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Memmy - An iOS client for Lemmy

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My feed has been flooded with posts about the Sync app released for Android, with a lot of hype but also some complaints regarding pricing, ads, privacy, etc.

This made me really appreciate Memmy, with which I have had no issues so far, and am impressed with how clean and easy it has been to use despite being new.

So that’s all, just a huge thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Well, it’s including the „Microsoft App Center“ tracker. I have to block ||appcenter.ms^

Several other Lemmy Apps do not have any tracker.

Edit: turns out the request can be useful. See comments. Still strange to get from Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d guess that’s because we use CodePush to do over the air updates, so you don’t have to wait for apple to approve a build.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for letting me know. :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Just for more reference, there are options to enable analytics, but they are not installed in the app. That is a separate package that is not added as I don't feel comfortable receiving whatever they would send. It's probably harmless but I don't even want the hassle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Appcenter does OTA push updates, dev is probably making a fast update system so they don't have to push updates to the various stores, the app was made in react native so appcenter is pretty standard for codepush OTA updates

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It’s used for updates not tracking

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you sure it’s the app and not websites you visit through Lemmy or your instance tracking you? I’m not seeing any tracking on my end when just browsing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I am sure. The App Store even say that some device ID are get shared with the App.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Device ID is just for push notifications.