Better question: why would you install a security risk social media app on your phone?
In addition to other reasons given, I see their web interfaces as recruitment methods.
People who don’t have the app can still click links which bring them to the FB/IG/Tw websites - and then that could be enough to get them interested enough to then go on and install the full app especially when they find out how restricted the websites are.
Downvoting a stupid question in a no stupid questions community is just plain wrong yall.
apparently Lemmy thinks this is such a stupid question it doesn’t belong on NoStupidQuestions 🤷♀️
Yeah, I was wondering why so many downvotes
Because there are entire ecosystems that don’t have iOS or Android app comparability. Mainly MacOS, Windows, and Linux.
I’m glad they do as that’s the only way I access those platforms. Same applies for twitter. Using an app means I can’t block ads.
They make it so painful though to obviously twist people’s arms into installing their data harvesting apps. Facebook on mobile is so stripped down and actually freezes half the times you try to use it.
Meta apps are some of the worst spyware. When I occasionally need to use Facebook, I use the web interface only, so I don’t need to install the apps.
You need it to share URLs. You can’t know the device it will be opened on. Also, news articles sometimes embed them, which they use to hoard information about readers.
I was really hoping this would say “why does Facebook and Instagram provide a web interface when their crappy platforms rarely show content unless you’re using their app”.
At this point it’s purely a performance that they even offer a web interface to their platform.
Same goes for Twitter.
Instagram is especially awful when using a web browser… but pintrest wins my award for the best black hole of all time. Information goes into pintrest and then it dies forever.
Because only most users use the app, some still use the web for what ever reason. Gotta give your customer what they want.
Also what about those on a pc?
Also what about those on a pc?
this could be the reason why they still provides the web interface ig.
An extra way to get more data , this time from people who doesn’t download the app for whatever reasons ( like low storage for example )
I don’t download apps if the place has a website. I don’t want some garbage company on my phone unless it’s in a browser. Infact most applications are just trash and show limited functionality of the website, nothing more. Most program d are literally useless trash.
There was a time Instagram is only accessible using mobile apps.
that’s interesting… I wonder why they revert the changes.
AFAIR, Instagram started mobile only.
Then they made the service available in more platforms.
Correct, and likely because some people refuse to download the apps. I know I was one of them. I say was because I now do my best to not use their services at all, and where I do need to, I use a third-party app so I can use one app for multiple messaging services.
