Well you rarely ever see them done right. This is a wonderful example of what can be accomplished with a PWA if more developers were more interested that format.
Developers are. But people think a “native” electron app is better.
Also a closed source native app can do tracking a pwa has a hard time doing.
Most applications people use TODAY are a web view with some (or none) extra stuff running in the back anyway. If PWAs worked in safari (as they should) almost no top 100 app would be outside of the capabilities of the web as a platform. Not even offline usage. Not even games.
Just remember to read the “Terms and Privacy” before using it.
wefwef.app proxies information and you need to rely on their promise to not log, sell or inspect it.
They also collect “aggregated anonymized analytics”.
As an alternative, you can install any Lemmy website as PWA app. Also, the native phone app Jerboa doesn’t have those issues. You might want to consider one of those alternatives instead.
I too was shocked by how much it feels like Apollo and how silky smooth it is. I no longer even care whether or not someone makes a native iOS app for Lemmy.
Check out wefwef, it’s a mobile app but it replicates the Apollo experience shockingly well.
I can confirm it’s pretty fuckin lit, didn’t expect PWA to be such a good experience
It’s utterly changed my opinion on web apps. It’s astonishingly good.
Same here. Its amazing! And it works on my android too!
Well you rarely ever see them done right. This is a wonderful example of what can be accomplished with a PWA if more developers were more interested that format.
Developers are. But people think a “native” electron app is better.
Also a closed source native app can do tracking a pwa has a hard time doing.
Most applications people use TODAY are a web view with some (or none) extra stuff running in the back anyway. If PWAs worked in safari (as they should) almost no top 100 app would be outside of the capabilities of the web as a platform. Not even offline usage. Not even games.
https://wefwef.app
Replying using wefwef
Same. On my own shiny self-hosted instance.
Just remember to read the “Terms and Privacy” before using it.
wefwef.app proxies information and you need to rely on their promise to not log, sell or inspect it.
They also collect “aggregated anonymized analytics”.
As an alternative, you can install any Lemmy website as PWA app. Also, the native phone app Jerboa doesn’t have those issues. You might want to consider one of those alternatives instead.
As an alternative you can self host wefwef so that should alleviate some of the concerns
I don’t think that’s enough reason to immediately dismiss wefwef and if your truly concerned just self host.
I’ve tried many alternatives but so far wefwef is #1
I too was shocked by how much it feels like Apollo and how silky smooth it is. I no longer even care whether or not someone makes a native iOS app for Lemmy.