r/SipsTea • u/DelicateAurora • 8h ago

Lmao gottem Valid point

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u/JX_JR 4h ago

Well then he should know that 85% of people engaging with Reddit or Twitter aren't using the World Wide Web in any way.

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u/iFuckingHateKiwis 3h ago

What if I told you that apps are just thinly disguised and highly specialized web browsers, designed to work with only one particular website?

All the work behind the scenes is just http requests to webservers, just the same as using reddit or twitter on a browser.

So, no, it's not true that 85% of people engaging with reddit or twitter aren't using the www in any way. 100% of people engaging with twitter or reddit are definitely using the WWW.

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u/CurvySexretLady 3h ago

This is not true of how apps for reddit or Twitter work: they interface with an API, not an http webserver.

This is why reddits API policy changes broke all the third party apps, same for Twitter/X third party apps. Its also how X was able to shut down Xcancel by denying it API access.

Anyway, they are far removed from working anything remotely like "a thinly veiled web browser"

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u/iTiraMissU 2h ago

He’s sort of right since most apps (and I assume the Reddit app as well) are written with web technology but that doesn’t make them a browser since it’s all executed locally except the API calls

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u/CurvySexretLady 1h ago

Yes, things like Chromium's web rendering engine are indeed used to handle the display and mockup of the UI and various components.

But no, the app interfaces with reddit behind the scenes with API calls, not http protocols.