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The gatekeeping is so fucked up
office_thank_you.jif!
We all ditch reddit because of how they screwed over 3rd party devs, and now one of the devs have worked overtime to create a similar UI* for this place, and now that dev is chopped liver. WTF?
*I'm just guessing on that part, because I didn't try sync for reddit and I'm using the mobile web interface for lemmy for now, so I can't really say.
Same UI! I love it
Am I missing something? What gatekeeping?
The fact that people shit on every proprietary software saying FOSS is better.
While FOSS is definitely good for the consumer. Proprietary is sometimes just better in function ¯\(ツ)/¯
All the people you find here fled from a proprietary platform that was abusing its position of power in order to profit off its users. While Sync for Lemmy is not in the same ballpark it nonetheless shares the same proprietary nature of reddit as it is a proprietary client that connects to a platform that is completely FOSS. So I believe it is entirely valid to campaign against the use of Sync for Lemmy and educate everyone about its dangers (loss of freedom, trust can't be verified, abusive relationship)
I didn't join Lemmy because of the ideology behind the project I joined it because I didn't approve of what the owners of reddit were doing.
If the Sync dev starts ruining the app I'll get a different one for the same reason I made a Lemmy account.
The key detail you are missing is that most people that left reddit did so on the backs of closed source third party apps. That's what kicked off the entire firestorm of events. The reality was that, of those who used third party apps, most used closed sourced solutions.
FOSS is great. FLOSS is even better. People should support projects they identify with, just like people should support their home Lemmy instance via community funding. But far too many of the argument I'm seeing against Sync and others basically boils down to "we shouldn't pay for software," like our [software engineer] labor is just something to be had for free.
Closed source third party apps are no threat to Lemmy. The failings of reddit cannot happen to Lemmy so long as one instance does not come to define Lemmy in such a way that they can self-isolate and essentially turn into a proprietary model itself. Let's all recall that Reddit was, once upon a time, open source.
Third party apps are about choice. I hardly consider someone using a closed source third party app--in a sea of many, many FOSS versions--a loss of freedom or an abusive relationship. Come on, that's very hyperbolic. And I'd wager 99% of people can't verify that trust even if they wanted to since most people don't understand code, let alone software development practices. They just take the word of random strangers whom they have no right trusting saying "yeah it looks good."
And this comment just shows that Foss shits all over our freedom to use whatever software we want.
How is this gatekeeping???
"You aren't welcome here if you aren't FOSS."
It's pretty damn clear.
The choice of a "teletubby" is obviously meant to be insulting too. If the point were that it was just different, they could have used practically any other hero from the same viewer demographic, instead they went with one only watched by "babies", and almost universally understood to be "stupid".
Like the other guy said, this is a popular meme format, OP didn't draw this. They're not saying Sync is bad, they're saying it's not FOSS like everything else we've seen so far
But I guess it's a matter of interpretation. I liked the meme but I'm sending this from Sync ¯\_(ツ)_/¯