I was looking forward to trying Sync today now that it’s live, but my enthusiasm was immediately dampened after seeing the “Data Safety” section on the Google Play store.

Liftoff has been great, and want to say thanks for making an awesome app. This will continue to be my daily driver.

Edit: for clarity, because the post got way bigger than I expected.

Sync looks like a fantastic app, and the dev/s should charge whatever they feel is fair for their efforts, even if that’s through the usual ads + ad tracking.

My intent was just to post here in /c/Liftoff to thank the Liftoff devs for managing to somehow offer an awesome app without any of that.

  • donut4ever@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12431·
    11 months ago

    You have other free and amazing options that sync has no advantages over. They are all just as good, if not better.

    1. Liftoff
    2. Thunder
    3. Jerboa
    4. Connect
    5. Voyager (my favorite so far)
    6. Infinity for Lemmy. Early development, but still free and no ads

    I don’t get why I would go for sync, get tracked, watch ads or pay a monthly subscription!

    • Melco@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      11 months ago

      Disagree with Thunder it also contains user tracking code. The developer said said he might consider removing it someday.

      Liftoff and Jerboa are solid choices however.

      • donut4ever@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I thought you could just disable it from the settings? I mean, it is open source, so anyone can just fork it if the dev starts fucking around

    • can@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Summit (#1 in my heart), also lemmotif is in early development but has promise.

      • joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        Whoa summit is pretty nice. I’ve been using Connect but maybe not anymore.

    • notenoughbutter@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      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

      • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        11 months ago

        A better question is, what does Liftoff lack that others don’t?

        I miss being able to hide posts, for example.

        • player2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          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.

          • maaj@lemmy.worldEnglish
            24·
            11 months ago

            I hear you, but nothing matters after ads, trackers, and money. Which is why I should also say that if you download and use TrackerControl from f-droid, you wont see ads on Sync, which is neat. My heart still lies with liftoff, they added double tap home button to scroll to the top and I about lost my shit in excitement, lol.

      • Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        20·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • sudo@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Does Liftoff offer keyword filtering or blocking instances at the account level?

        • jennwiththesea@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          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.

        • Cadenza@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          11 months ago

          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.

            • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              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.

              I mean when you get a notification about a response and it takes you to the comment. It just shows you the comment. And then you click on Show Context. And here I was hoping it would scroll to the location of the comment in the post.

    • Stumblinbear@pawb.socialEnglish
      807·
      11 months ago

      Hard disagree. I find Sync the best user experience so far, including the best looking UI hands down

      • pavlov@lemmy.worldEnglish
        422·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • Vanon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          151·
          11 months ago

          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).

          • Laice@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            11 months ago

            Well the years of work is literally that. Sync for lemmy is based on sync for reddit base. Or so it seems

    • OceanSoap@lemmy.mlEnglish
      141·
      11 months ago

      Lol, claiming that Jerboa is just as good if not better than sync is wild!

      • Spaceape@lemmy.nrsk.noEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        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.

    • monobot@lemmy.mlEnglish
      619·
      11 months ago

      And for me, font is just too smal and hard to setup in Sync. And slow.

      Jerboa wins again.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      262·
      11 months ago

      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!