Can't we just be happy that we're not on Reddit instead of fighting over which UI we prefer!?
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Maybe the real Reddit was the arguments with friends we made along the way
The fact we can even pick between multiple UIs is a blessing lol
Jeroba on mobile, web app inside of firefox with adblockers on desktop.
I used Jeroba while I was waiting for sync to come out. Personally it's really no competition, it's great that it is being worked on but Jeroba is significantly worse in every way except for being open source. Hopefully someday it will be great!
Synk is just so polished comparatively everything else feels unfinished
My reply to all the naysayers:
Thanks for making Lemmy feel like home, it wouldn't without you!
The reality is it's a free world, regardless of what morality you put on things there are going to be things that happen that you don't like. That's life.
Like it or not Lemmy has had explosive growth because of apps like Sync. Because of them being killed off by Reddit. If it weren't for the drama of Reddit doing that, I and millions of other users wouldn't be here right now as we'd still be on Reddit.
Even people who weren't using the 3rd party apps left Reddit because Reddit's actions left a bad taste in their mouths.
So, morality of one guy charging for his honest work in creating the paid or ad supported app aside, you should be thanking the apps including sync for helping drive so many users to Lemmy.
If you yourself don't want to use a paid app, then that's okay! We're all allowed to respond or react to things how we want, but being incredibly divisive for something that a lot of people wanted and that really is inconsequential is almost universally frowned on.
Just let people do what they want and don't shoot them down for it. More options for browsing Lemmy = more Lemmings = more content.
Much love my dudes! We may disagree on this but we agree on many many many more things I'm sure, just because we're on Lemmy instead of Reddit in the first place is proof of that! βοΈ
Well put. Also, I hope this whole topic dies soon.
Honestly I'm using, and especially posting on, Lemmy much more often now that I have sync back.
I had been using Sync for Reddit for so many years that it became muscle memory. Now I have it back and things just feel right.
People care too much about which app you use. At the end of the day, as long as you're happy with sync it shouldn't matter
Personally, I don't give a flying fuck what client any of you use as long as you are here. :)
Hear hear!
Remember folks whether you choose to use sync or another lemmy app none of us are using reddits shitty mobile app and in that way we are all winners
One thing I didn't like from Reddit, the elitism and gatekeeping posts from its users. OP, I'm right there with you.
$20 to support a solo dev AND remove ads from his awesome lemmy client? Sweet!
Shouldn't an ethical human choose tools that do more good than harm? As long as an application does that, does it matter if it's open source or not? The software we use in our daily lives is a personal choice and people shouldn't be shamed for choosing a closed source application. Especially one created by an independent, craftsman software company. Sync, and other well-designed for-profit clients, benefit Lemmy, an open platform. That benefits all.
Let me add, many of us are social media refugees, fleeing exploitative and closed platforms like Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook. There is also nothing wrong with continually evaluating the closed source solutions we choose to prevent repeating past mistakes.
I don't know about doing good or harm but I've used sync for reddit for years and years. The dev isn't some big corporation and that's generally enough for me. I'll support them as long as their app has the experience that I prefer. I tried a few different apps until sync came out and I really gave them all a fair shot but none of them felt right. The fact that so many users bailed to Lemmy because Reddit broke third party apps and then turned around and got up people's butts for using specific third party apps is kind of hilarious to me. A huge wave of users came here for sync etc and people are trying to push them away or bully them like reddit did? They might not be bullying for the same exact reason but it's got the same vibe imo.
It does seem like a large number of Lemmy users are elitist snobs. I thought this place was turning out better than Reddit, but it's looking like I was wrong. People like that ruin platforms like this and sour the experience.
FOSS and focus on privacy does that to some people, they feel superior because they worry about those things they see as being beneficial.
I'm sure many of the users from the before time were here specifically to not use a closed source, data gathering platform, so they're a bigger proportion of users than they were on Reddit and they tolerate the most extreme elements of their community that also happen to be the most vocal.
TL;DR: Reddit is for normies and now normies are in a platform where radicals were everywhere and part of the majority before they arrived.
Sometimes those extreme privacy preachers remind me of doomsday preppers.
I too reduced my data finger print, started using uBlock, thought more often if the data in a registration form is really needed for the service they provide (and didn't register when in doubt), and so on....
I don't have Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter (anymore), the only things I have are Reddit, Lemmy and Mastodon.
Still I don't inspect every bit going through my network with Wireshark and PiHole to see, if some packet sent while watching a movie may contain personal data. At some point you gotta live a little instead of full-time fear mongering, doomsday preaching for the tech apocalypse.
I have reduced my digital fingerprints by a large margin with common sense, I don't need a 100% privacy speedrun, what counts is that you do something. And the effects show, especially in the form of less spam and recommendations for items you'll never need.
Google knows which topics I search for, big whoop, wouldn't be much of a search engine otherwise.
yeah i just dont care
Not a sync user but cant wait for infinity for lemmy to be mature enough to appear on fdroid
I've been using it over the last few days and I'm pretty impressed with it so far. Before that I was using connect, then sync but didn't like the ads and insane prices, also tried out a few others but ultimately settled with infinity.
I've been using infinity for reddit ever since sync died and I find it's quite polished and runs the smoothest out of all the apps I've tried, even smoother then sync for lemmy. The only bug I've ran into is trying to press the profile button on the navigation draw at the bottom crashes the app but it still works from the hamburger menu.
Iβm not an Android user, so I donβt know Sync, but itβs bound to be a better Lemmy app than those godawful cross platform ones. Iβm glad it exists!
Ohana means family
Obligatory G'day from the kbin PWA :)
We're still waiting for our native app.
I'm absolutely thrilled to have sync on the Fediverse, and will happily pay for a yearly subscription to help ensure LJD has sufficient compensation to keep the app up-to-date with whatever changes come to the Android/Lemmy APIs years down the road.
The problem with (even excellent) free apps for platforms like this, is they require consistent maintenance to keep up with both the platform they run on (Android), and the platform they serve content for (Lemmy). That is not a trivial amount of work, and is absolutely deserving of continued, recurring compensation IMO.
A one-time payment might make sense for a simple native game that gets produced once, has no web component, and never needs another update for its entire lifetime, but not for this. You aren't paying for a singular product, you're paying for a service. You wouldn't go to the barber and winged about needing to pay every time I get my hair cut.
As a software engineer I find it miraculous the amount of people that whine about somebody wanting to get paid for putting weeks, months, and years of their life into a product 100s of thousands of people CHOOSE to use.
Lol that's an iPhone.
Shhhh. I couldn't find an equivalent meme with Android (I didn't even notice TBH), so pretend I hacked an iPhone to run android π.
Honestly, just use whatever works for you, I think it's a good idea to have a discussion about the amount so a few more people who pay for the client maybe also donate a little towards their home instance but I don't care about Sync anymore and I am sick of it! Can we please get some kind of word filters to block stuff?
After reading through comments. This a hot topic