@realcaseyrollins@civiq.social @shibaprasad

I prefer apps when they use a common protocol - Mastodon apps, IRC clients, XMPP programs, etc. That's even true for non-social media: I prefer IMAP clients to webmail pages, dedicated music players to streaming webapps, and so on.

Apps that speak some opaque undocumented protocol on the wire are much less welcome - a browser parsing HTML may give me less interface control than the above examples, but at least it doesn't hide what it's doing.