What kind of app do you mostly use to interact with Mastodon?

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Official web app.
24.7%
A mobile app.
68.3%
A cli app.
0.4%
Other, please comment.
6.6%
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@rperezrosario mobile PWA
@thermia @rperezrosario they have a PWA? I might have to start using that. I'd rather have PWAs than a million electron apps all running separate browser instances
@justenoughducks @rperezrosario not sure about upstream mastodon, but the glitch-soc fork of mastodon does, and sharkey, the main instance software it uses does as well ^^

@thermia @rperezrosario @justenoughducks

Just for all the folks who might be interested, a PWA is a Progressive Web App.

More here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Guides/What_is_a_progressive_web_app

I had never heard about it. So there.

Disclaimer: there may well be better explanations. Please feel free to add.

What is a progressive web app? - Progressive web apps | MDN

A progressive web app (PWA) is an app that's built using web platform technologies, but that provides a user experience like that of a platform-specific app.

MDN Web Docs
@RolfBly @rperezrosario @justenoughducks ah yes! sorry

indeed PWA stands for "progressive web app", which basically allows one to "install" a web page and make it behave as any app installed on a device, icon on the home screen and all

as the article mentions, it also allows the site to interface with certain APIs exposed by the OS

all of this provides a more "native like" experience ^^
@justenoughducks @thermia @rperezrosario Android app is electron? I've been using Tusky which is a native app.
@mihamarkic @thermia @rperezrosario sorry for the confusion, no it is a java app. I was just making commentary on how many apps are electron apps nowadays (their desktop app is electron though)