• echo@sopuli.xyz
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    the will to test multiple apps, learning that to login you have to input the server url manually since most aren’t listed in the apps

    I don’t get why everything needs to be an app. Mastodon’s (and Lemmy’s) web UI works perfectly well in a mobile browser.

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      I disagree, majority of my interaction with Lemmy and Mastodon is on a app on my phone. The mobile site is just okay. Let people choose their interface on how they want their content.

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        sure, but they listed testing multiple apps as a step people have to take.

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      I find it hilarious to watch people struggling with doing things on their phone… while sitting in front of their desktop computer. My phone is for taking calls, sending texts, and playing solitaire. Anything else can wait until I have a real screen available to read it on.

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          I just mean a screen big enough to display a decent amount of information. Trying to browse websites on a phone when you can only see a little bit of text at a time, or you have to keep swiping to see different products because they can only show one image at a time… I honestly don’t know how anyone deals with the incredible waste of time. You figure a typical computer screen is at least 2-4 times larger than a cell phone screen, and many of us are running two or more monitors on their computer, and using a cell phone screen starts to feel like looking at the world through a ten foot length of pipe.

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        Lots of people don’t have much use or time for a computer. You use the small screen when you can - during work breaks, commuting, doing errands. Shit I used to be a geek and I don’t even have a proper computer.

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        So does a mobile browser?

        Maybe handling multiple accounts is easier with an app but that’s beyond basic use

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            “If I take deliberate steps to inconvenience myself, I feel inconvenienced! Grrrr I’m so angry at this thing that I used to inconvenience myself!”

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              If someone explaining why they use an app instead of a website (in a literal comment thread about why people would prefer an app to the mobile site) triggers you in such a way that your only response is to make up an irate strawman… it might be time to log off, step outside and practice interacting with people like an functioning adult.

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                But they were talking about setting their browser to incognito and/or closing their tab, both things which an app just don’t have. Nevermind that closing a tab does not log you out of your account, both things are things that he just could… not do and are not entirely normal to do when using a browser, so he did actually go out of the way to inconvenience himself in the case of the browser, it is not a strawman.

                Also, I’m not triggered. Idk how you arrived at that point. You’re the one calling my statement irate and telling me to go outside and stuff. I was just being calm and slightly making fun of the comment.

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                  The question was, why use an app. Answer was, because some people keep their browser in permanent incognito. Nobody was annoyed or irritated, it’s a completely valid answer why people prefer to do something that way for their reason. Just take the answer and move on.