Agreed in most scenarios, but wefwef is arguably the best PWA I’ve ever used - it’s nice right now as an option to get something into user’s hands quickly without waiting for App Store approval. Would love to see it become a native app eventually.

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the sacred texts

Yeah I can also see that animations aren’t as smooth as Mlem or other native apps, but it’s not bad enough that it bothers me. On an 14 Pro also.

I imagine this has to do with the fact that PWAs likely don’t have access to full hardware acceleration for graphics, but I also don’t know enough about PWAs and iOS to know for sure.

It’s probably a bit of both - wefwef has been around for literally just days at this point I believe, so I have high hopes it will continue to improve.

Beyond that, there are a lot of people who feel Apollo is/was the best user experience for Reddit, and there will be a LOT of devs trying to emulate that - one way or another, we’re going to get a high-quality Apollo replacement eventually.

Are you using it as an installed PWA? I’m not having any issues with animations or scrolling. I have run into a few weird UI bugs with slide up menus within communities, but that’s about it.

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Highly recommend checking out wefwef - closest option to an Apollo clone as I’ve seen so far in terms of UI and functionality, and doesn’t even need to be installed. Memmy is a very good second place option, but I’ve been using wefwef since I heard about it yesterday and ZI think it’s better.

So your master plan is to… keep providing Reddit with traffic, views, and new content?

There’s a much simpler and effective alternative: stop using Reddit.

Look at those eyes!

Yeah the icon is goofy but I can overlook it for the time being - I’d rather them focus on features and functionality and bring the fun stuff later (which seems to be how they’re approaching this)

Memmy is developing at a crazy fast rate - it’s leapfrogged Mlem in features and stability already imho.

too little, too late.

Sims 3?!?

You’re way too aggressive about this. You can join any other instance and access the same content, or start your own. Nobody is “silencing” you.

If you want absolute control over what instances you’re federated with, start your own instance. Otherwise, find one that’s more closely aligned to your views.

As others have said, this is one of the main points of federated networks, if you don’t like how an instance is run, you can take your ball and go play somewhere else.

There are a huge number of high quality reputable VPNs that are ~$3-5 per month, or less if you’re willing to buy a longer term plan up front.

I use Private Internet Access (PIA) and bought 3 years up front for $79 I think - it works out to about $2 per month. You can sign up for a year for $39 right now.

Think about it this way: is it worth a cup of coffee per month for the peace of mind to not be sued for tens of thousands of dollars? I would say yes.

But if they behaved like this, other instances would just block them from federation (“seeing out” to other instances) and they’d be isolated in their own little silo. That’s the beauty of federated networks - bad actors will be naturally pushed out and isolated.

Yeah, I agree with it feeling “off” - can’t put my finger on exactly why. It feels like someone’s hobby project, as in one single person. The UI feels cluttered and not well thought out.

As other people have pointed out too, it gives me a weird vibe that there’s no information about who created it, who controls it, how it’s moderated. And the domain was registered on GoDaddy like three months ago… just feels really off to me.

The horizontal blocks UI with post content on the left, and discussion on the right, frankly sucks. Weird font choices across the interface as well.

Scaling costs will be untenable if Squabbles ever starts to gain serious user traction, and then they’re in the same predicament as Reddit - you have to monetize somehow in order to pay for the infrastructure. That’s either ads, paid subscriptions, or selling your user data.

I don’t see how this is any better than Reddit.