Well we are spoiled for choice none the less
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This. It's not for me. But I'm glad it exists.
Actually I've been using Jerboa for long enough that I've really gotten used to it and I love it now, super functional
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It seems unsustainable and mixed up to think no one should ever use non-FOSS options for anything.
Maybe that would be the case if we were in some post scarcity perfect society where no one needed income, and all devs were just doing it for self-fulfillment, but I can't blame someone for wanting to make income off of their work. Especially if they seem like a reasonable person, wanting reasonable amounts for good work.
Isn't supporting a smaller dev a good thing? I mean, this guy got screwed over by reddit fucking up his income.
Ain't that the truth. People act like charging for software is evil no matter what. There's a huge difference between a lone dev trying to earn a living and a huge corporation trying to wring every last ounce of profit out of their users. And there's probably degrees of nuance between those.
Especially if they seem like a reasonable person, wanting reasonable amounts for good work.
And that's the important context in this discussion. You've got a dev who's active in the community and who builds an app not only with great features and UI but with stability too. And he has a not insignificant user base that is familiar not just with his work but essentially with this exact app... It's reasonable for him to assume we'll see the value and be willing to pay. And he is correct.
I'm personally averse to subscription models, but again context matters. Reasonable rate and you know what you're getting. And I say this as a huge fan of both FOSS and socialism. I could have easily just let my DNS continue to filter out the ads, but I appreciate quality and believe it should be appropriately compensated.
actually, speaking of the subscription, the fact that ads can be removed with either the subscription or a one time payment is one of my favorite things about sync. I don't really like subscriptions either, but then the only feature I really wanted from Sync was the ads removed, so I don't have to even care about the subscription. I wish that kind of monetization style was WAY more popular.
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And it's really great, something worth paying for, imo.
I got like ten years out of Sync for Reddit. I even bought the $30 package and feel like I got more than my money's worth.
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I am really enjoying Sync so far. It's a great Lemmy client.
I'm really enjoying Thunder. Love the comment screen
Thunder has been my main app for a while but Sync just works so well. Also seems to be less battery intensive.
I was on the fence because I didn't need the subscription features, but instantly bought the ad free IAP for $12.99 as soon as it was added. It still seems a bit steep for an app, but it's one-time, and supports the Dev (whose Reddit app I used for years) so I didn't really mind. That and it was $0.40 after using my opinion rewards credits
It's nearly AUD $35 in my country. Pretty steep, and the full functionality isn't quite there yet. (Can't post, limited search etc)
If it goes on sale it'll be an insta-buy, but the price right now is kinda high.
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That pill bottle was ripped open and I snorted all that sync as soon as it was refilled.
Yup. I had $5 of Google opinion rewards money saved, so it was only 15ish out of the bank account. I work full time... I think I'll be fine. Plus honestly, the dude worked hard creating a fantastic app. He deserves to be rewarded for that.
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If it gets people to stop using Reddit, it works
Lemmy with choices. Lemmy wins
Infinity for lemmy just dropped in F-droid. Hello old friend....glad you've arrived
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What I'm still struggling with is if it's still ok with my mortal compass to use Reddit to find information I know will be there. Specifically, product reviews.
I'm no longer contributing content on Reddit, and I'm not passively browsing either, but how do y'all feel about tapping reddit's wealth of information?
Do whatever you want, bud. If the info is helpful to you, who is anybody to say you can't access it?
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Why does it matter what we think?
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Just wait until Boost comes out..
Connect: Am I a joke to you?
Huge sync fan and pro user for many years now but I couldn't get over the subscription and especially the one off cost, it's just too much.
Been using infinity for reddit as soon as sync went down and it's easily my favourite app out of all that's available but it's not without it's downsides, at least to me. So I'll happily use inifity for lemmy from now on, it even seems to run better then the reddit app lol.
Same here. It was my second favorite Reddit client (after Boost, and, for a while, Dash), but I feel he priced himself right out of the market. I'm waiting to see what Boost for Lemmy has to offer and at what cost.
I never really warmed up to Infinity for Reddit, but I'll give it another shot. Connect and LiftOff aren't bad either for being this early in development and Voyager just came out swinging.
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I'm on Jerboa and downloaded/installed sync yesterday. As a former RIF user, I don't have a horse in this race. I am more familiar with Jerboa, but find the overall feel of both (admittedly, without a lot of use, to be pretty comparable).
That said, I kind of like some of the ideas in Jerboa more? For example, tap to minimize comments and their children on Jerboa is quite a bit faster. I'm kind of sad that both make selecting some of the text in a comment hard and miss the RIF collapse/expand button. Jerboa also matches the font size of everything else in my UI better than Sync. For example, the font size of this reply and my keyboard are the same in Jerboa. In Sync the in-app font size is quite a bit smaller.
At the end of the day, I think that both apps are going to be largely comparable for a fairly casual user like me. I bet both offer more functionality than I'm using, but so far I don't feel like I'm missing anything.
I no longer have an Android so idk how the new Sync is, but the version for Reddit was extremely customizable and did have option to disable tap to minimize and give you a button instead. I used Sync daily for nearly 10 years and itβs by far the best experience Iβve had
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With how long it's taking to have something to download, Boost is either gonna be left behind or will be the best app ever that was worth the wait.
Why do none of these memes mention connect? It's the best one.
I've tried Connect and it failes to save imagesfor me. So maybe some incompatibility or something, but now I'm trying to live with Liftoff
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I tried Sync for a little bit, but I didn't really vibe with it to be honest, Infinity is still by far my favourite phone client.
Really, you should just download it anyway and try it, you'll find out quickly if it's for you or not.
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I haven't tried Sync but I've tried Connect and Jerboa and I'm now on Liftoff. All have felt pretty smooth to me, Liftoff especially is about as smooth as I could imagine anything being. I've got no problem with people using Sync bit I don't get how they're having such a bad experience on other apps.
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Show me a foss client which shows community suggestions in the search bar when you start typing and auto collapsing comments features. Otherwise you can't change my mind.
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