Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction

ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Most “apps” are just http web hooks to a regular website backend with extra tracking telemetry. So a website working as a PWA should be enough for everyone. I hate how everything has to be a fucking app, because it doesn’t need to be

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  • AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If phone OSes made it so there’s less friction to save a web page as an icon on your desktop it would help to resolve that issue I think.

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    • Dampyr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I think that’s only partly true as companies, especially big ones, want the telemetry and control of a native app instead of just a web page

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      • Hazor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        They also want the ability to make you agree to a TOS with an arbitration clause so you can’t sue them when your wife dies because they screwed up her food.

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    • kiagam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Proper PWA websites save very well to phone home screens (like voyager for Lemmy!)

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s just two taps in browser to get it on home screen.

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    • flames5123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s so easy, even on iOS. Just tap share and add to Home Screen. It’s probably just as easy on android.

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      • ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It’s very easy.

        Chrome let’s you do “install” websites to home screen, Firefox allows saving shortcuts to home screen.

        The annoying thing is that you can’t save them to the app drawer (at least on vanilla android), so if you have a clean home screen you have to sacrifice that.

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      • AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yep, you’re 100% right. Not sure why I thought it was high friction. I feel like I confused trying to put an icon for an image on my home screen (gym app’s sign in QR code) with sending a web page to the home screen.

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    • Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      At least on android I was able to just add a link to the home screen in Firefox.

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• MrSilkworm@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  On android:

  1. Open link in Firefox.
  2. Tap the three dots.
  3. Tap “add to start screen”

  There’s your app!

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  • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    On iOS through Safari: Tap the Share icon Scroll down a little Add to Home Screen Profit?

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• theorychapter@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Seems to work fine as a PWA-esque shortcut on iOS for the time being

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