Looking for a Lemmy client for my desktop, archlinux. Was hoping for a good community recommendation and preferably open source.
Same as for every other website: Firefox.
I really like Photon, that is a web client but with Firefox PWAs addon can be installed a regular app
EDIT: just seen someone else wrote the same in a different comment, wooops
Been feeling old and out of touch lately, and seeing this was comforting somehow.
I mean, I’m still old and out of touch, but it’s nice to see that one particular ancient technology might still be considered the best way to do something.
On the other hand, desktop computers are getting a bit long in the tooth as a concept these days…
Companies pushed for us to install their apps on our phones so they could force ads on us and extract (meta)data from us that they couldn’t from our browsers.
Cory Doctorow: How lock-in hurts design
More than half of all web-users have installed ad-blockers.
This is why services are so horny to drive you to install their app rather using their websites: they are trying to get you to do something that, given your druthers, you would prefer not to do. They want to force you to exit through the gift shop, you want to carve a desire path straight to the parking lot. Apps let them mobilize the law to literally criminalize those desire paths.
An app is just a web-page wrapped in enough IP to make it a felony to block ads in it (or do anything else that wrestles value back from a company). Apps are web-pages where everything not mandatory is forbidden.
Seen in this light, an app is a way to wage war on desire paths, to abandon the cooperative model for co-innovation in favor of the adversarial model of user control and extraction.
And now this corporate brainworm has infected our desktop environments, even Linux ones. Just say no.
Desktop clients came before web apps and a well written (desktop or otherwise) app will always use the platform it’s running on better than a well written web app. Sure there is incentive for corporations to push apps, but saying “it has now infected even Linux” is absolutely ridiculous. Lack of open API is what you should criticize.
It’s called a browser? :-)
Honestly, I don’t understand people downloading apps to run things like discord, facebook, spotify, and now lemmy. These are webpages, and were designed to work as webpages. So, best would be to use a web browser.
In my opinion there should be more apps. I hate that they are just webpages tho
I’ve never heard that take before. Can you explain why you think there should be more apps instead of using the browser?
You mean, like … browser?
No, really 🙃
For Firefox this exists, all other browsers have this functionality directly implemented. Chromium-based browsers can usually be started with parameter --app=https://example.com to start example.com in a SSB/PWA-looking window.
Plus: With this you do not lose the ability to open links in new tabs and you have access to your default configuration for websites.
Wow that extension is nice! Way better than the overcomplex “Firefox PWAs” I suppose.
Way better than the overcomplex “Firefox PWAs” I suppose.
Yep. Technically it just creates a new tab that creates a popup with the requested URL and the created tab closes itself after the popup was created. So not really a PWA but just a popup with a website in it, but in most cases this is absolutely fine since you’re online anyways, and modern browsers are good with caching.
Oh I had this recently with a normal website and it is extremely strange.
No, I dont think thats the same
- no persistent storage
- different desktop icon?
- desktop integration?
Chromium has quite nice integration in Linux, even though for sure its bad, but I use it instead of Electron.
It’s not exactly desktop, but I use Voyager. It’s a web app. You can also self host it if you don’t want to use the developer instance (I’ve got mine running in docker for desktop use. I use the Voyager app for iOS)
Mozilla Firefox
