• 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.

          • jarfil@lemmy.world
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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.

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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.