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It's bizarre to me how, on this decentralised and FOSS platform with a ton of clients already available, people have been only waiting for the closed source one (with ads and payment to boot if I'm not mistaken?).
To each their own, but it's still a sad state of society.
A very limited amount of people care or even know what FOSS is. Sync helps a lot of people access Lemmy, et al with a minimum of friction in general since it's something familiar to them or trusted. Building communities requires accessibility and ease of access overall.
Also, there's not much you can glean from this about society. A lot of this language just sounds like really weird gatekeeping.
Why is everyone so defensive about this? I was using Slide and Infinity on Reddit for years, I was familiar with them - and now I'm using something else. I adapted.
In fact I use a multitude of things, right now a I'm writing from the native PWA. Later I'll switch to Jerboa or Liftoff or maybe I'll be testing Infinity.
Yea people unwilling to adapt, try new things, unable to see the entire point of this network, and instead just running to the "familiar" without looking around and trying to understand what's actually happening - yes, it is a small peak to society, because we see the same behaviour in all aspects of life.
And that's happening when there are good FOSS clients available already. I don't think anyone saying Sync is unmatched in terms of smoothness has tried Infinity yet.
Use a fixing VPN and the free version, FFS. Even then, it's light years beyond the other attempts at Lemmy readers.
Absolutely. No thanks