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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.
Honestly 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.
Tbh I see much more people mentioning the complaining than the actual complaining
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 imoor even Connect, which is not open source and used/praised by thousands of people
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.
I love boost! Can’t wait!
Lol. Yes this is definitely happening.
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.
It’s only stupid because it’s clearly orange
The dress was black and blue either way.
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.
I AM A WEFWEF/VOYAGER PERSON NEVER FORGET WHAT THEY TOOK FROM US (uses iPhone ui on android)
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?
the protocol that allows instances to communicate is, but AFAIK there’s an API that apps use… the protocol is kinda just for how to push raw bulk data around, whilst the instance itself does things like filter based on “top”, “hot”, etc
also, in activitypub things like the actor (user), each comment, post, etc are individual objects which must be requested individually (or in a list via a search i think?), so any app that communicates via activitypub would need to make hundreds of requests to the instance to display a single post, comments, and user information!
Where’s Infinity?
Here I am still using Jerboa
Do y’all know your phone has a browser?
I bet half the people pretending Sync to be some malicious spyware have set Chrome as their default browser
I wish it was that low.
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.
Right there with you. I use —reddit— lemmy on my phone on the go. I want a button in a consistent place that opens it quickly.
I open my browser, oops I was looking at another tab I’ll just go through my tabs to find the specific website I’m looking for this time. At that point the browser is just its own app picker inside of another app picker. I have even added links to my Home Screen as well, but I’ve run into many issues with opening loads of dupes and clogging up my tabs. Maybe browser works in a perfect world (or even just a world where I save links in pocket or something instead of tabs idk) but it kind of just seems like an app browser with extra steps. Browser elitists do themselves no favors acting high and mighty about literally just not having an app? About saving 70MB like it’s 1999? Idk it’s a dumb argument. Everybody’s solution works for them.
Gmail is literally ad-infested, while Spotify and YouTube charge $13-14 per month for their ad free version unless you download a cracked app lol
You’re just proving their point now
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.
Lacks customization.
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.
What about Lemmios, Avelon and Bean…
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
Another Memmy fan. No issues at all. Memmy on IOS, Voyager on desktop…
Awesome, installing it now.
I’ve been using Memmy for weeks and it’s been fantastic. I was Apollo before, for comparison.
I think I have like 5 Lemmy apps installed, including the voyager web app, but I keep coming back to Memmy.
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
I’d tired Mlem when it first released and had some crashing issues. I’ll give it and Memmy another go. Thanks!
It’s come leaps and bounds since it launched–I’ve been stalking the GitHub and the current dev build is nice. The App Store version is still a little rough but they’ve got an update in beta that smooths it out a lot
Memmy is the best I have found. A lot of the issues recently have been related to instance problems like with lemmy.world. Stuff that Memmy isn’t at fault for.
That said, I am very excited to try the Voyager iOS App when it releases!
Voyager, Liftoff, Thunder.
Liftoff is the only app that does swipe anywhere to go back so it’s the only real usable alternative so far
I tried Thunder yesterday and it also has that feature.
So does Memmy, does it not?
On Memmy and swipe for back is working
Can confirm I just tested it.
Infinity for lemmy does that too
It works perfectly fine on Sync
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.
Sync does this too, and you can enable a discord style sliding drawer too
No love for Connect? Best app I’ve used so far.
I’m a RIF refugee, and Connect is definitely filling that void
I’m trying it as of today and I dig it. Popping over to boost when it’s ready though, I was a loyal user for years
Forgot Liftoff and Bean.
