets sorted into them based on hashtags, so they wouldn’t even need to know that they’re posting to a magazine to do it.

We’re already in a situation like you describe though with lemmy.world’s near monopoly on large communities, which seems concerning to me as is.

I would be… Anything I put on here, I know kbin.social will be sending out to thousands of other instances, and what those instances do with my content and how it’s displayed is completely out of my control. That’s just the nature of ActivityPub, and by posting here I think I have to be okay with that. There are already ActivityPub services that run ads, so it’s not unique to Threads either.

How would power be handed to Meta just because Threads has more users? The communities are under the control of the instances where they were created, and Threads users couldn’t create larger communities to replace them either since it’s only a microblogging platform.

That’s not really how ActivityPub works though, there’s no pulling. They wouldn’t be accessing kbin and downloading it’s data, it’s a push system. We would be pushing copies of our data out to Threads like we do now with all the other ActivityPub services. Threads would then distribute that data to it’s users with no extra work on kbin’s part. It would just be one more instance in addition to the thousands of instances already out there.

People bring up the XMPP Google situation a lot also, but I think it’s a bad analogy for this. Google’s adoption of XMPP brought people into the protocol and Google abandoning it took those same people away. Those who were using it before Google could still use it after Google. Anybody who left XMPP to follow Google did it because XMPP failed to adapt to the features people wanted. Thats why we have Matrix now instead.

I honestly want it. I want to follow people who have Threads accounts without needing a Threads account myself. I want more people in the fediverse and I don’t care what platform they’re using to access it because I’ll be on kbin.

If Meta one day decides to leave ActivityPub, that’s fine with me because I’ll still be here on kbin with all the same people who are here now who also would never use Threads.

This is something I actually use all the time. It helps to mentally separate the tasks I’m working on and keep things from getting cluttered. For example, if I’m editing audio on one desktop and preparing a 3D print on another, I can keep all those programs and files siloed into their own little workspace. I can also just stop working on either task at any point and just switch to a new clean desktop without losing my open programs and windows so I can just pop back into them later.

Freesia - (K)NoW_NAME has been an obsession for a while now. It might be my new favorite song?

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