I’m so home it’s crazy…
I’m absolutely thrilled to have sync on the Fediverse, and will happily pay for a yearly subscription to help ensure LJD has sufficient compensation to keep the app up-to-date with whatever changes come to the Android/Lemmy APIs years down the road.
The problem with (even excellent) free apps for platforms like this, is they require consistent maintenance to keep up with both the platform they run on (Android), and the platform they serve content for (Lemmy). That is not a trivial amount of work, and is absolutely deserving of continued, recurring compensation IMO.
A one-time payment might make sense for a simple native game that gets produced once, has no web component, and never needs another update for its entire lifetime, but not for this. You aren’t paying for a singular product, you’re paying for a service. You wouldn’t go to the barber and winged about needing to pay every time I get my hair cut.
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very real
I didn’t use Sync with reddit but since it’s the best one for Lemmy… Here I am! On Sync! Enjoying it!
I’m so at home using Sync, like a kid with his favorite blanket
i use sync btw
What is the different between sync and every other app?
Not a whole lot. Definitely not $2/month worth of differences.
Overall, Sync is less buggy and has a nicer UI than other apps. It lets you customize how you want to see content a lot more, with 6 different layouts (from compact to full cards) and has everything you need for quick actions and gestures. It’s just one of the more feature complete options because it has 10+ years of development behind it.
Other apps may get there eventually, but right now Sync is one of the best.
I’ve been using Jerboa, but I would like to try a different app. I do NOT want to use Sync, though, because even though everyone says they don’t sell data, it says right in the store that it collects personal information and messages and I’m not ok with that. I don’t care about paying a couple bucks for something quality to get rid of ads, but ads or not, you don’t need my personal data. So, what would you recommend I try next? I’m having trouble deciding because like half of them are early access.
Sync is familiar to us who has used it for years. Personally idgaf if other people use it or like it, I love it and it works perfectly for me. Find the app that works for you and use it.
I haven’t looked into what Sync is but it sounds like it’s more than just
RedditLemmy?Also a paid app?
If it’s a paid app then that makes me think quality to be honest. It’s probably misguided, but my default is to feel that if you need to pay up front for an app it’s going to be higher quality and not full of ads/microtransactions.
Free with ads. Paid either once or monthly to get rid of ads.
It’s a wonderful app.
Same here it’s just good to be back using sync.
Well Im trying out sync and it’s honestly such a good and polished app. A big Kudos to the dev. Would probably buy the premium if the pricing goes down.
It’s definitely the most polished, snappiest, cleanest Lemmy app atm and I am loving it
Memmy is incredible. I wonder how they stack up.
Amazing how good it is considering the amount of back end changes needed.
It was obviously written well with separation of concerns considered so it could be done that way.
If you count back the Reddit versions this is the 3rd or 4th version. Keeps getting better and better.
I’m just happy for anything that brings people to Lemmy
I once did an amazing milkshake
I’m home 😭😭
🫂
Me using browser ui:
Plot twist: it was Chrome
The only objectively wrong option
It’s a lot better than reddit’s or Facebook’s mobile website. Facebook used to have a pretty good mobile website, but they have intentionally ruined it over several years to try to force people to the app. Reddit has done the same thing, but but has been a lot more aggressive about it lately, up to straight up blocking mobile users on the site, and telling them to use the app or fuck off. That was what finally drove me away. It was only an A/B test, but it reveals the user hostile attitude that is at the core of the rot in reddit management.
federa.net a custom dark css, and I think it looks pretty nice.
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?
Flipping burgers
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.
That’s Top-10-social-apps-on-the-Play-store shitware app to you
Can’t we just be happy that we’re not on Reddit instead of fighting over which UI we prefer!?
I use two and it’s okay. I uninstalled Reddit app today and deleted every account. I already had did it on the main start of July but the other accounts had to follow through
Many of us left reddit due to which
AIUI we prefer. So I can see why this happens now.I thought it was due to wanting to try a non corporate alternative to social media. Before Spez mishandling of the incident I was ready to just use old.reddit.com on Firefox and figure out how to get RES onto mobile, or just use it less and more on desktop only. Had he just quietly let the protest pass by without throwing a tantrum I’d probably still be using reddit.
That plays a role for a lot of people probably. I’d think the majority got ripped over the edge by the third party app thing because the default UI in the app and browser are just worse.
Had he just quietly let the protest pass by without throwing a tantrum I’d probably still be using reddit.
Honestly, if reddit has just been upfront and said “we need to consolidate where people browse our site on mobile for our IPO”, people would still have been annoyed but i don’t think all the drama would have taken place. The issue was really just in the way that the management handled the situation by giving devs a “fuck you” API pricing and acting like TPA devs were being unreasonable for not wanting to pay the ridiculous fees. If they had just been upfront and honest then I don’t think I’d be here on lemmy.
Didn’t most of us? If you were happy using reddit app you are almost certainly still drooling on yourself scrolling through the super sexy posts on /askreddit and think Lemmy is probably the name of a band that nerds like.
Not picking on you, but I see people use “AI” instead of “UI” more and more these days and I wonder if it’s part of the reason all startups suddenly feel like they have to introduce AI features — everyone keeps talking about how important it is after all
In my case it is auto correct on my phone. Maybe because people text about AI so much that their auto correct thinks it is supposed to be AI instead of UI. Like mine did.
I wonder what these people think AI means…
The fact we can even pick between multiple UIs is a blessing lol
Agreed.
I’m not fighting, I just want sync users to shut the fuck up and stop advertising their app at every possible minute, because those of us who aren’t using it have already decided it isn’t the one for us.
Maybe the real Reddit was the arguments with friends we made along the way
Aw that’s sweet
Fuck you
Awww, fuck you too!
I feel at home <3
Aww I missed the wholesome Reddit moments.
We’re ALL Reddit/Lemmy on this blessed day.
