2y ago

It's so nice to see them all growing, but this is just the truth, sorry.

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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...
- Yea I've tried every app and there's just nothing as smooth as the sync app. Tossing an independent dev $20 a year for something I'm getting thousands of hours of use out of is a no brainer. I give Netflix more every month and don't get nearly as much value. Too many people expect to get everything for free.
  
  This paid vs open source thing is silly. They are not antonyms. You can still charge for an open source app. But being open source would make it user auditable so that we know what they are doing with our data.
  
  It's true. I just view it as a donation or a convenience fee for not having to build the app yourself from source.
  
  Sync dev has made it incredibly clear what data is being recorded and it's only because of Google ads
  
  The point is that with a closed source app your only support for that statement is trust in the developer, while if it was open source we would actually be able to confirm that.
  
  If it's open source, the developer can't monetize it. Everyone will just be able to remove ads and compile it from scratch.
  FOSS is all fine and dandy, unless being a developer for a popular service (or app) is your sole source of income.
  
  That's just not what really happens though. Look at Robert Broglia's emulators. They are open source and paid, and are some of the most popular paid emulators on the play store despite the fact that people could just download the source from his site and compile them.
  
  Bruh I dont care what sort of sauce it has I dont want to compile, it what the fuck. You can have my money, just pipe the memes into my cerebral cortex.
  
  Yup. Enable my doomscrolling habit = take my money.
  
  Exactly. And lifetime is just about 100 bucks, who cares. Sure it sounds like more than the casual $2 you throw at a random app to remove ads, but considering that I used Sync daily for ~12 years, it's really just peanuts in the long run.
  I've bought a bunch of seemingly cheaper apps and then used them 10 times over 2 years and they ended up discontinued, that's like 20 cents per use.
  I'd have racked up tens of thousands with Sync that way. Easily the most used app on my phone.
- 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?
  Sent from Sync Ultra
- 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.

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