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I couldn't care less if foss app users or developers are butthurt because closed apps are suddenly available and gaining popularity.
Sync for lemmy landed and it has been more stable and has more features than any of the other lemmy apps I've tried.
Maybe if the foss apps were stable and feature rich more casual plebs like me would use them, but at the moment they all feel kind of broken.
Also, I would take issue with jerboa here. Jerboa is there but not Connect? Lol...
Totally agreed. Make a good app, I'll use it. FOSS is nice but honestly I just want a great experience. Right now Sync is the only one offering that. All of the other apps range somewhere between bad and eh... Fine.
Maybe we should just celebrate that there isn't a closed API forcing us to use just one app?
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Connect isn't open-source, afaik. (Using it to post this comment.)
What of the features youre missing? Ive been using liftoff since july and cant say i seem to miss anything or having it crash :/
Yeah I think I find this problem a lot with most projects with a FOSS community. Lamenting about the lack of large scale take up of a project whilst also getting ideologically gatekeepy about the user experience.
Apps like Sync are a gateway for converting Reddit users over to Lemmy and we should celebrate them.