• Dol_Eggert@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    Why the heck do i have to use another service in order to use Piefed? If Piefed wants to be an actual alternative to reddit, it has to stop with this weirdly unintuitive and unnecesarily complex setup.

    • wjs018@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      You don’t need to use one of these apps. PieFed is perfectly capable of running in a browser, even a mobile browser. Also, you can install PieFed on your phone as a PWA (progressive web application) so that it can be run on your phone exactly like an app.

      Some people prefer a different interface though, so these other apps provide options for them. Also, some people are making a transition from lemmy and these apps generally also support lemmy, so it makes the transition easier when the interface stays the same through the transition.

    • Vogi@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      It’s just the app…. you need to use an app to interact with almost all services these days. Maybe you are referring to having choice to be unintuitive? Sure it’s more work and you have to think about what fits most your needs but i think it’s a net benefit to be even have to choice.

      • Dol_Eggert@piefed.socialEnglish
        21·
        2 days ago

        I don’t get why Piefed isn’t an app itself? It’s like saying you need and app in order to use Instagram? It doesn’t make any sense to me at all. If Piefed wants to be an alterantive to Instgram, it needs to be an integrated app - not a service that is depending on running on third party software in order to work.

        • nysqin@feddit.org
          3·
          2 days ago

          Not who you responded to.

          It’s like saying you need and app in order to use Instagram

          That’s exactly what your Instagram app is: An application to use the Instagram “service”. The only difference is that the app is developed by the same people who develop the Instagram service.

          it needs to be an integrated app

          In some cases, an app is even just another design of the same web page you visit with your browser. The Netflix app you have on your Windows PC is just the web page wrapped in a certain way so that it looks like a program you find on your computer.

          That list up there are what you call “integrated apps”.