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.
I am really enjoying Sync so far. It's a great Lemmy client.
If it gets people to stop using Reddit, it works
Lemmy with choices. Lemmy wins
Just wait until Boost comes out..
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?
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.
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.
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.
inifinity supremacy
Sync is where it's at
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.
oh gosh on how much i wish i was posting this comment on thunder
My choice was simple I need playback controls for video/gifs Tried liftoff and was great, but currently on sync and loving it
When Sync got released, I was feeling guilty using it (as a jerboa user). But over time, I got used to it. It makes me use lemmy on my phone too, so I still consider this step in a better direction.
Functionality wise, I dislike icons and app icon on jerboa.
I would love to use Thunder, but for some reason, my screen is locked to 60 Hz on Thunder, Connect and Liftoff and it's really off-putting.
You know it feels good
Right now I have five apps for lemmy, Artemis and the kbin PWA. And I also deleted two other apps earlier today.
I use summit. Its great!
Infinity For Lemmy dropped not so long ago in F-Droid!!
