• Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    We do have those? Unless you mean something for pc. In which case my followup is who the hell is viewing lemmy (or reddit, etc.) on a desktop?

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        1 year ago

        Is there a reason why? I was doing a joke or bit originally, but I do wonder these random things.

        In my own life I basically took to smartphone app usage over desktop browsers (or laptops) nearly immediately when I got my first in my early 20s. I’ve now come to the point where I find browsing written forums on non-mobile almost painful and only do it for troubleshooting type purposes. Same for consuming media like news or YouTube videos and such. Some things just seem to take to using as background, distracting scrolling and now that I know that I can’t go back. Although one desktop I had years back for about two years was boring as fuck and the IT somehow didn’t block reddit so I used that on desktop just so my bosses thought I was doing stuff and not on my phone (bad service there anyway and IT never seemed to care unless it was incredibly over the line nsfw stuff)

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          It’s mostly a matter of personal preference. I prefer mouse and keyboard to touch controls most (but not all) of the time. I tend to be very wordy and find a physical keyboard to be a lot easier to use than a virtual one. I tend to prefer larger screens over smaller ones. I really like the personalization options that are available on desktop for a lot of things through third-party tools, apps, and extensions that are more common on desktop than on mobile. Things like that.

          I have a smartphone and a tablet, both of which I use for particular things and have used for social media (mostly RIF), but if ever there was the choice of using a desktop or laptop instead, I’d go for that. Unless something is enhanced with touch controls, and I have never found that any social media that I use is, I just don’t prefer mobile platforms. And for a short time, I had a laptop that had a touchscreen, and honestly liked that a lot more than using my phone for some of the things they could both do.

          Just to establish my own timeline, I got my first cell phone when I was about thirteen, and I got my first smartphone when I was in my late teens if I recall correctly. So it’s not like I haven’t been around them long enough. I just never found a preference for them.

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      1 year ago

      I spend most of my waking hours on a laptop because of work, so I browse reddit/lemmy on a desktop browser more than my phone.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe the admins can check their connection logs and tell us how many accounts (like me) are viewing on desktop versus mobile.

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        1 year ago

        I think reddit always favored desktop.

        I was doing a bit of a bit anyway. Kind of a long standing, very niche, very low level background rivalry between desktop and mobile users. In the same vein as iOS vs android but even more irrelevant and pointless. My favorite type of bit.