Not just as in Lemmy, but as in general.
Apps for things I use frequently. Websites are just inefficient in general.
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I’m happy to use mobile apps in the fediverse. Begrudgingly I’ll use mobile banking apps as needed.
I go back and forth between the YouTube app and mobile website. Mobile web is nice because SponsorBlock and Dearrow both work on it.
That’s why I switched on YouTube on the phone to Tubular, but it’s feature that it doesn’t connect to your YouTube account for history and so makes it less usable. But it has another good feature playing audio in the background.
I really hate it when they make the website unusable to force you to use their app. So for that reason alone I’ll never download the yelp app.
There is no way I’d use Lemmy with the web app if I didn’t know about:
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Summit
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Voyager
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Boost
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Eternity
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Sync
Clients… The same could be said for more apps (like Reddit, Feedly etc) so yeah I think I am more in the mobile apps, aside from extremely annoying ones, such as Amazon, Ebay, AliExpress etc.
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App if I use it often, website for everything else. The UI is usually better in the app. Many mobile websites are a pain to use. Plus I have a system-wide ad blocker
Usually apps.
Right now I’m trying Instagram and Facebook as website shortcuts. I watch reels on Instagram and people send event invites on Facebook (birthdays and whatnot) but I don’t like having them installed. The reels scrolling fucks up very often but otherwise it’s fine.
In the end I don’t know why I’m bothering, since I use messenger with a few people and I can’t seem to use that without an app (or going to my PC every time).
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Apps if I use the website enough to justify it. I have apps for all my favorite fast food places so I can order ahead.
If what I want to do is no different on an app than on the website through a browser, I just use the browser.
I generally prefer the app, in most scenarios. But it depends on what the platform is. Some will just perform better in the app because the app is the main focus of the platform, but others are just a web wrapper for the mobile site and just eat up space on your device for no discernible reason.
I find that it’s also generally easier to sandbox permissions on a per-app basis than a per-website basis. So even though a lot of times the app is meant to be a vector to harvest more data out of the user, in the right setting it can actually be more secure than just using the website. But that’s very situational.
Something I use infrequently: website 10/10 times
It’s only if I use something almost daily that I’ll install an app for it.
The website, I prefer to switch on the desktop site than using an app. Only exceptions? FOSS apps that are on F-droid
I don’t use websites on mobile.
Websites wherever possible.
I will fight the dark patterns trying to manipulate me into using the app also.
If I cannot do anything without the app I will not use said service.
