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Sync Ultra Non-Big Tech (self.syncforlemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by KrisND to c/syncforlemmy

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I know its new, so am I to lemmy, but I was curious if there is any plans to release Sync Ultra outside of the Play Store.

The features sound awesome and want to support lemmy but not everyone has Google Play/iOS.

An option like threema has to buy a license key and download the .apk would be ideal and I'd be all aboard!

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I feel like the pool of Lemmy users who are willing to use a closed source app but not use the play store has to be incredibly small.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel there are a lot of custom rom users here which don't have play services built-in or its hard to implement

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but I feel like those people are mostly going to gravitate towards FOSS clients

[–] twistypencil -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they are decent, there is a limit of pain each Foss person can take

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

Choice and variety are important. If you only have one option/style, it will only take that one option failing for it to ruin things for everyone. What if Google Play somehow blocks an attack that foss-downloader apps are exposed to? What if the opposite happened?

Also, not having choices means that the official "choice" being made might not always be to your liking.

[–] KrisND 9 points 1 year ago

I think the amount of non Play Store/App Store users overall is very small. With GraphineOS at least I can restrict the app.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

But I bet we skew towards the "have considerable amounts of disposable income" of the economic spectrum.