And for fuck sake make sure it works on Firefox!
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Attention developers: stop making apps. If you want profit, make a subscription to an account with a web app. Want to keep people happy? Subscription only charges them once. Bonus, the web app you write once works on everything, including those niche Linux phones.
Government moves to censor websites? Darknets aren’t just for criminals and conspiracy theorists anymore. Whitelist sites? We move to mesh networks like reticulum.
We nerds can move faster than a government can, especially this one.
Best thing about this is that moves like this totally destroy the profit-centric internet of today, flinging us back to a simpler, weirder, better classical internet we grew up with.
4am@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Reygle@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Perplexity is built in to Firefox now. Fuck Firefox.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Adding an optional extra search engine isn’t the end of the world.
They also have Google and Bing, which aren’t nice either, yet nobody was doing this performative outrage over optional search engine inclusions before.
chunes@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Reminder to all downvoters: firefox sells your data now. You should be using librefox at the very least.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I think you mean librewolf, unless there is also a librefox.
scintilla@crust.piefed.social 3 days ago
I really should pay more attention to firefox news. I’m not even sure what to do in the even mozilla implodes before a new non-chromimium browser actually becomes viable.
Fingers crossed for ladybird.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
well i mean, so are some others like le chat. not like Firefox has been trying to expand out of their browser.
detren@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Didn’t even Steve jobs envision iPhones just doing everything through web apps at first too
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Nah, the app running functionality just wasn’t ready in time, so like the true marketing bro he was, he only wanted to project success and sold the thing he had working (web sites on a phone) as the best invention ever thought of ever. A year and a half later when the app making tools were finally ready, suddenly those were the greatest innovation ever thought of ever. All of a sudden in a span of less than 2 years from their introduction web apps were stupid and clunky and boomer.
cycadophyta@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’ve been thinking for a while that web apps are the way to go. Screw native apps
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Depends. Are you storing and consuming your data or someone else’s?
Your data -> Native apps Their data -> Web apps
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
You data hosted on your shit->still web apps
Spin up a container. Set up WireGuard. Done
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 days ago
I run everything I can on my phone, and lots of things on my PC, through web apps rather than stand-alone apps.
Wronnay@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Oh, I actually switched from making mobile apps back to web apps a while ago.
Not because of Texas but because I am sick of Google and Apple dictatorship.
diablexical@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
What about payments?
scottrepreneur@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Did credit cards stop working on websites?
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
You’ve never bought anything online before apps?
REDACTED@infosec.pub 4 days ago
But WEB3… Is your digital wallet ready?
architect@thelemmy.club 6 hours ago
I’m all about this but who and where? How do we organize?
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
We don’t. Thats the point. If you organize into a single group you are now a target that can be destroyed. Ask the black panthers.
Instead, share everything and help eachother. Stay decentralized.