I’m on thunder for the amazing design, ik it’s slow but I’m used to it cos of my crap internet
I really like Thunder’s design, but there are way too many gestures that can’t be disabled, so with my big clumsy hands the app becomes unusable
I’ve tried pretty much all the FOSS Lemmy apps I could get my hands on but the experience Sync provides is far superior. I’m an ex Boost user and since I couldn’t find Boost for Lemmy I naturally gravitated towards Sync and I’m not looking back.
Boost is making a comeback on lemmy soon too in case you weren’t aware
Yeah, that’s what I’ve been waiting for. But with Sync ready and so many other free options, I’m worried that by the time it comes out, I’ll already have transitioned to something else. Have you heard anything about an ETA for the app?
Sync definitely is far superior. $2 and change per month is more than reasonable to keep developing an app I use so much.
And spying.
Everybody spies. Its not possible to maintain my privacy 100% and still keep the same QoL
True, but you can make exceptions for necessities. Sync is not a necessity in any shape or form. Things like Windows or Photoshop can be necessities.
Wrong meme format if Sync is the one profiling you and the other apps are FOSS.
Google’s ad service is the thing that’s profiling you. Sync dgaf.
The way I see it, it fits very well: the hype surrounding Sync has also really seduced me. But the FOSS apps keep pulling me in a different direction. Just now I was thinking, I’ll just stay with Sync until Boost comes.
Now I am writing this message from Infinity.
I see myself
I’ve been happy with Liftoff.
I was happy with connect. Then I craved for foss. Now I’m torn between summit, thunder and arctius (formerly fennec)
Btw slide for lemmy just dropped. It still lacks community blocking. But it’s nice, similar to lift off.
What the deuce is FOSS
Free open source software
You better start believing in Foss…🏴☠️🦑🏴☠️ you’re in one
Ah sweet so I’m already covered
Isn’t summit proprietary?
I believe it is foss. But you can verify it if you like.
https://github.com/idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy/blob/main/LICENSE
the page on github only has the icon and the APKs, there is no source code. Perhaps the Apache licence is only applied to the icon? I don’t know… alternativeto.net marks it as proprietary
Ok, so there’s no definitive answer.
But nevertheless, I’ve been tinkering with infinity for lemmy and I think I will choose this as my main app for the moment.
In fact I am replying to you using infinity. I really do enjoy this app after I’ve finished customizing it, the settings took me more than 30 minutes because of the sheer number of combinations I had to try.
But after I finished setting up, it is a joy to use.
I have few to zero complaints with it
Is your community overview morking, for me it always gives an error recently
It really only gives me errors if the server is throwing errors
But it works on jerboa
I can’t type on Jerboa is the thing. And how would Jerboa display something if the server throws an error? That doesn’t make sense to me
Another meme about Sync for Lemmy… You dare today don’t you?
“Sweet, an actual meme post not just more discussion about Sync for Lemmy!”
“Oh…”
This discourse in these comments is stupid. People can complain about Sync if they have something to complain about. It’s a fucking forum. Personally I hate the idea of restricting features and using ads to get people to pay, especially when I have several FOSS apps that work perfectly for me, I don’t think Sync feels any more “slick”.
There, that’s my opinion. I don’t like Sync and I’m not attacking anyone for using it.
Ye, I loved Sync for Reddit, bought pro and dev even, but current Sync monetization is insane enough to alienate me.
Whatever people want to use do not concern me.
Youtube premium is $2/month in my country, sync is one time $25… Would have to say it’s kinda expensive and not buying it anytime soon.
I fully agree! I have no idea why would I need to pay $20 for an app when I have a bunch of alternatives that I like even more. Welp, I even like to use a browser instead of an app sometimes. But people are excited and are going to Lemmy, which is a good thing
No one says you need to, in fact you don’t, but many people keep bitching like they are forced to.
Damn I loved Sync for reddit. Paid like $3 for the pro version, removing ads. Not sure I can make myself pay $20 though. Something like $5-$8 would be more reasonable.
I hear you but I also paid like $3-5 for pro and used it daily for years. It probably works out to pennies per month if you do the math. I don’t get the sense LJDawson is lighting cigars with $100 bills. With the old model he got paid the price of a coffee… once. I’d imagine that a subscription model at least guarantees him a somewhat regular income stream that hopefully helps beyond beer money every so often
Not sure if you have tried voyager yet, but it has been great for me. It’s a PWA, so you can install it to your phone homescreen from the browser. All of the kinks seem to be pretty ironed out by now.
