I sometimes feel out of place in the late 2010s. I feel like a person stuck in late 2000s. I use a laptop and I dislike mobile phones because you cannot hack and change them the way you’d hack a laptop/desktop. I avoid using apps when there’s a browser alternative. I avoid using payment services and taxi aggregators. I don’t use Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram. The major social media platform that I currently use is twitter and that too only on my laptop. For chat I use a self-hosted XMPP service run by my brother.

I just wanted to see how much out of place I am. Sometime ago, I saw someone tweeting “I’m never leaving this app”, refering to twitter as an ‘app’. That sentence was rather alien to me – I never viewed twitter as an app. I always feel that accessing any service in mobile phones are very constraining. Hence I ran a poll asking how people access twitter:

Turns out most people access via twitter app or any mobile browser. No one exclusively used desktop. Desktop browser was a secondary option and twitter app and mobile browser were the primary means. I searched in random in twitter for other similar polls and got something similar.

I’ve never used twitter app, but I assume that it is convenient and portable as compared to a laptop. With so many people using apps, I wonder - will be a time when support for desktop browser will be completely stopped by most services?