I always see posts asking for the “best apps”, so I thought it might be fun to flip the script. I originally thought this would be mobile-focused, but honestly I do the same thing on desktop.
I’d also be interested in any tools/techniques that help you achieve this. PWAs, scripts, mobile, desktop, whatever.
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A lot of things where the “app” is just a bloated Electron wrapper. The web version, if offered, is almost always better even if it lacks a few features.
Especially for proprietary services. I would much rather run their app in the strong sandbox of my browser rather than letting their Electron monstrosity run rampant on my system.
YouTube. The mobile site is fairly functional and with Firefox for Android I can block the ads.
I would usually feel bad about blocking ads but I paid for YouTube Premium for many years but only quite because they kept degrading the service. So I don’t really have any sympathy.
Time for these submitters to move to PeerTube and LiberaPay
Lemmy. The mobile apps just aren’t there just yet.
Says a lot about the apps I guess. I don’t find the website to be particularly great, at least on mobile. Seems to constantly reset my filters and/or my scroll position which is very annoying. Getting a reply has a ‘context’ button, but that just takes you to the post with only that reply visible. It takes a separate click to show what that reply is actually replying to, which feels weirdly clunky.
Facebook - I’ve found their mobile app is very large and I didn’t like the temptation to look at it all the time. I switch to using a browser in privacy/incognito mode. I log in and spend more quality time seeing what my friends and family are up to without obsessing over it.
The most common reason for something to be “better in the app” is that the website is full of popups telling you to use the app
Right now lemmy.ca. But I am using and rooting for Jerboa!
I’m holding out for Sync for Lemmy. Been using Jerboa and so far, I’m not impressed. Yet.
