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What's your guys general thought on how everything is web based now? For me, I don't really like it. I would just rather have an actual program that runs. But I am merely a user, not a programmer.

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[–] moseschrute@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It’s cloud services, not things being web based. It’s capitalism hijacking technology and preventing you from owning anything. Figma runs in the browser and it’s a fantastic piece of software. But it’s also a cloud service that can be taken away from you at any point. But if you subtract the business model, the fact that you can run something like that in the browser is incredible. Web makes it so incredibly easy to distribute cross platform software. FOSS should embrace it and use it to build actually good software not all this SASS garbage.

[–] tetrislife@leminal.space 3 points 9 hours ago

That is what Delta Chat and Monocles do on different protocols, with WebXDC. https://webxdc.org/