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I think it has less bugs too. I really like how it functions.

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[–] WhoRoger 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Mobile is a bit too cluttered with small elements for my taste.

WPAs crash like mad. Now I have to start using apps.

[–] marswarrior 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] WhoRoger 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't like the idea of my password being handled by a proxy.

(I hope those native apps don't do something like that...)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can look at the wefwef and Jerboa code.

[–] WhoRoger 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not a programmer.

[–] wheels 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How can we know the live code is the same as what’s on display in github though?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Host it yourself?

That's a good point but I'm not the guy to ask. Try at [email protected]

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

I’m in the same boat as you which is why I set up my own wefwef instance. It’s a docker container so you can build it and use or if you trust the author just use the one he’s posting on ghcr.io

[–] WhoRoger 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not in position to self host anything at the moment (this whole Lemmy thing caught me between houses), but since everyone seems to want us to self host something, guess I can add this to the list. Ngl self hosting wefwef sounds cool, although by the time I'll get around to it, the regular apps will probably mature enough.

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

The whole thing took me about 30-40 minutes to set up from a scratch Debian 12 installation. The two main reasons I self hosted is because the instance hosted by the developer is getting rate limited and the second problem is there’s no IPv6 support. Privacy concerns were the least of my worries. The majority of the time I spent was configuring the other fun stuff, such as nginx ssh keys and firewalls. Other than offering you my own instance there’s not much I can do (which then again, is just trusting a different developer with your information)

[–] WhoRoger 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the time being I'll just live with a Chromium PWA, which at least doesn't crash unlike in FF. So that's not the worst.

The other things that could easily just be offline and yet have to have another computer somewhere, are more annoying. Like bookmarks or shopping lists.

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

I feel your pain. But wefwef won me over because it’s the UI I had gotten to know and adjusting to something different sucks. The other “Apollo-inspired” apps are not there yet. Guess we’ll see where we are in a month.

[–] WhoRoger 1 points 1 year ago

So far I'm quite liking Liftoff, which is veeeeery reminiscent of Infinity. It's also pretty far, because it's been in development for quite a while, albeit abandoned for a while. It's pretty crashy, but I imagine that will get sorted soon.

[–] marswarrior 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Enabling 2FA should solve that issue, right?

[–] Laxaria 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also use throwaway credentials and not get too attached.

Even if the host knows your password, it wouldn't really matter insofar as that password is only used there and nowhere else, and I hope no one is so super attached to their Lemmy accounts the way they were for their Reddit ones.

The "being attached" component is particularly notable here because due to Federation, instances can choose not to interact with each other, so ultimately one is likely to have multiple accounts on different instances depending on their situation (for example, it wouldn't surprise me that a number of people have a Beehaw account and then another account on a different instance).

I get the concern, but ultimately I see it as a non-issue.

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

It is going to be hard but I think if my instance went down or defederated I would be able to detach from my account and start over.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

you can selfhost it