They don’t prioritize mobile users, they prioritize mobile apps - easier to track and gather telemetry, easier to show ads (harder to use adblock), easier to send notifications, you can expect the user to return if they already downloaded an app.

There are Instagram proxies like imginn that you can use to new stories and posts

Use RTINGS next time for electronics reviews. They’re so much more in-depth than any other review site; they test every single aspect of the products and lay out the info in a manner that’s easy to understand, while still providing all the technical jargon for geeks like me. And no mobile number needed, either. The site is well-optimized for desktop.

I have a feeling there are more mobile users than PC users now.

I mean, its been more than a decade since mobile traffic overtook desktop web traffic. So yeah, it makes sense to prioritize mobile especially if they can get you to install their (spyware)app.

I’m sure it is a different ratio for things like B2B.

check out pixelfed its like instagram but on the fediverse and its been in browser up until the app released only yesterday so you can do both now but browser is where its at

This shouldn’t really be surprising, I’d think most people’s internet usage is probably on their phone, and has been for some time.

People don’t want to sit at a desk or whatever and browse or do their socials stuff, they want to do it sat on the sofa while the TV is on or in between chores in the house.

I think the last two companies I’ve worked for, both B2C have had mobile web and app usage way higher than desktop web.

Yes, I hate it. In fact, I hate most of the impact of smartphones on the internet:

• I’m not giving you my phone number. Shu’up. Stop asking.
• I’m not installing your broken browser made for a single site. Aka, your “app”. And if you don’t let me check your site without that “app”, I am not doing it.
• My screen is larger than it is high; most [all?] smartphones are the opposite. Smart web devs can deal with it, except that those are a minority, so guess what - I get blank space on both sides!
• I’ve noticed that the same people people have worse basic reading comprehension when using a phone than a computer; that’s anecdotal but based on both myself and people whom I interact personally with. And I’m tempted to blame the sorry state of social media partially on that.

I only ever browse social media on a PC and that’s the way it will always be. Sometimes I can’t help but feel like desktop/computer users are becoming an afterthought. Anyone else have similar feelings? 🫠

They are. This gives much better control to them of what we’re doing when we’re doingon ‘our’ phone, and much less control to us at the same time. It’s a Win-Win situation… for them only. And a lose-lose for us (worse experience and much less control of it).

That’s one of the reasons I refuse to use my phone to do anything… where I still have the option.

I know it’s not what you were asking about, but you will probably find this website helpful: https://www.rtings.com/

They are by far the best consumer electronic rating website I’ve ever seen. There’s a table view where you can do things like show me all computer monitors that have black frame insertion or show me all headphones with an audio delay of less than 5 ms and other weirdly specific stuff like that.

On Instagram

Funny you describe all the annoyances of web vs mobile, but visit this awful site. Instagram wont let me see anything at all, web, mobile or otherwise because I don’t and won’t have an account.

Maybe avoiding social media all together is a better idea.

I used to be upset by all the mobile shit and then I went to college for computer stuff and started hating looking at computers after working on them all day. Now I’m a help desk tech and I don’t own a working computer of my own because using them outside of work feels like work. If I can’t do something official on mobile, I just get permission to do it on my work computer. If something for fun doesn’t have a mobile version, I don’t do whatever that thing is.

I do not like all the requests for phone numbers and shit, though. Just let me look at the site without being bothered.

I’m also frustrated. But at work the other day I learned that like 75% of our usage is from mobile phone users. Sometimes you just have to realize you’re in the minority; and that other people will make bad choices.

Ironically enough I only use lemmy on my phone (browser or voyager) and it works way better than desktop for some reason. I couldn’t even get a post to work on firefox the other day, and images were not loading.

It’s okay. They are wrong for using their mobile phones for everything. PCMR brother. Never change.