infinity for lemmy exists?

Paid software absolutely has a place in the world. Evil companies producing evil software designed to build a monopoly and lock out FOSS apps do not. I don’t think Sync falls into the latter and I’m happy they’ve made the choice to be able to eat.

Can we just celebrate good apps instead of go all out “too indie for you”?

Try Connect for Lemmy. It’s excellent.

as a software engineer there’s nothing wrong with that, but I think the developer should lower the add-free fee

I don’t understand the issue here?

You want open source and free software. You get that with a developer trying to make a living to improve upon a product like Jerboa. Jerboa works but by comparison to Sync it is rough. By rough I mean the UI is not the best, it needs way more time and polish not only looks nice but has extra features and functions to make it stand out.

With something like Jerboa you would donate money by choice but if your argument is free and open source you need to donate more money to support that.

Sync is popular because its closed source makes it harder to break the security aspect if you don’t have all the access to source code. It is popular because it was a great app for Reddit and had that advantage. You know what people did to help the developer make a living and put more time into it? They supported it willingly by paying for extra features to help the dev and get more out of the money they were willing to spend.

I understand free and open source APIs being available and wanting more free and open source software to stay that way to make all things free and open. So support the apps you appreciate being free by willingly providing money which in return makes them not free.

If you want things to get better somewhat you invest in them. If they go belly up well then it was a bad investment. Sync is a fantastic app and it has the edge because it has a good developer and has had a good community who pays for it and supports it because things you love you will support. If you are a good developer you give more for that money provided.

The PS Mini literally used an emulator to play games. A free open source emulator that you could find. People still paid for a console that charged to use that open source software. Why? Because they loved gaming at home and the product.

I will pay for Sync because it makes a product better. A product that makes a newcomer leave Reddit and find Lemmy. An app that provides familiar and easy to use features. An app that has the edge that can make Lemmy a smoother experience. Just because something charges money, which by the way is an optional choice, and just because something is close sourced which by the way tends to be more secure doesn’t make the product bad. It can bring more into the community.

If your issue with Lemmy isn’t that it’s FOSS but your issue with other platforms is that they run poorly or they need more polish well then you are arguing against yourself.

Let’s face it. How many of us have actually contributed enough to any FOSS projects to demand for free and premium services. I personally would rather donate to a FOSS app instead of paying Sync, but it’s unfair to judge Sync for having ads and trackers when the option of removing them is there. There’s nothing wrong with any dev wanting to make a decent living or even more than that, as long as they don’t go overboard and are honest about it.

I never used Sync with reddit. But I’m using it right now, for Lemmy, because I found it to be smoother and more customizable than Jerboa. I’ll check out Boost when it becomes available, too.

I don’t care about open source or closed source stuff. I really couldn’t give a F either way. That stuff doesn’t concern me.

More options is better for the community

I saw all the announcements for Sync, and remembered that Sync for Reddit was my main app a long time ago. Couldn’t recall why I switched to Infinity.

Downloaded Sync for Lemmy today, scrolled past about 4 posts before a box showed up that said “sponsored content.” Now I remember why I switched.

I’m a huge FOSS guy. I’d support any of the FOSS apps if they were anywhere close to as good and polished as Sync already is. Sorry.

This seems like a decent place to ask-

I’m looking for two main things, can anyone advise if any of these apps can do both of these things:

Can I swipe on post view to go to the next/prev post?

Does it track “read” posts and support hiding those posts?

For context I’m coming from Joey. Essentially, I’d like the post view or view with comments as my usual and I swipe to go to the next post. And when I go back to the list view of all posts, no “read” posts I’ve visited are there. And of course this carries through multiple sessions.

Is there an android client like this?

Edit: Infinity seems to work exactly how I want, after tweaking the settings a bit.

Just sitting here waiting on Boost. On jerboa for now, but Boost will be the bees knees

I’ve seen a lot of posts recently about FOSS. I’m not a programmer, so I don’t know anything about it. What is FOSS and does it have a big advantage over other software designs?

I will switch from Sync to Infinity once it’s available on F-Droid or the Play store. I don’t stay on top of things enough to use apps that I have to update myself.