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   z428 (z428@loma.ml)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 13:48:35 JST z428
   The day I finally learnt to fully give up on all #Fediverse apps and feel happy with what mail notifications and the mobile browser are capable of doing. #Friendica web frontend has greatly improved with the last versions, and there's no "real" app handling Friendica specific features, such as in the post dialog, filtering by network type or meaningfully resharing Tumblr or Diaspora posts, anyhow - and dealing with apps can be a drain to ones time even greater than different Fediverse accounts in itself.
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     z428 (z428@loma.ml)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 13:48:32 JST z428

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     • petrescatraian
     @petrescatraian Yes ... and in a way, too, there's .... more quantity than quality it seems. Playing through a load of different choices, it seems though they differ in some aspects, most of the general approaches of the clients used today are similar. Like, no real offline support (except for @AndStatus which unfortunately also has no "good" idea about Friendica specific stuff), no sorting or filtering or "good" notification. Somehow I still am waiting for an e-mail style Fediverse client which also allows for good client-side compensation of things such as reverse chronological order (which is more obvious than any other algorithm yet still hard to handle with a load of stuff in a timeline). Maybe #relatica or #fedilab (or even AndStatus) at some point will grow into this, but I am unsure how likely that is. And in the meantime .... I want to keep myself from that FOMO'ish patterns of repeatedly trying different tools just to notice they all have shortcomings of similar gravity and all of them have some sweet spots but some basic features are missing in all of them.🙂
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     petrescatraian (petrescatraian@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 13:48:34 JST petrescatraian

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     @z428 Completely true. Friendica specific features seem to be ignored by all the apps I've encountered, while the web front is just fantastic - even on mobile. The only app I see trying to respect the feature choice is #Friendiqa but it's development is a bit slow.

     and dealing with apps can be a drain to ones time even greater than different Fediverse accounts in itself

     Indeed it is. There are little reasons for using apps for online services that work well enough inside a web browser. We've just gotten used to corporations pushing us towards their walled gardens.

     AndStatus@Mastodon repeated this.
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     AndStatus@Mastodon (andstatus@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 14:00:38 JST AndStatus@Mastodon

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     • petrescatraian
     • volkris

     @z428 Frankly I personally read social networks rarely, and the #AndStatus app helps me keep a track of what's unread and look at that stuff and react at any place, even when there is no good connection.
     But what I value even more is a feeling that I really "own my data" :-)
     - I keep my conversations in the app for more than ten years already. I don't know why :-)
     @petrescatraian @volkris