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just because it’s closed source doesn’t automatically make it bad
The spying for free version, promise of disabling it once you pay, and the expensive subscription based capitalism model absolutely does.
I am really enjoying Sync so far. It’s a great Lemmy client.
Just wait until Boost comes out…
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.
What is your take on China and Russia?
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.
I will rather support dev that don’t already make money by selling my personal data.
With how long it’s taking to have something to download, Boost is either gonna be left behind or will be the best app ever that was worth the wait.
I’m really enjoying Thunder. Love the comment screen
If it gets people to stop using Reddit, it works
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.
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 wondered the same thing.
It’s definitely the best one after Sync.
I dunno, Connect was the one I probably liked the least out of the 1.34 million I tried.
If you think that’s the best one, you haven’t tried Sync.
This is why Syncpissers should be nudged away. Shilling spyware everywhere.
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
What I’m still struggling with is if it’s still ok with my mortal compass to use Reddit to find information I know will be there. Specifically, product reviews.
I’m no longer contributing content on Reddit, and I’m not passively browsing either, but how do y’all feel about tapping reddit’s wealth of information?
Why not? I still look up information there too, but I use an adblocker, so it’s not like Spez is profiting from me.
If you don’t want to give them traffic, you can always visit the search result URL through the Wayback Machine or Archive.today.
If this actually causes you headaches, go touch grass please.
Do whatever you want, bud. If the info is helpful to you, who is anybody to say you can’t access it?
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.
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’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.
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.
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
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.
Infinity is better, free and open source with zero tracking.
When you refresh the feed, the hidden posts come back in both these apps.
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Sync can do this, at least sync for reddit could, lemme see if that’s still the case
This setting will do it.
Yup and if you want the read posts gone, there is a “hide read” button!
Thanks you!
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Thunder does that !
Idk who needs to know this , but despite using an alpha version of infinity , it is the smoothest app I have tried so far for lemmy!
I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, pretty obscure app but it’s super smooth, have you tried Sync?
Same experience. Alpha but good enough already.
For me Voyager runs better but I prefer infinity
can you link it please or tell me if u can get in GitHub I did went there but it’s no apk
It’s on Codeberg, here’s the link: https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy/releases
that was so fast thank you so much
Can yall stop posting about this proprietary shitware app
this comment was posted from Jerboa, the app where you don’t have to pay 20$ for the privilege of not seeing ads and not being tracked
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