• dudebro@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Lol, this funny trend of having a stupid ass homepage that just links to an app store.

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        1 year ago

        Twitter had the most data harvesting with news sites embedding tweets. Can’t do that with an app and no web.

      • NightOwl@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        And despite that I can’t believe some people are still not highly skeptical of federating with meta as though there isn’t over a decade of privacy infringing business practices. Instead wanting to hear them out after they just went through deleting content from reddit because they didn’t want to provide value to Spez, but they are fine with providing content for meta users to interact with for Zuckerberg?

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        1 year ago

        That is likely a benefit but let’s be honest the real reason is that a web version would require a lot of additional overhead especially to staff enough engineers.

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          1 year ago

          A web wrapper for the platform would be effectively no effort, especially for a company like Facebook. The difficulties would be losing out on tracking data and dealing with annoyances like adblock

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            1 year ago

            I wouldn’t be surprised if they are working on something now and just wanted to get the app out as an mvp.

        • ShunkW@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          This makes no sense honestly. Making a captive web app is easier than supporting two apps.