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Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction (arstechnica.com)
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[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 119 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Most "apps" are just http web hooks to a regular website backend with extra tracking telemetry. So a website working as a PWA should be enough for everyone.

I hate how everything has to be a fucking app, because it doesn't need to be.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If phone OSes made it so there's less friction to save a web page as an icon on your desktop it would help to resolve that issue I think.

[–] flames5123@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

It’s so easy, even on iOS. Just tap share and add to Home Screen. It’s probably just as easy on android.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

Yep, you're 100% right. Not sure why I thought it was high friction. I feel like I confused trying to put an icon for an image on my home screen (gym app's sign in QR code) with sending a web page to the home screen.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 2 points 16 hours ago

It's very easy.

Chrome let's you do "install" websites to home screen, Firefox allows saving shortcuts to home screen.

The annoying thing is that you can't save them to the app drawer (at least on vanilla android), so if you have a clean home screen you have to sacrifice that.

[–] Dampyr@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

I think that's only partly true as companies, especially big ones, want the telemetry and control of a native app instead of just a web page

[–] kiagam@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Proper PWA websites save very well to phone home screens (like voyager for Lemmy!)

[–] uis@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

It's just two taps in browser to get it on home screen.