Completely ad free and monetarily free, as well.
To be fair, though, I never used sync. I used RIF for reddit, and I haven’t missed it since I found Voyager.
It’s the cost, not the idea taking people back.
As a Sync user, I support this comment. The fact that these debates occur is precisely due to the fact that people have the freedom of choice, and that’s something to celebrate.
Sync doesn’t have to be “better” or “worse” than other apps and vice versa. People should pick what they like. I pick it because it feels like home after having used it for almost 10 years. Doesn’t mean it’s better.
They aren’t using ads to “get people to pay” they’re using ads to pay for people who don’t want to pay
Yes, the ads make a little money. But it’s still a problem you create then sell the solution to. It’s at least half the reason to do ads.
Not really. The alternative is charging for the app in the first place, but if you do that your app fails. You include ads to help pay for development and ongoing expenses.
Offering a subscription to remove them for those that want to is secondary to that. Very few people actually subscribe to anything at all unless they absolutely have to. You’d be surprised to learn how few users actually pay to remove ads–like oftentimes less than one percent
That’s not the only alternative.
Do bless me with your knowledge, then. Donations don’t work. You don’t want ads. You don’t want subscription fees. People hate paying for apps.
There is no other option other than working for free.
Donations work. The dev clearly has many loyal fans willing to pay. Look at Jerboa/Lemmy’s donation pages. It’s good money.
Besides this I’m not even saying the dev shouldn’t do it. I’m just explaining that I don’t like it.
I gladly donate to FOSS software devs because the product never forces me to log in for a feature or get a key or see an ad. The app doesn’t get any of the bloat required to do that stuff either. I just don’t want to use Sync and it’s not because I’m cheap
It’s good money.
The Lemmy dev is making around 30k a year. Subtract taxes from that and he’s making maybe 25k (at best).
They’re very clearly extremely talented software engineers, and you’re telling me $12 an hour is “good money”? That’s not even above minimum wage in many US states! Do you have any idea how much software engineers make?
Which open source app do you feel is just as slick as sync? Genuine question. I’d be happy to support a FOSS app, but all that I found had weird issues and quirks, and/or janky UI. Liftoff was the best I’d found but again, buggy and janky.
I’m still just using Jerboa. It was buggy when I first used it but a few updates later it does it all fine.
People can complain about Sync if they have something to complain about.
Okay. I have something to complain about, too. It’s people complaining too much about Sync.
I get complaining about the price, I get being a FOSS diehard, but there are are a handful of accounts that are so insanely mad about Sync and commenting/posting about it so much that they genuinely can’t be mentally well.
Well I’d like to complain about people complaining about people complaining about Sync >:)
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You can support FOSS devs, too.
They are in more need of it.
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Why make this comment? They didn’t say they weren’t going to.
When there’s a FOSS app as good as sync, sure.
I’ve tried all the Android reddit apps. Infinity is fine, I just prefer Sync’s UI/UX.
Honestly, there are three right now on Android.
I’m currently using Liftoff more than the others, but every week I’m seeing huge positive changes being made to all of these. Jerboa is an honorable mention, as I don’t think we can log in to that yet.
I like the feel of sync, but the fonts are a little small, and there comments in threads are hard to differentiate compared to the apps above.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but I’ve never had any trouble logging in with Jerboa. It’d be my favorite app but it has framerate issues on my device, so I’m using Thunder.
This is all just subjective opinion but I’ve been using connect for weeks and I bigly prefer Sync
As a former infinity user, “Infinity for Lemmy” was the one I’m waiting for. And now I have it
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Literally zero FOSS apps that are even half as good as Sync.
Eh, Infinity for Lemmy is.
Although it’s in alpha and theirfor there many bugs, but feature wise it might be even better than Sync
I was switching between Voyager, Infinity and Thunder until Sync got released. None of those even come close to the User Experience of Sync. It’s not even the bugs, it’s the interface and the UX.
I’m more concerned about the data collection then the price.
Okay, I won’t push you from Sync. But if you have the money to remove its ads, please also consider supporting Lemmy directly or indirectly (Mozilla, among other things, funded the effort to find and patch TootRoot before it became a problem). If you don’t want to just donate, switching to Mozilla VPN will also help.
