anyway lemme just say rn that interoperability is more important than ~decentralization~ and p2p is useless if you have to install 100 different p2p apps just to communicate with everybody

semirelated but i just got done trying out a bunch of terribly broken xmpp clients for ios so that's where part of my ire is coming from, lol

really seems to me like when people say "ios has better apps than android" they're only referring to commercial/corporate offerings like snapchat and instagram

because lemme tell ya, i have not been able to find any good productivity apps for ios at *all* in the past week. no truly good email/xmpp/masto/calendar+tasks/etc apps at all. sure, some are passable, decent even. but not what i would call "good".

even apps like inoreader which i use for rss are... awkward to use? and that's not entirely from the app itself, i feel... a big part is how ios is designed.

example: to mark an article as read, why do i have to swipe all the way across the screen? my finger gets tired. a swipe action shouldn't be that long, but every single ios app has the "long swipe" paradigm.

@trwnh now I finally get why I accidentally swipe stuff in Android all the time ugh I've literally accidentally deleted emails and then missed the "undo" popup

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@trwnh (I'm coming from iOS but I had an iPhone 5 where there isn't too much screen to swipe across)

@noiob i mean i'm using an SE which is basically a 5S body which was mostly same as the 5, but it's still just a little too much for me. to be fair it's harder to accidentally swipe when you have to swipe the entire screen almost, but i still prefer shorter swipes. especially for reversible actions like read/unread, fave/unfave.

@trwnh Iirc you can swipe faster but shorter but yeah, I agree, some things can be shorter

@trwnh I just checked in my email app (the one that LG preinstalled) and it's less than a centimeter and then I have to catch the undo button, maybe I should look for a better app 😄

@noiob wish i could recommend k9 mail but eh i use gmail for android, which is sadly still the best email app on any platform despite getting worse recently

@trwnh I tried Gmail and didn't like it, can't remember why tbh

@trwnh wtf they changed everything since I last used it

@noiob yeah they tend to do that

update before last was pretty good. the new hollow icons and blinding whiteness of google material was a downgrade imo, but it's only an aesthetic change so the functionality is still the same

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