Man, I am really out of the loop here. What’s happening?
Apparently sync was a popular reddit app (I think, I never heard of it before), which has now launched for lemmy. The result being that 50% of all posts on lemmy is now about sync for some reason.
Guerrilla marketing or just very very dedicated fans?
I was just lurking on connect till sync came out personally
Same, connect worked good but… Sync is my home lol
As one of the people who came to Lemmy because of Sync, I’d say very dedicated fans. It was hands down the absolute best Reddit app on Android. Still feeling salty about what reddit did, so I followed Sync here.
Do you have a link to the app? What makes the app worth 20 bucks?
It’s free. It’s only on google play. The 20$ is to get rid of ads forever. There’s also a subscription model which I’m not a fan of but it only costs 17$/year.
I’m a sync user and I love sync because of the customisation and the UI. It was pretty much my perfect reddit app.
Why pay money for an app when there’s tens of apps which do the exact same thing but don’t include ads in the first place?
People act like they’re being forced to use Sync when there are decent alternatives. Sync just happens to currently have the best layout/user interface with tons of customisation.
Whether or not that’s worth paying money for is up to each individual but I can’t stand the constant complaining. Either deal with ads or don’t use it if you don’t like it 👍
To me, it’s because the app is so polished and customizable. Other apps don’t really come close yet, but they might soon.
Sure hope so! Liftoff and Infinity for Lemmy are already really nice.
Pepsi, Coke, or Budget no-name cola? Windows, MacOS, or Linux? Sometimes it’s a personal preference.
I like the UX of Sync. I’ve made QOL feature requests in the past and they’ve been implemented. For an early beta, it’s extremely well polished. I can afford to support the developer for a quality app, so I do.
I can certainly see the merits of each app, and have used a few of them. I just prefer Sync.
But that’s me. It should have no bearing on what you or anyone else uses.
Give me a free coke clone and I’ll pick it most of the time. Your comparison lacks because everything has to be bought (except Linux).
FOSS apps are free and will always be free.
But yeah, if you prefer one app over another and you’re fine with paying money to use it, go ahead.
Long time sync user. It’s fans. It’s just that good.
The app team is one man: Ljdawson. It ain’t guerrilla marketing.
Confirmed.
Big Sync fan here, because LJDawson actually listens to user feedback and implements good ideas.
Personally I’m a Sync Ultra subscriber because I value paying for the support and extra features, and don’t mind compensating the app maker for making my Lemmy UX experience familiar and enjoyable.
However, and this is important, do not feel pressured to use an app because it is popular if something does not appeal to you (like the pricing, or paying to remove ads, for example). There are plenty of apps that are free or significantly cheaper, that remain ad free. All of them have merits.
Sync users alone can’t fill the fediverse with the content that is required. We’d be extremely stupid to think we were anything more than just another fediverse user. Everyone’s contribution is equally important.
Do it your way, or it’s just another Reddit.
Idk how long a lot of you have been off reddit but I was there just after Sync for lemmy was announced and it had a lot of people saying they’d come over with Sync. So Idgaf if it’s got ads or a premium fee, because I don’t have to use it. I can just let the people who want it use it and let the fediverse grow.
Based neutrality.
Idk man I am using Connect and I am happy with it.
I choose neither side. I prefer using the free apps, and I’m not sad about it.
I don’t care, just stop talking about the damn thing.
I just use Artemis for kbin and a browser for lemmy until lemmy support drops
Jerboa… Always
Jerboa has been good to me for the past month, but Sync is such an improvement. It has customization options that just make the experience better all around.
Can someone explain this one to me? I’m on ios and therefore can’t use sync.
For me Voyager marking on read when you scroll past a post is just a killer feature
In case any sync users are looking to enable this: Settings shortcut: History > Mark posts as read on scroll
Well. Well. Well. If it isn’t JLD.
I’d say you’ve smashed it for 6. 'Grats!
Killer launch, and the subscription tracker bot on Discord has gone bananas.TIL you can make links to settings by long-pressing them. That’s actually awesome as hell.
The fact that you can link to a freaking setting is amazing. I love this app.
And people still think Sync is overhyped. This is pure awesomeness
10+ years working on sync and I only added that last year. Been an absolute game changer for support*.
Wow I was stunned when I clicked that and it sent to the setting lol.
Is voyager the only app that can do that? That’s a feature that I would consider switching for
Connect can do it as well
As do infinity for lemmy.
In not sure if its the only one, but on Voyager you just have to go settings then general and the option to mark as read on scroll is there. Its super convienent though!
I use Infinity for Lemmy and it’s pretty gosh darn nice (coming from Infinity for Reddit).
I found it quite buggy. I love infinity, but I’m probably gonna stick to Sync for now.
No it’s not, mine is fine, just waiting for some features to get added.
Maybe it’s your phone.
“maybe it’s your device”
A classic.
It’s in early development, I’m sure it’ll get better. The awesome thing is that we have so many great choices for clients. There’s something for everyone!
There’s infinity? I can’t find it in fdroid. Is it play store only?
It is on codeberg.
I just set mine up to be as close to RIF as possible. I love it so far.
i dont get it. whats wrong with sync?
People are upset because they want to use a premium service without paying for it. The dev was kind enough to add a free version, which is supported by ads. However, the ads in the free version use trackers (just like pretty much every ad service), so people are getting hysterical that the app is “spying” on them.
It would be one thing if this was the only app for Lemmy, but there’s numerous other apps on the market they could use.
Although none of them are even half as polished as Sync 😉
It’s mostly foss (free, open source software) linux guys doing what they do: Telling people what software they should use.
The paid version will probably go on sale in a few months. I remember redditsync being $10 or something and I got it for $1-2 on sale.
Edit: and I don’t know if sync is on iOS but anyone on an android can download Google play rewards and usually get 1-5 surveys a day and get $0.10-$0.70 per survey. It adds up pretty quick. I get quite a few a day and even more when I walk in areas with lots of retail. If you are willing to share a photo of your receipt it’ll give you even more. I’ve made a few hundred dollars for apps over the past decade using that app. I don’t think I’ve ever paid for an app with my actual money and just used money earned off rewards. If you have an android (with Google services) it should be an app you have.
I use the Google survey thing too and agree that it stacks up pretty fast. I often use it to buy premium versions of apps.
That said, I really doubt the people concerned with trackers in an app would want to willingly give Google information about themselves that they sell to advertisers.
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lemmy is crowded with the FOSS and privacy crowd. it’s what makes lemmy so much better than reddit.
ita reasonable that a paid app, with ads and telemetry isn’t their traditional jam.
Not open source, payment if you don’t want ads. Valid criticisms, but it’s still the best app UX wise, by far, so the blame is not on the users, it’s on open source projects to do better
but it’s still the best app UX wise, by far
That’s a high claim when tehre’s features I want that other apps do that this doesn’t, great user experience. Just say that you prefer it, stating it as a fact reads extremely arrogant and might be why some other people are getting pissed.
What features? I want to know if I should want them too, haha.
Marking posts as read as you scroll by them for example, this way every time I refresh the page I see no repeat posts.
Another one that I’ve seen mentioned by users in some of these posts is that the “hide” swipe action doesn’t exist, and it does in connect.
Idk, I’m not saying that the app is bad, it’s just that the amount of people claiming that it’s the apex of all creation is way too overbearing.
Both of those features exist.
Oh no! People enjoying something, better get angry!
oh thats REALLY bad.
