I remember they had a blog post about this. A big source of confusion is that Uber already had this feature on their notifications so a lot of people thought this feature existed already. But it turns out Uber had to do a lot of custom work to do it in their app, and now Android has made it an easier and standardized API.

EDIT: https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-live-notifications-3518375/

If this doesn’t sound like anything new to you, I don’t blame you. After all, rideshare apps like Uber have already been showing notifications like this for years now. Uber had to do a lot of custom stuff to make its notifications look like that on Android, though. Google has basically created a standardized version of what Uber’s been doing. With the new progress-centric notifications in Android 16, any app can create notifications like Uber.

I think you misunderstood, ada was suggesting using a different server than lemmy.world in order to spread out the load better

some examples:

https://discuss.online/

https://sh.itjust.works/

https://lemmy.ca/

https://sopuli.xyz/

https://lemmy.zip/

https://aussie.zone/

They’re all still Lemmy, just different access points. If you want the “Old” UI, some have it built in like https://old.lemmy.ca/ and https://old.lemmy.zip/