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 Why is anyone using an app to access a #freesoftware project like #Mastodon that's free and doesn't track users or violate #privacy? Wouldn't it make more sense to focus that effort on #mobileweb and let everyone use the same interface regardless of platform? The way the web intended. 6 comments
I don't understand this argument. Are you speaking specifically to mobile browser implementations differing from desktop? @ParanoidFactoid @eob @shoq Wait. I'm on Mastodon.social. if I load the url: Https://Fosston.org/joeldebruijn I will not be logged in at Fosston.org and will be unable to follow. Correct? But if I load: Https://mastodon.social/@joeldebruijn@fisstodon.org I will get your profile and I can follow from my home server. What's the problem?  @ParanoidFactoid @shoq Both mobile and desktop browsers have the same restrictions. In general they store data for each web site separately in a way that makes it hard to write browser-only apps that seamlessly talk to multiple web sites. Because each Mastodon server's built-in web UI is at a different web site, it is hard to create frictionless user flows that span across different Mastodon servers. |
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@ParanoidFactoid @shoq The individual web UIs of the Mastodon servers will probably never be able to fix the cross-server follow/boost/like usability barriers that exist now, because of cross-server web/JavaScript security barriers.
Native third-party apps don't have these restrictions.
Though, as a compromise maybe third-party web apps like Pinafore or Elk, can also solve these problems.