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Just a thought.

They already made Lite versions of Facebook and Instagram.

And a lot of the new functions (stories, screen share, and the avatar emojis) only come as bloat for users like me.

So i think they should make an official app that came without those "features", having a priority on simplicity and data saving.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You're right, they should make a Lite version. There is a version that could be said to be Lite, but it is only for a system called KaiOS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am still stunned that ages after Mozilla dropped their Firefox web OS stuff the third biggest phone OS (Kai) is still based on it's remainings!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, Firefox was born out of Netscape's remains so... history repeats itself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There was a time when Mozilla was serious about competing rather than just surviving and it makes me a little sad that they droped basically all of that, Google still pays them a ton of money so it's basically just greed that got them here! :(

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

theoretically that version could just work on other OSes since KaiOS apps are all PWA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

KaiOS, also known as Mozilla's biggest fumble to date.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call it a fumble, it seems pretty successful in its target demographic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fumble was letting it go obviously!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ohhh i thought they were still working on it i didn't know it was an entirely separate project

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I didin't know about that!

I'll look it up πŸ€“