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Appreciation post for Liftoff not collecting user data or injecting ads. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/liftoff

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I was looking forward to trying Sync today now that it's live, but my enthusiasm was immediately dampened after seeing the "Data Safety" section on the Google Play store.

Liftoff has been great, and want to say thanks for making an awesome app. This will continue to be my daily driver.

Edit: for clarity, because the post got way bigger than I expected.

Sync looks like a fantastic app, and the dev/s should charge whatever they feel is fair for their efforts, even if that's through the usual ads + ad tracking.

My intent was just to post here in /c/Liftoff to thank the Liftoff devs for managing to somehow offer an awesome app without any of that.

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[+] [email protected] -62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do Sync dev need to pay Lemmy and the instance?

The price is for the client, not for the Lemmy platform or instance hosting (which is free, being the point).

[+] [email protected] -47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You are talking as if Sync dev went and plastered ads all over Lemmy web app, Voyager, Infinity, Connect, Thunder etc.

Those are still ad-free, so people who love them can continue using them. Those who want to pay Sync can pay Sync. Lemmy platform remains unchanged. What's the problem?

You enjoy that first class crap. Edit: It's official, the $ync army consists of insufferable, ball sucking douchebags.

I do enjoy Sync and I hope to continue to. I ain't mad but you seem to be, I just don't understand why.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If people like something, they are always owed it, in it's fullest form, totally free of charge! Devs can just use a food bank .../s

Some of these comments though...

[+] [email protected] -25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Just wait it out, people are excited about Sync but they are not gonna post forever. Block me if you want, you do you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You say that as though there aren't far more posts on the front page of lemmy right now trashing sync than those praising it. Most of the discussion around it is people trashing it, not people praising it

Let people use what they like and get over the fact that not everyone wants to use the same software as you. The fact that you feel the need to block people because they enjoy a piece of software you don't like says a lot more about you than it does about anything else

I really don't get why so many people are so bent out of shape about an app they don't even have to use,

[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

Well, on my feed there aren’t

That's odd, given that you've posted comments and many of the highly upvoted anti-sync posts on the front page rn lol - meanwhile I can't find more than handful of barely upvoted pro-sync posts on any community that isn't specifically for the app.

I think it’s a farce.

Yeah you've made that pretty clear lol, and you're welcome to think that, given that no one is making you use it, nor are any of their users basing their decision making on your personal opinion about it.

I'd also disagree that a $20 one time payment for high quality software is "insane" but clearly you and I have very different views when it comes to this stuff, so no point in arguing back and forth.

If I were you, I'd just move on and ignore it - spending as much energy (literally doz3ens of comments based on a quick look at your post history as this on not liking something as trivial as a lemmy app isn't healthy, especially since your comments seem to be getting more and more toxic as your "discussions" continue...

EDIT: Just navigated from this comment to my front page and saw this

Of the top 10 posts, 5 (and mostly the 5 nearest the top) are people complaining about Sync, so tell me more about how it's the Sync users who are spamming all over Lemmy about their app preferences lol

[–] Mr_Blott 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi Zeerover, please go back to Reddit, we left because of poisonous little kids like you.

Thanks and have a nice life

[–] beatit 2 points 1 year ago

Hey man. You should download Sync

[–] m0nky 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I completely disagree with you, but am upvoting for the entertaining temper tantrum. Great stuff.

[–] Deftdrummer 3 points 1 year ago

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

"What's a good temper tantrum without a little homophobia?" - Zeeroover

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

The sync dev's source of income is the app. You don't have to use the app if you don't want to pay for it you big whiny baby.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I will say in Sync’s defense that they have given free access to many Lemmy moderators and the instance admins of Lemmy.world so they are contributing in some way

[–] tester123123123 1 points 1 year ago

[+] [email protected] -16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

All code should be free! No one should ever make a living writing code. It makes no damn sense. Writing code is the easiest thing on the planet. Asking money for it is pure greed.

I guess I should have added "/s". I really didn't think it was needed. 😅