Hello World!
It appears that it is not opensource, unfortunately.
What made you think it would be?
I didn’t think that it would – I was hopeful that it might.
gestures to the platform we are posting on
HE SAID THAT THERE IS ALREADY A ONE-TIME PURCHASE SUPPORTED VERSION SUBMITTED TO PLAY STORE THAT WILL REMOVE THE ADS.
Patience. Some people, man. Geez.
The price might be a problem though. The option to remove ads currently costs 22.99€.
What, it costs 2€ for a month
The lifetime purchase costs 22.99€
Better than the same every year
Needs to be regionalised yet
Likely won’t happen lol.
It says it’s not available. I have a Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra
Phone is too old
I have a Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra
It’s 6 months old.
The issue was that Google wanted a photo of my ID for age verification.
Well, in that case vote for better laws!
Have it installed. So far so good. We’ll see.
I have to admit I’m totally soured.
Serving ads is not cool, and specifically poisoning the Lemmy instance with all the problems of tying near permanent content to an ad ID is negligent.
No you won’t convince me he had to to make a living, or do you not use wikipedia.
Are you really trying to compare an app that connects to a service with maybe 2M monthly users to fuckin Wikipedia, one of the best known sites on the internet that’s used worldwide and still has to beg yearly for donations?
Ads get you free services, welcome to the internet since it’s inception. If you don’t want ads, pay to not have ads. The god damn entitlement here, telling a guy that he should be working for tips.
The entire body of issues from the ad supported model are legion and documented by people better than I.
My point to wikipedia is it’s a charitable model with substantial overhead. The time of the dev is the product here, there is no overhead beyond the play store scrape.
He can work for what he wants, but he’s shutting where I eat.
The entire body of issues from the ad supported model are legion and documented by people better than I.
So someone told you to hate something and you just went for it full send without understanding it, eh?
The time of the dev is the product here, there is no overhead beyond the play store scrape.
He shouldn’t value his own time and effort? Damn you’re entitled.
He can work for what he wants, but he’s shutting where I eat.
No he isn’t, just go use a different app ffs.
Ads and data gathering are really damn annoying. I’d like to purchase this software, but instead it’s just a monthly subscription. I’m posting this from sync, but I gotta say - if there’s no update removing this stuff, I’m switching back to jerboa.
So you want them to make a professional grade app for free?
There are other methods of monetization besides ads. Such as… selling it.
The Lemmy userbase is so small by comparison to reddit. I don’t like subscriptions or ads but my god man’s gotta eat. People get butthurt way too easily over this stuff.
Which he is now also doing - one time payment to remove ads permanently.
Is that available yet, or he’s developing it? Or you have to pay ultra?
Good to hear. Now remove the ad version and I’m convinced. 👍
There’s nothing wrong with having an ad supported version if people want to use it.
Which he is doing with the subscription model. Put your money where your mouth is in that case. Have you supported Lemmy or the 3rd party apps in any way?
That privacy policy though. Not the best
That’s what I’m saying! It might be technically excellent, but one of the reasons I went away from Reddit is also to escape the aggressive data collection
Checked out connect because I have read about the private policy. Dunno who copies who, but connect almost looks the same and doesn’t collect anything afaik.
He’ll yeah, brother
It feels like home, although not having a lifetime option for sync is a bummer
Now available
Anyone figured out how to enlarge comment body text?
That’s pretty cool that it generates a link straight to the setting
It makes the community instantly better at helping each other troubleshoot.
It’s like automatically making your tech support way better.
Long press on a setting to copy the link
Omg sick link. Now I go reset back to default other font settings 😜
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
Thanks!
Oh wow. I REALLY like that feature.
It’s so convenient. It’s the type of feature you love to have but don’t automatically think to request.
HALLELUJAH
Wow, this is very clean! I never used sync for Reddit so I didn’t understand all the hype but I get it now. I’m very impressed
Does anybody know if it’s possible to either
- anonymously “log in” on an instance other than Lemmy.world, or
- set up a feed for another instance?
Under the anonymous account go to settings and search for “Home Instance” and then you can set a new default instance for Anonymous
Swag. Thanks.
I really wish the dev the best of luck. But personally, the idea of trying to make something lucrative and introduce ads (& the accompanying trackers) on top of something that people joined because they rejected that in the first place just doesn’t sit right with me, especially given that we have awesome apps like Voyager and Memmy that are purely donation-driven.
I haven’t seen any ads yet . But I will definitely be willing to buy the pro version again like I did with Reddit .
Haven’t used the app yet as I’m not really sold yet but the Play Store and the app’s own privacy policy mention them:
FWIW, I think the dev has said somewhere that the tracker libs aren’t loaded if you are subscribed (or pay for the ad-free version when that’s available) as they’re part of the ad frameworks
Yes trust anything not open source, certainly it’s the truth!
Well, while it’s obviously not certain proof—I have a pihole on my network, I’m not seeing any unwanted requests blocked whilst I’m using this app (paid)
I personally think that a sign of a healthy technology platform is one where some people can make money from it, while the platform itself remains open. To use Linux as an example, it’s wonderful that it’s open source, and it’s great that Red Hat can be a profitable company based on Linux. It’s a good sign and it helps the Linux ecosystem thrive due to RH’s contributions.
For Lemmy there are plenty of free apps - no-one is being forced to use Sync. I’m happy to pay for something that provides some more polish to my Lemmy experience, and doesn’t require anything of anyone else.
I paid for the sync app on Reddit back when it was like $2 or 5. I’m not paying $99 to remove ads. I know there are dev costs, but there aren’t any API costs here right?
I’ll still use Sync here until I see what Boost brings over it’s released.
Was $26 CAD here.
Removing ads is $20, the lifetime cloud subscription is $99. $99 is definitely a high price tag, but I suppose if you plan to use this app for the next decade it may well be worth it.
Which is a big assumption to make on such a young site.
deleted by creator
Those options are nowhere near the level of polish of Sync.
Nobody HAS to use it. Ultimately if you want a choice of premium apps there has to be some incentive for a developer, or multiple in some cases, to basically go full time to develop it. Talented devs don’t usually work for years on end for no pay, and I would be surprised if donations ever become significant enough to compare.
Exactly. The level of polish Sync has is unmatched in the android space and well worth the money for me.
It’s also just one dude. I’m very okay with supporting this one dude who makes what I think is the best app for this purpose, cuz I want him to keep doing it and to be able to do it full-time!
Not for me. It’s in sign up for auto install when available mode.
