Connect: Am I a joke to you?
Why do none of these memes mention connect? It’s the best one.
I’ve tried Connect and it failes to save imagesfor me. So maybe some incompatibility or something, but now I’m trying to live with Liftoff
I dunno, Connect was the one I probably liked the least out of the 1.34 million I tried.
I wondered the same thing.
It’s definitely the best one after Sync.
If you think that’s the best one, you haven’t tried Sync.
Bad take.
Those who say that, haven’t tried Sync.
I actually tried it before, didn’t feel it was that much better over the open source alternatives
This is why Syncpissers should be nudged away. Shilling spyware everywhere.
Well we are spoiled for choice none the less
This. It’s not for me. But I’m glad it exists.
Actually I’ve been using Jerboa for long enough that I’ve really gotten used to it and I love it now, super functional
It’s functional for sure, but the scrolling feels so janky
Lemmy with choices. Lemmy wins
voyager has a great ui. Only bad thing was it felt a bit junky before official play store release of the app but now it feels great. Just wish it would have a option to downlaod images.
I haven’t tried the store release, but an issue I had with the PWA was that it was too laggy if you scrolled a lot. It also occasionally jumped around and would make you lose your place if you visited a community, changed the sorting mode, and then went back to your homepage.
It should be more consistent with the Play Store version.
I had the same problems with the Web app but haven’t had them since the store release.
I haven’t tried Sync but I’ve tried Connect and Jerboa and I’m now on Liftoff. All have felt pretty smooth to me, Liftoff especially is about as smooth as I could imagine anything being. I’ve got no problem with people using Sync bit I don’t get how they’re having such a bad experience on other apps.
For me it’s actually a bit about brand loyalty. Been using synch for 10+ years and got so used to it. I don’t have problems with other Lemmy apps at all.
I used the first two, but just enjoy the experience of sync better. If sync didn’t exist, I’d be just fine and happy still. But I currently browse Lemmy 30 minutes to an hour each day, so $20 for no ads is something I’ll probably eventually pay for the hundreds of hours I’ll use the app.
Yeah I certainly don’t object to the cost, I’m happy to pay for good software. I guess I should try it to see what the benefit is, I can’t tell from screenshots
Infinity for lemmy just dropped in F-droid. Hello old friend…glad you’ve arrived
Hmm, can’t find it on fdroid, do I need to add a repo?
I think the version on repo is older than the git version
It’s just a version number mixup. The repo version is indeed the latest. More here: !infinityforlemmy@lemdro.id
It’s specifically on the IzzyOnDroid repo, instructions here:
Thanks! Just grabbed it. It is my favorite so far, probably cause I used infinity on Reddit.
Infinity
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I was a user of RiF, RedReader and Infinity. Infinity when it gets out of alpha, is going to be insane.
Sync was not even close to these, and I hated the v20 fat Material UI look, stuck to v18 till it stopped working.
I’m really enjoying Thunder. Love the comment screen
It seems unsustainable and mixed up to think no one should ever use non-FOSS options for anything.
Maybe that would be the case if we were in some post scarcity perfect society where no one needed income, and all devs were just doing it for self-fulfillment, but I can’t blame someone for wanting to make income off of their work. Especially if they seem like a reasonable person, wanting reasonable amounts for good work.
Isn’t supporting a smaller dev a good thing? I mean, this guy got screwed over by reddit fucking up his income.
And it’s really great, something worth paying for, imo.
I got like ten years out of Sync for Reddit. I even bought the $30 package and feel like I got more than my money’s worth.
Ain’t that the truth. People act like charging for software is evil no matter what. There’s a huge difference between a lone dev trying to earn a living and a huge corporation trying to wring every last ounce of profit out of their users. And there’s probably degrees of nuance between those.
Especially if they seem like a reasonable person, wanting reasonable amounts for good work.
And that’s the important context in this discussion. You’ve got a dev who’s active in the community and who builds an app not only with great features and UI but with stability too. And he has a not insignificant user base that is familiar not just with his work but essentially with this exact app… It’s reasonable for him to assume we’ll see the value and be willing to pay. And he is correct.
I’m personally averse to subscription models, but again context matters. Reasonable rate and you know what you’re getting. And I say this as a huge fan of both FOSS and socialism. I could have easily just let my DNS continue to filter out the ads, but I appreciate quality and believe it should be appropriately compensated.
actually, speaking of the subscription, the fact that ads can be removed with either the subscription or a one time payment is one of my favorite things about sync. I don’t really like subscriptions either, but then the only feature I really wanted from Sync was the ads removed, so I don’t have to even care about the subscription. I wish that kind of monetization style was WAY more popular.
And I only subscribed because the one-time purchase was not available at that moment, so I assumed no such option existed. But honestly, I’ll continue to pay the subscription. It’s still less than a year’s worth of my monthly donations to the developer of Tasker.
What is your take on China and Russia?
I will rather support dev that don’t already make money by selling my personal data.
Anyone who has used liftoff, what’s the difference really with sync? I tried sync but couldn’t really tell a difference.
However the first app to come out with a tablet or two pane mode, I’m making my move to them
Oh nice! Had only poked around on my phone for a little at work, definitely need to try on my tablet then
I am trying so hard to be patient and stick to using kbin.
Why tho
I would love to use Thunder, but for some reason, my screen is locked to 60 Hz on Thunder, Connect and Liftoff and it’s really off-putting.
Show me a foss client which shows community suggestions in the search bar when you start typing and auto collapsing comments features. Otherwise you can’t change my mind.
Liftoff
No suggestion in search bar. I want this. Connect has this feature but auto comment collapsing is not there.
Ah true. I am Downloading Connect. Thanks
Get Sync. Give it a shot. You’ll love it . The seamless design . Fast object loading will spoil you.
I’m on Sync right now, immediately went to see how much it was to buy the pro version only to discover it’s now subscription and if I want a one time payment it’s a hundred bucks… Even just removing adverts is 20 bucks… Fuck this thing, I’m uninstalling.
Fuck that. I did check in play store and it says that it collects data. No, thank you.
Be polite and chill. And what you can do is simply choose not to send data. It’s an option that’s provided in the app fyi lmao. " Oh it collects data I heard it from this guy" see for yourself lol.
One more Syncpisser detected who deliberately wants spying.
I need a client that automatically marks as read as you scroll by. And it doesn’t bring back the read threads every time you reopen or refresh the god damn app.
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Sync and Connect are the two apps I’ve used and both have the capability of doing this. Let me know if you need help finding the settings.
When you refresh the feed, the hidden posts come back in both these apps.
Infinity is better, free and open source with zero tracking.
Thunder does that !
Sync can do this, at least sync for reddit could, lemme see if that’s still the case
This setting will do it.
Thanks you!
Yup and if you want the read posts gone, there is a “hide read” button!
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Most of the clients I’ve used could do that (Connect, Voyager, Sync). You just have to go and look through the settings. Also the Lemmy web UI can hide read posts too. Just go to your account settings and untick the “show read posts” option
