Yeah nah fuck that Sync hate, I don’t use it personally but if someone wants to use it, all the best to them and have a jolly ride in the lemmy part of the fediverse
I wanted RIF to support Lemmy
A Sync user loves Lemmy enough to pay for it and isn’t wrapped up in drama spun by FOSS advocates. Be proud.
That being said, I love FOSS.
Welcome buddy. Welcome all sync users. The greatest part of the decentriverse is it’s not yours or mine, it’s no one’s. Do as you please.
I don’t see why people are so against the developer using ads. If you don’t like them, you can remove them yourself with an adblocker, you don’t need the dev to do that. If you consider ads an ethical violation, you shouldn’t see using an adblocker as unethical.
Or get this. Pay to remove them. Should people not be compensated for their hard work?
That’s not really my point. If people are demanding that everything should be free, they can just make them free and stop whining about it.
So while I understand the love for FOSS and an Ad Free Experience, somebody still has to pay for the server time. Now I know this doesnt exactly work in THIS scenario with Sync, but couldnt ads and paid subs in Apps be a good way for Lemmy/KBin instances for be financed without having to rely on donations?
For Example, imagine if Lemmy.ml had their own app with their own experience and if you wanted to support it without actually handing over money, now you could use ads in the mobile experience and feel a little better about your lurking.
Just a thought.
This is the thought process to why reddit shut down third party apps
I set up sync to look as much like Alexandrite as I could, its a nice bit of consistency when I switch to desktop from mobile and vice versa.
Not enough people know about alexandrite. It’s definitely my favorite web interface.
I haven’t tried many, maybe one other than Alexandrite and “stock” but I like that it uses more of my screen than just the middle.
I personally like MLMYM more, but you do you.
It’s weird how upset people are getting over memes about sync. It’s a shame because the memes are pretty funny.
None of the FOSS advocates actually care that you use Sync unless they’re going to your house and uninstalling it when your not looking.
And there’s a lot of misconceptions about free software. Free Software is opposed to proprietary software, not paid software. All projects, whether free or proprietary require compensation of some kind, or else they wouldn’t exist.
There is a legitimate debate around if proprietary software is ethical. The whole existence of the free software movement is because the proponents of it saw proprietary software as unethical.
While the cost and ads are enough to keep me using the free options, everyone should just use whatever they want.
More Lemmy users = more content on Lemmy.
Isn’t this exactly what people should want though? Both FOSS and commercial options?
If you don’t want to pay, there is an option for that.
If you want to pay and (in theory), get a better experience, there would be an option for that.
Damn these sync users. Infinity for lemmy is gonna be way better
You can already use it. https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy/releases 👍
I found out about Lemmy BECAUSE of Sync. I’m a huge FOSS supporter but that doesn’t mean I’ll trash anything that isn’t open source.
Much more importantly, I’d really like to see Lemmy succeed against data mining trash like Reddit. Let’s not dissuade potential converts coming over from Reddit with this gatekeeping nonsense. These manipulative parasitic social media companies are the real enemy here. Sync is one guy making one app with a one time purchase. Everyone is still welcome to use open source apps, the website or any other means of accessing the community. Sync is not your enemy.
I found out about Lemmy BECAUSE of Sync
I had heard of lemmy in the days before the reddit blackout, but only when ljdawson said he was considering building sync for lemmy, did I actually join up.
I tried other clients before sync was actually out, and voyager is pretty good - but sync feels like home.
Wait, is it looked down on for some reason? I’ve used sync for years, and am glad it’s back.
Edit- nevermind, found another content explaining it.
I present you beautiful and FOSS infinity
https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy/releases
I rolled my own Infinity for Reddit after the Great API block. It’s so inferior to Sync.
I disagree with the rest of the people itt. Downvote me NOW
