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Maybe a controversial opinion, but Lemmy is pretty great as a PWA (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by prof@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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So Jerboa broke on my phone just now and I didn't want to stop browsing Lemmy. Unfortunately no suitable alternative was found so I just decided to check if I could open it in my browser and install it.

To my surprise, it worked. And it works really well quite frankly. Sure, the UI is different, but I'm not at all missing any features.

Did any of you guys try it as well? What's your opinion?

If not, did you even know that was a possibility? It quite frankly never crossed my mind, because Reddit and other platforms always force you to use an app when you open them in a browser.

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[–] neardeaf@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m primarily using Mlem on iOS cause the PWA was always kinda janky for me

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I started on PWA, got frustrated with it, moved to Mlem, got frustrated with it, moved to Memmy, and then found not all features were implemented yet — so checked out PWA again and found it had somehow massively improved since the last time I used it.

So now I use both PWA and Memmy, with Memmy getting more use every day (inbox support got added today).

[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 2 points 1 year ago

This is my journey too

[–] catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Yup. Memmy is improving quite rapidly though, so I’m sticking here for now.