The importance of the browser

Posted Thu 13 Apr, 2023.

I have been working from home for over three years now and, turns out, now I have less chances to use Internet on my phone -unless it is connected to my WiFi at home-.

After many months using about a 10% of my monthly allowance, when my mobile phone provider was raising prices (again), I downsized to reduce the bill.

Well, I went 12 days on holiday and turns out that my new contract is a bit tight. So as I was watching my consumption going up too fast -because coincidentally it was my birthday an my sister called me on videoconference via Signal-, I saw that I still had Lagrange installed on my Android phone.

The "about" text of Lagrange on GitHub reads "A Beautiful Gemini Client", and it is beautiful indeed -specially on Android, on Linux feels a bit out of place IMHO-.

I spent some quality time reading capsules. A few of them new, because looks like most of the people I used to read don't write any more, and some old ones, still adding a bit of drama to Gemini -don't miss that part, really-. And all without using a lot of data, which in this case was perfect.

All this made me think: Gemini leaves the presentation to the client, if Lagrange wasn't such a great browser on Android, would I bother to browse the Gemini space on my phone? Probably not.

I suspect this is also true for a lot of people on their desktops.

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