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The tech press are Tim levels of cooked. Absolutely nowhere will you see any mention of web apps and PWAs as an alternative to censorious native app stores (I looked), and that's a bloody scandal.

Alex Russell

@infrequently.org

No, web apps aren't 100% censorship resistant. Nothing is. But they aren't also an obvious single point of failure like this. What are the tech press, who all publish on websites, doing?

3/10/25, 6:49 am0 reposts18 likes

Alex Russell

@infrequently.org

3 Oct 2025

(to be clear about the threat model for web apps: threat would be against DNS provider and/or a hosting; those are routinely issued, but some providers are not as cowardly as Apple)

Bumping into people

@bumpingintopeople.bsky.social

3 Oct 2025

The DNS and hosting threats also affect most apps because they need to “talk” to a remote server. There isn’t really any valid points against PWAs. They are less intrusive, easier to build and deploy. Of course, Apple doesn’t get $$ from the developer accounts and sales.