Didn’t even Steve jobs envision iPhones just doing everything through web apps at first too
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks 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.
detren@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
You data hosted on your shit->still web apps
Spin up a container. Set up WireGuard. Done
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
What about payments?
scottrepreneur@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Did credit cards stop working on websites?
diablexical@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I should have been more direct - if a site accepts credit card payments then they are working with a payment processor that will absolutely 100% cooperate with the govt in choking off sites access to revenue. So to answer your question did cc’s stop working on websites - yes! on many that a govt has decided needs to be shut down, for legitimate or illegitimate reasons. Wikileaks donations being a famous example but if a site doesn’t comply with Texas you bet they can snap their fingers and all payment processors will jump from that site.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
You’ve never bought anything online before apps?
diablexical@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
See reply to another poster - I meant to point out that if governments move to censor sites the payment processors will move in lockstep to the govt in censoring payments.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Then people will pay with other means. There’s tons of crypto bullshit options out there to choose from.
architect@thelemmy.club 4 weeks ago
I’m all about this but who and where? How do we organize?
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks 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.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
But WEB3… Is your digital wallet ready?
4am@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
And for fuck sake make sure it works on Firefox!
Reygle@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Perplexity is built in to Firefox now. Fuck Firefox.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Reminder to all downvoters: firefox sells your data now. You should be using librefox at the very least.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I think you mean librewolf, unless there is also a librefox.
scintilla@crust.piefed.social 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
well i mean, so are some others like le chat. not like Firefox has been trying to expand out of their browser.