NireBryce

reality is the battlefield

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๐Ÿฅ I am not embroiled in any legal battle
๐Ÿฆ other than battles that are legal ๐ŸŽฎ

I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.

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email: contact at breadthcharge dot net

I live on the northeast coast of the US.

'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

conceptual midwife.

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NireBryce
@NireBryce

is that until 2014, you could choose your display layout by choosing a different client.

want a grid of smaller feeds, separated by website? there's an rss client for that. or, was.

want a non-columnar Twitter layout? they existed.

want all your chat clients in the same view, including Slack via irc? pidgin and other clients could do this.

now we have webapps because companies want metrics and shorter development cycles and don't want their ads blocked at the client level and want to use tracking cookies. there's good reasons too, but I don't think they're ever just the good ones outside of scrappy small developers.

web 2.0 wasn't round corners, broadband, and a performant web. that was a side effect. web 2.0 was the web transcending the browser. Unlike what the cryptocurrency boosters say, we're already in web 3.0, a reaction, a regressive contraction. The web we're currently trapped in is the web of the browser and the browser alone.


Catfish-Man
@Catfish-Man

Years ago, on twitter, I described being an ex-Adium-developer with no power to stop the slide into walled off webapps as being able to "see forever while being chained to the floor". It's easy to see what could be when you already built it once and it got taken away.


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in reply to @NireBryce's post:

One of my devices is a DevTerm and I wish I could easily modify the layout of websites. It has a 1280x480 display and it's nearly impossible to use most websites without everything getting smashed into the middle of the screen. This is one of an extremely few devices that needs a horizontal layout, or at least no insane side margins or arbitrary content width.

And then there's some services where I'm stuck with a first party client that assumes none of its users will ever have a screen smaller than 1080p, so the enforced minimum window dimensions are too big to fit the whole app on the screen. And all that space it requires is being wasted on whitespace to look nice on a larger screen. :/

"browser alone"...I think that the way web mobile browsers strongarm people into using apps needs acknowledgement here. fb's web mobile updated for me two days ago and now it's unusable

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