One of my issues with Lemmy so far is how meta it is.
Reddit is often meta, sure, but 60% of the content I'm seeing here (while browsing Everything) is about how much better Lemmy is or whatever app people are using to access it. Let's get back to shitposting, articles, and memes please. I want this platform to work and I don't think it will if this content continues.
This discourse in these comments is stupid. People can complain about Sync if they have something to complain about. It's a fucking forum. Personally I hate the idea of restricting features and using ads to get people to pay, especially when I have several FOSS apps that work perfectly for me, I don't think Sync feels any more "slick".
There, that's my opinion. I don't like Sync and I'm not attacking anyone for using it.
I'm also a huge believer in open source. I'm using Infinity for Lemmy right now but I gladly paid for the ad removal in Sync. It genuinely is the best Lemmy app out right now. It just works and has so many customization options. Not to mention, since Sync uses Google for ads, when you remove the ads, the ad component isnt initialized so you remove the tracking. So nothing to worry about there either. 20$ lifetime for such an awesome app is totally fair for me. That's my opinion, you are free to disagree.
Another meme about Sync for Lemmy... You dare today don't you?
Product is king.
Inertia is also in play.
Sync for Lemmy is built by the same guy that built sync for Reddit. Built using seemingly a lot of the same code.
I bounced between all the open source apps and have started using sync for Lemmy because it's familiar and it works. It also seems to be much faster than the others, maybe due to more aggressive caching/prefetching? Or that could be a placebo effect.
I was always having weird issues with jebora and the rest of them, and was not a fan of Voyager's interface.
I might try connect, jebora, etc again a bit later. Might also purchase the one time and remove for sync, might donate to Lemmy instances, etc.
For now I'm just glad to have a familiar interface.
Infinity for Lemmy just dropped, typing from it now.
Don't let anyone pressure you into trying (or not trying) different apps if you have one you like. Sync happens to be the one that resonated with me the most, but other people won't feel the same.
I support open sauce btw
Jebora for the Win!
I’m on Mlem for iOS but it’s still early access, but I still love it
What I’ve noticed is any third party app won’t matter until we get some more content that isn’t the front page buzzing about the exact same topic for multiple days. Right now ironically it’s all talking about Sync, when a lot of iOS users can’t even use it.
“Sweet, an actual meme post not just more discussion about Sync for Lemmy!”
“Oh…”
Is there a FOSS app that has the *peeking"-feature? (Long pressing a picture to get full size preview) That feature has been an absolute game changer to me.
I see myself
I installed both Sync and Infinity on the same day and I've mostly used Infinity since, I just don't get the fuss about Sync, I think it's only nostalgia from its Reddit users tbh (I used Boost for Reddit fwiw).
Rocking Memmy for Lemmy atm and it’s quite good atm.
Sure, if those other apps worked for me. But they didn't. Feeds wouldn't refresh. Local would show. And comments wouldn't post.
Don't worry voyager I'll never leave you and captain Janeway
Everybody in here is freaking out about devs having to eat are entirely missing the point that the devs are already eating thanks to ad revenue they introduced into their own app. Having to pay to remove ads isn't supporting the dev because the dev is already supporting themselves with ads. Call the cash grab a cash grab if you want, but understand that this is what it is.
