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Why so many of you are looking for a mobile app? (feddit.it)

submitted 1 year ago by Edo78@feddit.it to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I get that, if things are not changed on the Apple side, websites can't have proper notification so you are forced to have an app but on android PWA (Progressive Web Apps - basically websites on steroids) are a real thing and you can just "install" the lemmy website of your instance and avoid any bloated app. Are you looking for an app with some feature missing from the website? Are you just unaware of the possibility of installing the website itself? I don't want to sound rude (English isn't my first language) but I don't get what to me looks like an obsession to have a bloated app installed on your phone

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[–] Edo78@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is it some kind of proxy that translate from a format to another to help moving the reddit apps to talk with lemmy? My question remain ... why an app instead of a website?

[–] communist 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because sync for reddit is absolutely better than the lemmy website in just about every feasible way.

[–] Edo78@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

never find an app I liked for reddit ... my question still remain shouldn't be faster to write a web frontend similar to an app instead of writing a proxy just to keep using an app that waste way more space on the device?

[–] communist 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The proxy is hosted on the lemmy instance, it allows the reddit apps to interface with lemmy, it won't take up more space on the device than the app itself.

One of the last things i'm worried about on my phone is the amount of space I have, i'd rather have a fluid, native interface.

[–] Edo78@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was talking about the space of the app not the proxy. Sorry but I still don't get your point ... don't you think that a light PWA can be fluider and faster than an app? It's surely lighter so it's an objective point in its favour

[–] communist 1 points 1 year ago

There is no chance of a PWA being as fast as a native app, I don't know why you believe that.