apparently Lemmy thinks this is such a stupid question it doesn’t belong on NoStupidQuestions 🤷♀️
Yeah, I was wondering why so many downvotes
Downvoting a stupid question in a no stupid questions community is just plain wrong yall.
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.
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?
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.
Because there are entire ecosystems that don’t have iOS or Android app comparability. Mainly MacOS, Windows, and Linux.
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.
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.
