technically the catsweat thing is a running gag from the old Bloom County cartoon strip. cats dont actually sweat (maybe a bit through their paws), but realistically, no sweat.
Bloom County ran an arc where they extracted cat sweat and sold it as a remarkably effective 'hair growth tonic'.... until it later had the opposite effect and everyone who used it went bald
the word 'moist' just makes people uncomfortable, so of course thats what you name a social media server.
i went surfing for server applications about 8 months ago in an effort to replace my reddit addiction.
lemmy had 2 marks against it:
a. its fugly
b. does not interact with 50% of the fediverse... it cant use the 'microblog/twitter' side of the fediverse.
kbin at the time was one of the few products attempting both the Threaded forums, and Microblog posting, so i jumped in to that. a short time later kbin was forked for.. development conflict reasons. i went with mbin.
so i now have a fairly scalable, reliable reddit replacement where i can doomscroll all day and see nonsense tweets from george takei.
im hoping to provide the same for other reddit refugees
im not an 'app' person, so i have no idea. i do know there were several in active development, but i just have not cared.
firefox on my phone seems to do exactly what i need to with regards to mbin (or reddit even), so i have never, ever understood the need for a site-specific app.
i kinda thought thats why we spent 20 years making 'reflexive' websites designed to be scalable to different sized screens
Its just conveniant to use apps and when lemmy apps just take little to no space and can switch between account, have better UI, faster reflex as in backing clicking without needing to load it etc etc its just better to use it atleast in my opinion and some websites are not properly made for phones . But if it works for you no problem
i think my basic use of the sites negates the need for any app. i dont 'do' a lot. i could see maybe if i performed a ton of actions, or as you mentioned, using any alts.
ive never had/needed alt accounts so, also that is also somewhat foreign to me.
Here's my girls Charlotte and Emily, sisters from the same litter. Charlotte was all up in my grill because I was eating chicken and Emily was spawn camping while I was heating said chicken in the oven 😄
