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   alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 04:25:51 JST alcinnz

   Loosely echoing a sentiment I've seen recently...

   I don't like webapps, I want the web to focus on documents!
   On what its good at!

   At the same time I'd rather you published your writing/etc under a snazzy URL than to publish an app (wrapping a webpage).
   And I'd rather the organizations I sporadically interact with didn't say "Use our app!"

   In general I'm not a fan of modern apps...

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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 04:28:32 JST alcinnz

     in reply to

     For anyone saying "but native platforms are worse!"...

     1. Not the one I use.
     2. You've set a low bar.
     3. Who are the incumbant browser-devs?
     4. Maybe we need a better cross-platform app platform? I don't really care personally.

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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 06:58:48 JST alcinnz

     in reply to

     • Space Catitude 🚀

     @TerryHancock Yes, too often they are!

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     Space Catitude 🚀 (terryhancock@realsocial.life)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 06:58:49 JST Space Catitude 🚀

     in reply to

     @alcinnz

     IMHO, "apps" are just a way to circumvent security measures in browsers.

     But I LIKE my security measures!
     :raccoon_cool:

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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 11:23:11 JST alcinnz

     in reply to

     Addressing another objection I've heard translating to "What about the appeal of everything on your computer being up-to-date?"

     What about the appeal of the data on your computer not just changing out from under you? That appeals to me more!

     As for the stuff I do want to stay up to date... There's better tech for that now! I hear GNOME's actively looking into it!

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     LovesTha🥧 (lovestha@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 11:52:31 JST LovesTha🥧

     in reply to

     @alcinnz Web app level of up to date is really only something that appeals to companies wanting to not support old software.

     Which I fully understand. But that isn't usually in the end users best interests.

     I do like keeping software up to date, but the NixOS model of 'everything gets updated, or nothing does' is pretty appealing. It should reduce the instances of an update breaking the interactions between applications.