PWAs are good

No, not in terms of user experience. In fact, they provide a subpar user experience. And some times they are straight away user hostile.

On Threads, at times the profile picture fails to load or the media in the post itself fails to load.

Profile picture did not load
Media did not load

And many a times I can even see a loading icon if I scroll too far at the bottom. It seems pre-fetch doesn’t work well on PWAs.

Still pre fetching data

Twitter/X takes its own sweet time to load.

Still loading

YouTube on web defaults to video lower resolution. 

I could go on and on. And that is what makes them good. 

They are good at keeping me off the meaningless content and doom scrolling. I use social media less because the experience on PWA is bad. 

Go PWA!

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