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I have no idea why so many people are upset about Sync. There are so many FOSS alternatives. Just… don’t use it? It literally doesn’t impact you at all.
Voyager is basically as feature rich as sync and only continues to get better. That said I love sync. And its like being in a warm blanket again. I also don’t mind supporting the developer with a one time payment to remove ads. The subscription doesn’t bother me because he offers a fair alternative imo.
How much is the one time payment?
$20 to remove ads. $99 for ultra (includes ad removal and extra features, many of which require servers).
I think the $99 one is more for people who want to be moderators and set up AutoBots and maybe a Decepticon or two. Who am I too judge.
What’s a Decepticon?
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I’m not upset in any way about Sync. It seems like a quality app with a different business model.
What I’m actually upset about is people claiming open source apps are shitty and only Sync is possible to provide a good experience. That’s just pure bs
I might prefer potatoes, but you might hate potatoes.
If we were looking at dishes in a restaurant, I might think one dish is a better value, because I like potatoes. You might think that that dish isn’t worth it if you hate potatoes. It doesn’t mean that the dish is better or worse, just that we have different preferences.
I don’t use sync myself, so I can’t speak on what specific aspects other people prefer over the FOSS apps. They might trust the developer more because they’ve interacted with them for a while, they might like how the UI works with their specific device, or they might even just like the logo. At the end of the day, it doesn’t effect me, as I can just keep using jerboa.
That’s a good analogy. The difference is that I’ve seen some comments saying that they really like potatoes because X sauce combo feel more polished for them (lol), and that’s cool, but I’ve seen several claiming that potatoes are the superior dish, potatoes have way more combinations, potatoes are way better at everything, nothing can compare to potatoes… Omg you can link settings from the app another reason why it’s the best app! (a custom html link that the app parses followed by an id code to redirect the app to that settings page, cool but kinda unnecessary to me).
And, it reaches a point where I just get pissed. 0 consideration, it’s just hostile. Mind you, I also read people saying that it’s the enemy of Foss yada yada, way less people and with tons of downvote at the bottom of the barrel, fuckem.
I’m just seeing quite the high victim complex from the sync users while belittling others, it feels a tiny bit like (and I’m so sorry for making this comparison) chistianity.
I’m just waiting for the wave to pass but it’s still everywhere.
Yeah that’s my take. If you like what you have, just keep using it lol.
I switched to Sync is because it seems to play nicer with my foldable phone than Voyager or Jerboa, but otherwise they’re all pretty much just as solid as each other imoHonestly I’ve seen at least 10 times as much content from people mad about the people mad about sync as I have from people mad about sync.
I’ve been living under a rock, what’s the deal with sync?
The Sync for Reddit Dev has released an app for lemmy. People are salty because it’s way better than any of the foss apps that are currently out.
I’m not sure what people were expecting. It’s not like the sync dev had to start over. I would bet they were able to reuse a huge chunk of the source.
Infinity just dropped, so your time is limited!
Oh I’m definitely going to give it a try once it hits fdroid so it’s easy to update. I’m not somehow thinking that Sync is inherently better than Foss apps. But it was always going to feel more mature. It’s a conversion of an app that’s been in development for 11 years, rather than a brand new app.
Sync for Reddit was a popular app.
After the whole API thing the dev started developing sync for Lemmy.
The open beta was just released.
The free version includes ads.
You can remove ads with a subscription, or with a one time payment of $20.
The Reddit ad free version was like $5, so the price increase pissed some people off.
Also the FOSS or die people got pissed off.
There are many great Lemmy apps, I say just use whatever works best for you.
20$ seems pretty fair to me.
I bought sync for reddit over 10 years ago and used it daily. I had no issue what so ever paying. The app itself is nothing short of top notch quality and you can tell LJ is passionate about his work. He’s continously updating the app and making improvements. Hell, you can spend more at a fast food joint vs the single one time payment option.
or even Connect, which is not open source and used/praised by thousands of people
Tbh I see much more people mentioning the complaining than the actual complaining
What are you goofballs fighting about? Your fav lemmy app? Just scroll in peace
Most of this community came from reddit. This is only as stupid as if the upvote arrow is red or orange.
The dress was black and blue either way.
You shut your dirty whore mouth!
It’s only stupid because it’s clearly orange
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Oi! Kindly throw that elsewhere, you muppet!
(╯ರ ~ ರ)╯︵ ┻━┻
Put that back… (ヘ･_･)ヘ┳━┳
I cant wait for round 2 when Boost launches
Has he said he’s making an app for it?
It’s up for pre-registration on Google Play, and it has a community floating around somewhere. Not quite ready yet, but last I heard he’s getting close.
Got it queued up to download when it’s ready. Boost and Sync were my two reddit apps of choice. I often used boost when sync wouldn’t work on a device I was using.
