@z428 Completely true. Friendica specific features seem to be ignored by all the apps I've encountered, while the web front is just fantastic - even on mobile. The only app I see trying to respect the feature choice is #Friendiqa but it's development is a bit slow.
and dealing with apps can be a drain to ones time even greater than different Fediverse accounts in itself
Indeed it is. There are little reasons for using apps for online services that work well enough inside a web browser. We've just gotten used to corporations pushing us towards their walled gardens.
Yeah, exactly. People should recognize that apps are their own form of walled gardens, or maybe they are the walls of gardens, choose your analogy.
When something can be done in a web browser, then you can access it all sorts of ways, from all different browsers. (Ideally)
But accessing via app is accepting that single interface.
Sometimes there is no real choice, and functionality just doesn't work with a browser, and that's fine. The plants in that walled garden are special. Again, choose your analogy :)
But when a browser interface can handle it, let's choose that path, not an app.
@z428
Yeah, everything-in-a-browser has been a longtime coming but recent development as browser tech has improved over generations, both on the frontend and backend.
Browsers have so much more capability now, and heck, so often an app is simply an embedded web browser with handcuffs.
I actually had @jwz in mind with this post of his:
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/psa-do-not-use-services-that-hate-the-internet/
Funnily enough, that I could share a link from a browser to the post illustrates his point.
