I’m so home it’s crazy…
I just feel like I’m back on kuro5hin
Now that’s a name
hot grits, yadda yadda, +5 troll, yadda yadda, netcraft confirms it
Jeroba on mobile, web app inside of firefox with adblockers on desktop.
I used Jeroba while I was waiting for sync to come out. Personally it’s really no competition, it’s great that it is being worked on but Jeroba is significantly worse in every way except for being open source. Hopefully someday it will be great!
Synk is just so polished comparatively everything else feels unfinished
I ditched Jerboa for Liftoff, and then Liftoff for Thunder because they all kept breaking.
Thunder was alright, all things considered, but the UI is lacking. Now that Sync is out, I’m back to where I started 12+ years ago.
Jerboa feels a lot like Joey
Not quite, but close
I don’t know who or what Joey is.
Joey was a reddit client. It was the one I used, I liked it best. But Jerboa didn’t remind me of Joey at all.
The layout does for me.
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very real
I used sync for years and no matter how many times I tried using other Reddit apps I always went back to using Sync. I was happy to see Sync reborn again as a lemmy client. Yes FOSS is nice but I have no problems supporting LJ even if sync isn’t open sourced.
Surely we can agree it’s better to have too many choices rather than having some greedy piggy ban them all.
It does seem like a large number of Lemmy users are elitist snobs. I thought this place was turning out better than Reddit, but it’s looking like I was wrong. People like that ruin platforms like this and sour the experience.
There are many entitled people here. Some of them are from linux community. Anything other than that is bad and 1000 posts related to that. Another is sync and other apps. Especially open source only good, closed source everything bad. My feed was full of that. Even though I am a sync user i feel angry when seeing so many non sense posts supporting and against that. Even some communities not related to these are posting this.
The reason why many people swapped was because Lemmy harbors smarter individuals. I need to feel superior simply because I use Lemmy, Otherwise there’s no point.
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I think a lot of you are confusing privacy focused to elitism.
No data should ever go to a google server from Lemmy app ever.
A lot of people seem to think the issue is that’s he’s charging for it.
No, it is elitism and gatekeeping
Not wanting to use any app that goes to a google server for a lemmy app is being privacy focused. Telling other people their preference in not valuing the same thing is wrong is elitism - saying that no app should do something, and nobody else should use an app that does that thing, because you prefer it that way - that’s elitism.
Sync and the people who like it aren’t invalid just because your preference is being privacy focused.
Along the same lines, it’s totally possible to espouse the values of privacy to others without being elitist, as long as you aren’t talking down to other people or invalidating other people’s preferences, because that’s elitism.
I’m am saying it is objectively bad thing for an app to run through google servers
I’m saying it’s my choice where I want to send my data.
And Im saying it is objectively a bad one.
If you want to keep touching the hot stove, all power to you. Nobody is going to argue it’s not a bad choice to touch a hot stove though
It’s not your choice stop arguing
So? If you’re running an unaltered vendor version of Android chances are incredibly high much of this information has already reached Google, Meta or any other mega corp. You’re shit outta luck here boy.
Good thing I’m running Graphene OS then
Cringe
FOSS and focus on privacy does that to some people, they feel superior because they worry about those things they see as being beneficial.
I’m sure many of the users from the before time were here specifically to not use a closed source, data gathering platform, so they’re a bigger proportion of users than they were on Reddit and they tolerate the most extreme elements of their community that also happen to be the most vocal.
TL;DR: Reddit is for normies and now normies are on a platform where radicals were everywhere and part of the majority before they arrived.
Sometimes those extreme privacy preachers remind me of doomsday preppers.
I too reduced my data finger print, started using uBlock, thought more often if the data in a registration form is really needed for the service they provide (and didn’t register when in doubt), and so on…
I don’t have Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter (anymore), the only things I have are Reddit, Lemmy and Mastodon.
Still I don’t inspect every bit going through my network with Wireshark and PiHole to see, if some packet sent while watching a movie may contain personal data. At some point you gotta live a little instead of full-time fear mongering, doomsday preaching for the tech apocalypse.
I have reduced my digital fingerprints by a large margin with common sense, I don’t need a 100% privacy speedrun, what counts is that you do something. And the effects show, especially in the form of less spam and recommendations for items you’ll never need.
Google knows which topics I search for, big whoop, wouldn’t be much of a search engine otherwise.
Can yall stop posting about this proprietary shitware app
this comment was posted from Jerboa, the app where you don’t have to pay 20$ for the privilege of not seeing ads and not being tracked
You are using jerboa for free? How are the developers making money?
Jerboa, just an most other open source clients, accepts donations. I encourage everyone to donate to open-source projects and I support the original commenter.
Flipping burgers
That’s Top-10-social-apps-on-the-Play-store shitware app to you
I didn’t use Sync with reddit but since it’s the best one for Lemmy… Here I am! On Sync! Enjoying it!
Obligatory G’day from the kbin PWA :)
We’re still waiting for our native app.
Can’t wait for Sync to let me login to my kbin account too! Also, I greatly prefer kbins showing the upvotes and downvotes on posts, wish Lemmy had that…
Eventually ❤️
I feel nearly alone in preferring connect. It’s still a bit glitchy but definitely very usable and above all: clean. I feel like the other apps all have a bunch of texts sizes and visuals I don’t need. Connect just feels like a cleaned up reddit UI to me. If boost ever comes out I may switch to it, but I’ve already been feeling like connect is what the UI “should” look like. Others feel oddly busy to me
I find the connect UI to be really similar to Sync. They both group the vote buttons on posts, unlike all the alternatives, which reduces visual clutter and the icons and layout seem well designed in terms of icon and text size and margins looking symmetric (looks less like a backend dev just threw all the buttons vaguely where they’re supposed to go).
One thing connect seems to do better is that collapsing a comment collapses the comment itself and not just the replies (makes it easier to move down a thread by collapsing each root comment). On the other hand, the tap target for re-expanding the comment seems to not extend the whole width of the collapsed comment.
I’m in a similar boat to wanting the reddit app but cleaner and not buggy. So connect and sync are my top 2 right now. I didn’t mind the reddit app UI it was just so buggy and laggy.
I used to use connect, it’s great, but i eventually found Thunder to be pretty great, and now i found Infinity for Lemmy, which is great
Infinity is like a better connect. Same soft of UI but doesn’t come with the lag and jitter that I experienced with connect for so long.
:')
i use sync btw
Is it considered wrong meme because Sync for Lemmy is only available on Android, while the meme is using an older iPhone?
Shit! The meme is using the wrong phone! It’s meaning is lost!!!
🤣
It is meaning is lost!!!
yeah i just dont care
