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I have no idea why so many people are upset about Sync. There are so many FOSS alternatives. Just… don’t use it? It literally doesn’t impact you at all.
I’ve been living under a rock, what’s the deal with sync?
Sync for Reddit was a popular-ish third-party Reddit app. The dev has been working on building a version of it for Lemmy, and the surrounding community has been pretty excited for it. Recently, Sync for Lemmy was released, and there’s been a lot of fanfare, conversation, etc. In my opinion, it’s the most polished Lemmy client by far. Some people are annoyed that the premium features cost significantly more than they did in Sync for Reddit. The dev said it’s to offset the smaller user base, which seems reasonable to me, but it’s spurred a lot of arguments about the paid model.
The big one is that it introduces ads while Lemmy is an ad-free platform, and the option to pay to remove ads isn’t regionalized, so for some people it’s wildly expensive to buy. There’s also some question about some of the permissions.
The developer is implementing regional pricing as we speak though.
The Sync for Reddit Dev has released an app for lemmy. People are salty because it’s way better than any of the foss apps that are currently out.
Infinity just dropped, so your time is limited!
Oh I’m definitely going to give it a try once it hits fdroid so it’s easy to update. I’m not somehow thinking that Sync is inherently better than Foss apps. But it was always going to feel more mature. It’s a conversion of an app that’s been in development for 11 years, rather than a brand new app.
Yeah that’s my take. If you like what you have, just keep using it lol.
I switched to Sync is because it seems to play nicer with my foldable phone than Voyager or Jerboa, but otherwise they’re all pretty much just as solid as each other imoor even Connect, which is not open source and used/praised by thousands of people
What are you goofballs fighting about? Your fav lemmy app? Just scroll in peace
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Oi! Kindly throw that elsewhere, you muppet!
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I cant wait for round 2 when Boost launches
I love boost! Can’t wait!
Also Liftoff!
No love for Connect? Best app I’ve used so far.
I’m a RIF refugee, and Connect is definitely filling that void
It’s not FOSS either, that’s why the FOSS people don’t mention it.
Thank you for the link kind stranger. I’ll try that one out, too.
Been speedrunning Lemmy apps the past few days
I’ve really been liking it, FOSS or not.
Here I am still using Jerboa
Do y’all know your phone has a browser?
It does. But I still use my mail app instead of going to gmail.com, I use my Spotify app instead of going to Spotify.com, I use the YouTube app, etc.
Sometimes a specialized app is just better. For me that’s definitely the case w sync.
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I’m proving their point that sometimes a service is worth paying for (either through cash or by seeing ads)? In that case, yeah I guess I am. Different people have different preferences. Go figure.
I bet half the people pretending Sync to be some malicious spyware have set Chrome as their default browser
I wish it was that low.
The best way to lemmy is mlmym.org on LibreWolf. Works great on Linux phone and has the same old.reddit interface I’ve used for over a decade.
Why waste space on single-purpose apps when you have a browser. Also, websites can’t track you or waste resources when you aren’t actively using them like apps can.
Is there a stable FOSS app? I always favor that variety when available.
Liftoff has been super stable all the time I’ve used it, Infinity for Lemmy is surprisingly stable for something new, I’ve had no crashes at all. Both of them are updating very quickly and get better all the time.
Off the top of my head I know that Mlem, Memmy, and Jerboa are FOSS. Most of the others probably are too, but those are the ones I have ready to hand
I’d tired Mlem when it first released and had some crashing issues. I’ll give it and Memmy another go. Thanks!
It’s come leaps and bounds since it launched–I’ve been stalking the GitHub and the current dev build is nice. The App Store version is still a little rough but they’ve got an update in beta that smooths it out a lot
Memmy is the best I have found. A lot of the issues recently have been related to instance problems like with lemmy.world. Stuff that Memmy isn’t at fault for.
That said, I am very excited to try the Voyager iOS App when it releases!
You don’t have to pick sides.
What about Lemmios, Avelon and Bean…
Liftoff is the only app that does swipe anywhere to go back so it’s the only real usable alternative so far
On Memmy and swipe for back is working
We must not be on the same version then. In Memmy I can only swipe anywhere on the bottom menu bar to go back (and of course from the left edge of the screen like all apps).
I tried Thunder yesterday and it also has that feature.
Me again, it doesn’t seem to work with swipe anywhere in the comment section though. Too bad :( I hope they’ll fix it because the app (Thunder) seems nice. Back to Liftoff…
Does liftoff do it from the comment section? I haven’t tried it. And if so does that interfere with your upvote/downvote swipes? (If it has that) I tried turning off the upvote/downvote swipes on thunder and it still wouldn’t let me swipe out of a post from the comments but now that I think about it, I wouldn’t want that unless it was only just one half of the screen so I could still upvote. I keep going back to Voyager because it feels like Apollo and I’m hoping they’ll emplement the swipe back at least from the post portion soon. I’ve got like 5-6 apps for Lemmy on my iPad. It’s pretty great we’re getting so much to choose from.
I’m like you, I also switch between many and Voyager sure is very Apollo like. And one of the apps that most consistently works.
Yeah, Liftoff allows for swipe anywhere also on comments. That’s how I personally want it, different behaviours depending on where you are is not very nice. You can still swipe left to upvote or save I believe, I am not sure if itself possible to change that yet.
The best thing would just be if one app managed to copy Apollo, it is the gold standard in usability.
I also think it’s very impressive with so many cool apps. Fantastic developers. But I kind of wish I had just one that was suiting.
Thanks for the tip, trying it now and it seems nice!
Sync does this too, and you can enable a discord style sliding drawer too
It works perfectly fine on Sync
I set my android to use swipe gesture to go back. So this is not an issue for me. Anyways. Posting this using Voyager
also plugging infinity for lemmy, it’s really good, but incomplete as of the moment.
Thanks for the tip. I’m on iOS. I didn’t know you could set swipe anywhere on the screen in Android to go back. That’s cool.
Forgot Liftoff and Bean.
Lol I have the exact 3 beta apps on my phone that I use alternately. You can also add the desktop web apps on there too. I’m on a desktop browser 80% of the time, so I use alexandrite as a front-end.
What does FOSS stand for?
Free and Open-Source Software
