Comment on PeerTube crowdfunding to develop mobile app

• Paddy66@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They don’t have to be, as far as I understand it. I’ve installed a few websites as apps on my phone (because their app had trackers in it) and they can work really well. Examples are Bluesky and Flipboard.

  An example where I agree with you is LinkedIn - installed as a web app due to trackers - but they know this, and the whole point of their app is to get you with Facebook and Microsoft trackers, so they make the web app experience miserable on purpose.

  But (and correct me if I’m wrong) a PWA made by a non-surveillance capitalist could be just as good as a native app.

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Half of the equation is that those making the PWA need to make it well. The other half is that the platform you install it on has to support it well. And Google and Apple have decided to support PWAs as little as possible (in some cases going to far as to break entire functionalities. And since those two companies make the two most commonly used mobile OS’… well it’s better to just go with a native app.

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    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You do know that a pwa can be packaged up in an app container and you won’t even be able to tell the difference?

      It doesn’t actually have to operate like a pwa, and require native pwa sport.

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• non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pwas aren’t terrible. Chrome made pwas terrible.

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m well aware of why they’re terrible, (Safari as well). However the unfortunate result is that they are terrible.

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• douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are tons of apps that you use that are just well packaged PWAs, packaged as an app store app, and you don’t even know about it.

  PWAs only suck on when they suck, just like everything else.

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are tons of apps that you use that are just well packaged PWAs, packaged as an app store app

    So… native apps, that interface with a PWA.

    There’s the kicker.

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    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep, just like electron or Tauri. A web view wrapped in a native application.

      These are very common these days. Mainly because it’s just easier to develop UIs with web technologies that look the same everywhere, never without the app.

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