this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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Liftoff!
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Hard disagree. I find Sync the best user experience so far, including the best looking UI hands down
I've been using Voyager until today. It was a fine app, but anyone who thinks it holds a candle to Sync is off their rocker. Sync has more features, runs far more smoothly, and looks a hell of a lot better.
Exactly. I don't think many of the people who are claiming Sync is no better than others have actually used and thoroughly explored Sync, even for Reddit.
The customization options are incredible. Beautiful UI. Backup options. Filters. Settings that are fine tuned, and separate per account. It feels like years of work and polish, compared to weeks or months for others. Others work fine (fan of Liftoff), getting better, but I'm blown away with Dawson and Sync. The "ad outrage" is disappointing and silly to me at this stage (literally day one).
I prefer Infinity
(Sadly the Lemmy version is not ready yet)
Yeah, the free apps have really raised the bar. I think there's a lot of passion out there for the fediverse and non-corporate social media.
I haven't tried Voyager yet, but it sounds like I should give it a shot!
Lol, claiming that Jerboa is just as good if not better than sync is wild!
Isn't that down to what one individually consider "good"?
I find notepad-style text editors better word processors than Microsoft's online Office system. It's not because notepads are technically better or more visually appealing. It's because I value not being tracked more.
Yup! That’s why nobody can like whichever client they prefer. Having different opinions is completely incomprehensible and utterly baffling. Why wouldn’t everyone love the same?
Summit (#1 in my heart), also lemmotif is in early development but has promise.
Whoa summit is pretty nice. I've been using Connect but maybe not anymore.
Fucking love Infinity. Amazing what the devs are doing in a short amount of time
ROFLCOPTER
claiming these are just as good as sync just tells what you expect the apps to do
but what I've seen and (a lot of the other posters) is that sync is a whole lot smoother than all these apps and is the most feature-rich client
if getting tracked is your main problem in using sync, just use nextdns or pihole to block connections to google servers or pay up (currently only using google, I wish there was some other way)
I've read sync for reddit stopped connections to google after paying up
What does liftoff have that the others don't?
For one, it handles account switching much more smoothly than most apps I've tried.
While viewing a post, commenting, searching, or posting, you can choose your originating instance from a drop-down. Most other apps have to reload your feed and/or relaunch.
It's been really helpful for me whenever an instance is bogged down or acting funny, and I can just hop over without losing my place.
Oh man I didn't even see that in the menu. That is handy.
Liftoff is great, it's true. Sadly, it lacks the only feature I'm after : hide read posts on scroll. Saw requests for this not being answered, so I guess it's not coming.
Great app I admit, but a hard pass for me because of this.
I'd love this to be added too.
I want it to scroll to the comment in the post. I'm always manually trying to find the context of a comment by scrolling and looking.
Yes, this is really handy every time world gets attacked. I still have my world account set as my main, but it's super easy to just switch over.
A better question is, what does Liftoff lack that others don't?
I miss being able to hide posts, for example.
In Sync settings under View Type, you can enable the option to hide a post from the main feed view. In fact, there's a lot of additional features that can be enabled and customized, the options menu is enormous and it really can be customized to your personal preferences.
thing is, with all you list (and sync) the key thing is there is CHOICE
Nobody is forcing anyone to use Sync. If you don't like the model it uses, then use something else that better fits what you want. People in this thread are acting like its compulsory to use sync.
BUT. what sync will do is bring people over from reddit. Sync for Reddit was hugely popular and there are tens of thousands of people that used Sync for years that had not shown any interest in Lemmy. Sync will bring some of those to this community which can only be a benefit to everyone.
Don't like it, don't use it.
Infinity is coming? Is it similar to the reddit version? And where can I see updates for it?
Yep! Here's the website where you can find it right now: https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy
You can download it from the Releases section manually or install and keep it updated with Obtainium
I tried adding it to Obtanium, but it says "could not find suitable release"
Hmm, that's strange, I'm on version
0.13.22
and my phone's architecture isarm64v8a
, what's your setup?Enable the prereleases slider
This solved the issue, thanks!
I used Sync for a long time on Reddit, but there didn't seem to be any free clients (with no ads) there.
I like "no ads" a lot more than I like "a very slightly better UI", and the free ones for Lemmy offer enough for what I need. I don't know what a paid one could offer over that to convince me to buy it.
And for me, font is just too smal and hard to setup in Sync. And slow.
Jerboa wins again.
You can edit that in settings, but I appreciate that a new app has a learning curve.
Settings shortcut: General > Base font size
Settings shortcut: View type > Title font
Settings shortcut: View type > Description font
Settings shortcut: View type > Selftext font
Settings shortcut: Comments > Comment body font line space multiplier