Wefwef/voyager all the way Ü
Voyager has exceeded all of my expectations, it’s great!
Same here.
It’s like having Apollo for Android!! It’s so weird to have the experience on my Pixel.
Infinity rocks
I’m looking for a way to block communities. Does it have that, I only found user blocking option but not community blocking.
Connect has both community and instance blocking.
Yes I was using that before, I really liked connect, but I also want to use foss. So I’m giving infinity a chance.
I was also informed that summit was not foss, I really liked that too.
In fact there’s too much options for apps now, sometimes I experience choice paralysis. Or app hoarding
Trying it out rn. Very promising, very material and such charm
Did you mean: Infinity Stones ?
I used the rocks to destroy the rocks.
No. Infinity for Reddit is/was a FOSS reddit app.
Now there is Infinity for Lemmy by another developer.
https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy/releases
That’s what I like about foss, people can continue where others left off, unlike proprietary, when the developer stops, the project stops , unless they give away the source code or open it up.
Paying to limit myself from the freedom that comes with using a browser?
If I like it better then who are you to tell me I shouldn’t pay for it. Like it doesn’t affect you, as long as I support my home instance everything will be fine.
Nobody was talking about you but go off.
I see your point. My bad. Just don’t like how people are trying to make us seem like we are the bad guys for using sync
It’s your phone, do what you want with it. Funny that in the weeks leading up I saw so much love for Sync and the instant it dropped there was a massive shift. Maybe because of the Play Store privacy section? Lemmy is every bit as vulnerable to bandwagoning as Reddit. In a week nobody will be talking about it.
The shift was from:
- Only way to remove ads at launch was the ultra subscription ($2/mo or $17/yr)
- Once a one-time payment for ad removal (not ultra) was added, it cost $20 which is higher than people were expecting. It started out cheaper and rose once or twice throughout the day.
- The one-time payment for “ultra” as added late in the day and costs $99 (the Sync for Reddit version was $30)
I’m personally torn because I really like Sync and I believe the dev should be paid for their work. IMO Sync is far and away the best app for Lemmy at the moment, and it very likely always will be.
The problem is $99 for an app is very steep. If that’s the price that makes it worth the dev effort and lower userbase, so be it, but that doesn’t make it any less expensive.
There are lots of FOSS lemmy apps out there with dedicated developers that are ad and tracker free (shoutout to Connect). They aren’t as polished as Sync. However, almost all of them have only been around for a month and have seen an astonishing amount of improvements in that time. Who’s to say they won’t eventually match/beat Sync?
Speaking for myself, it feels weird to be forking $99 over to Sync for porting their app over from Reddit when I’ve never donated to any instances, any other 3rd-party lemmy apps, or to lemmy development itself. I’ll probably donate to those things eventually, but paying $99 for Sync before giving money to those other parts of the lemmy ecosystem just feels out of order.
I’m holding out to see if the one time payment for Ultra drops in price. In the meantime, my adblocker (dns66) makes it so I don’t see any ads anyway.
It’s not $99 for the app though, it’s $20 for sync ad-free, which is reasonable for a crazy polished app like this one. The $99 gets you a tiny bit more functionality they provide extra based around a subscription model because recurring revenue makes sure you always have the funds to further your project. I don’t necessarily agree with this sentiment, but I also don’t need any of those extra features.
Also, sync is just the beginning. Many more apps will follow. If they still think that price is reasonable, then so be it. But $20 is very fair IMO.
As someone who has never used Sync, what are the features in Ultra to justify a 5x increase in price?
As an IOS user, I‘m glad that I get to decide between memmy and memmy. I picked memmy, off course!
There’s more than that now on the App Store in addition to wefwef pwa.
I’m currently jumping between Memmy, Bean, Lemmios and Avelon. Dropped Thunder, Liftoff, Olympus and Lemmotif. There’s actually a lot of options going around, not to mention the several other WPAs being developed too.
All this buzz and the app isn’t even FOSS!
Otoh, I’m like “finally some good fucking food”
I installed both Sync and Infinity on the same day and I’ve mostly used Infinity since, I just don’t get the fuss about Sync, I think it’s only nostalgia from its Reddit users tbh (I used Boost for Reddit fwiw).