Think the link is discontinued or something, I can’t find it on the Play Store, and they don’t have any Android links up rn. I’ll just keep waiting patiently…lol
It is still there:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy
I love boost! Can’t wait!
Lol. Yes this is definitely happening.
And Thunder!
And my axe !
And my bow!
Legendary username lol
Thanks! Every day is a good day not to be spez. I really like yours too, afraid I won’t be able to unsee it now.
Also Liftoff!
also as a kbin user
god damn i want a native kbin app!
Artemis was supposed to be coming this week, no word yet.
You also have to use it from the artemis.camp instance, but that’s temporary until the kbin api is finished.
The underlying protocol is identical to Lemmy I thought. Why can’t you use any of the apps already?
Here I am still using Jerboa
Where’s Infinity?
You don’t have to pick sides.
No love for Connect? Best app I’ve used so far.
I’m a RIF refugee, and Connect is definitely filling that void
It’s not FOSS either, that’s why the FOSS people don’t mention it.
I’ve really been liking it, FOSS or not.
What about Lemmios, Avelon and Bean…
Do y’all know your phone has a browser?
It does. But I still use my mail app instead of going to gmail.com, I use my Spotify app instead of going to Spotify.com, I use the YouTube app, etc.
Sometimes a specialized app is just better. For me that’s definitely the case w sync.
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I’m proving their point that sometimes a service is worth paying for (either through cash or by seeing ads)? In that case, yeah I guess I am. Different people have different preferences. Go figure.
The best way to lemmy is mlmym.org on LibreWolf. Works great on Linux phone and has the same old.reddit interface I’ve used for over a decade.
Why waste space on single-purpose apps when you have a browser. Also, websites can’t track you or waste resources when you aren’t actively using them like apps can.
Lacks customization.
Is there a stable FOSS app? I always favor that variety when available.
I’ve had zero issues with Memmy. Maybe one crash in the couple weeks I’ve had it
I’ve been using Memmy for weeks and it’s been fantastic. I was Apollo before, for comparison.
I was on Narwhal before, but a lot of the design is similar.
Another Memmy fan. No issues at all. Memmy on IOS, Voyager on desktop…
Off the top of my head I know that Mlem, Memmy, and Jerboa are FOSS. Most of the others probably are too, but those are the ones I have ready to hand
Voyager, Liftoff, Thunder.
Liftoff has been super stable all the time I’ve used it, Infinity for Lemmy is surprisingly stable for something new, I’ve had no crashes at all. Both of them are updating very quickly and get better all the time.
I AM A WEFWEF/VOYAGER PERSON NEVER FORGET WHAT THEY TOOK FROM US (uses iPhone ui on android)
Liftoff is the only app that does swipe anywhere to go back so it’s the only real usable alternative so far
On Memmy and swipe for back is working
We must not be on the same version then. In Memmy I can only swipe anywhere on the bottom menu bar to go back (and of course from the left edge of the screen like all apps).
Can confirm I just tested it.
Infinity for lemmy does that too
I tried Thunder yesterday and it also has that feature.
So does Memmy, does it not?
Me again, it doesn’t seem to work with swipe anywhere in the comment section though. Too bad :( I hope they’ll fix it because the app (Thunder) seems nice. Back to Liftoff…
Does liftoff do it from the comment section? I haven’t tried it. And if so does that interfere with your upvote/downvote swipes? (If it has that) I tried turning off the upvote/downvote swipes on thunder and it still wouldn’t let me swipe out of a post from the comments but now that I think about it, I wouldn’t want that unless it was only just one half of the screen so I could still upvote. I keep going back to Voyager because it feels like Apollo and I’m hoping they’ll emplement the swipe back at least from the post portion soon. I’ve got like 5-6 apps for Lemmy on my iPad. It’s pretty great we’re getting so much to choose from.
I’m like you, I also switch between many and Voyager sure is very Apollo like. And one of the apps that most consistently works.
Yeah, Liftoff allows for swipe anywhere also on comments. That’s how I personally want it, different behaviours depending on where you are is not very nice. You can still swipe left to upvote or save I believe, I am not sure if itself possible to change that yet.
The best thing would just be if one app managed to copy Apollo, it is the gold standard in usability.
I also think it’s very impressive with so many cool apps. Fantastic developers. But I kind of wish I had just one that was suiting.
Thanks for the tip, trying it now and it seems nice!
It works perfectly fine on Sync
Sync does this too, and you can enable a discord style sliding drawer too
I set my android to use swipe gesture to go back. So this is not an issue for me. Anyways. Posting this using Voyager
also plugging infinity for lemmy, it’s really good, but incomplete as of the moment.
Thanks for the tip. I’m on iOS. I didn’t know you could set swipe anywhere on the screen in Android to go back. That’s cool.
