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[โ€“] y2cwr2005 189 points 1 year ago (54 children)

As a software engineer I find it miraculous the amount of people that whine about somebody wanting to get paid for putting weeks, months, and years of their life into a product 100s of thousands of people CHOOSE to use.

[โ€“] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So many people sound more like "What do you mean making a website costs more than $20?" types than they realize.

[โ€“] Serpent 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have been using the Sync reddit app daily for years after paying a couple of quid to remove ads whenever I did that. Felt like a steal then and expensive now so, on balance, I'm comfortable having paid the ad randsome. I feel better knowing it all goes to the developer for his personal efforts.

[โ€“] regular_human 25 points 1 year ago

And it's a very high quality app, to boot. I've been a mobile software engineer for more than a decade and this level of polish doesn't just happen by accident

[โ€“] fidodo 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same. I'm very grateful for the FOSS options, they're like a public option. They create a baseline that paid apps have to surpass, but there's nothing wrong with devs getting paid for their work and that payment shouldn't have to be at the whims of donations. I view it as more choice and more choice is good. This is a small dev on an open platform that can't lock out FOSS options. It's not a mega corp building a monopoly. Sync is not hurting anyone by being a paid option.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 141 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Can't we just be happy that we're not on Reddit instead of fighting over which UI we prefer!?

[โ€“] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe the real Reddit was the arguments with friends we made along the way

[โ€“] Mr_Blott 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] Zoldyck 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My reply to all the naysayers:

Thanks for making Lemmy feel like home, it wouldn't without you!

The reality is it's a free world, regardless of what morality you put on things there are going to be things that happen that you don't like. That's life.

Like it or not Lemmy has had explosive growth because of apps like Sync. Because of them being killed off by Reddit. If it weren't for the drama of Reddit doing that, I and millions of other users wouldn't be here right now as we'd still be on Reddit.

Even people who weren't using the 3rd party apps left Reddit because Reddit's actions left a bad taste in their mouths.

So, morality of one guy charging for his honest work in creating the paid or ad supported app aside, you should be thanking the apps including sync for helping drive so many users to Lemmy.

If you yourself don't want to use a paid app, then that's okay! We're all allowed to respond or react to things how we want, but being incredibly divisive for something that a lot of people wanted and that really is inconsequential is almost universally frowned on.

Just let people do what they want and don't shoot them down for it. More options for browsing Lemmy = more Lemmings = more content.

Much love my dudes! We may disagree on this but we agree on many many many more things I'm sure, just because we're on Lemmy instead of Reddit in the first place is proof of that! โœŒ๏ธ

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[โ€“] C3D 87 points 1 year ago (48 children)

People care too much about which app you use. At the end of the day, as long as you're happy with sync it shouldn't matter

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[โ€“] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Remember folks whether you choose to use sync or another lemmy app none of us are using reddits shitty mobile app and in that way we are all winners

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[โ€“] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Honestly I'm using, and especially posting on, Lemmy much more often now that I have sync back.

I had been using Sync for Reddit for so many years that it became muscle memory. Now I have it back and things just feel right.

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[โ€“] blacklizardplanet 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah I feel the same. Used sync for Reddit for YEARS too. I've been using Lemmy way more since Sync launched. I'm happy with it ๐Ÿคท.

[โ€“] Trapping5341 15 points 1 year ago

I personally stopped browsing Reddit once getting sync. It just FEELS right.

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[โ€“] EmperorHenry 55 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Jeroba on mobile, web app inside of firefox with adblockers on desktop.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used Jeroba while I was waiting for sync to come out. Personally it's really no competition, it's great that it is being worked on but Jeroba is significantly worse in every way except for being open source. Hopefully someday it will be great!

Synk is just so polished comparatively everything else feels unfinished

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[โ€“] TheMadnessKing 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well Im trying out sync and it's honestly such a good and polished app. A big Kudos to the dev. Would probably buy the premium if the pricing goes down.

[โ€“] dditty 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's definitely the most polished, snappiest, cleanest Lemmy app atm and I am loving it

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[โ€“] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally, I don't give a flying fuck what client any of you use as long as you are here. :)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (18 children)

$20 to support a solo dev AND remove ads from his awesome lemmy client? Sweet!

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[โ€“] veroxii 42 points 1 year ago

Surely we can agree it's better to have too many choices rather than having some greedy piggy ban them all.

[โ€“] jwagner7813 36 points 1 year ago

One thing I didn't like from Reddit, the elitism and gatekeeping posts from its users. OP, I'm right there with you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (15 children)

It does seem like a large number of Lemmy users are elitist snobs. I thought this place was turning out better than Reddit, but it's looking like I was wrong. People like that ruin platforms like this and sour the experience.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shouldn't an ethical human choose tools that do more good than harm? As long as an application does that, does it matter if it's open source or not? The software we use in our daily lives is a personal choice and people shouldn't be shamed for choosing a closed source application. Especially one created by an independent, craftsman software company. Sync, and other well-designed for-profit clients, benefit Lemmy, an open platform. That benefits all.

Let me add, many of us are social media refugees, fleeing exploitative and closed platforms like Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook. There is also nothing wrong with continually evaluating the closed source solutions we choose to prevent repeating past mistakes.

[โ€“] Misconduct 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know about doing good or harm but I've used sync for reddit for years and years. The dev isn't some big corporation and that's generally enough for me. I'll support them as long as their app has the experience that I prefer. I tried a few different apps until sync came out and I really gave them all a fair shot but none of them felt right. The fact that so many users bailed to Lemmy because Reddit broke third party apps and then turned around and got up people's butts for using specific third party apps is kind of hilarious to me. A huge wave of users came here for sync etc and people are trying to push them away or bully them like reddit did? They might not be bullying for the same exact reason but it's got the same vibe imo.

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[โ€“] STUPIDVIPGUY 28 points 1 year ago

yeah i just dont care

[โ€“] Jackcooper 24 points 1 year ago

Gatekeepers are going to be the number 1 threat to lemmy growing

[โ€“] eochaid 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just happy for anything that brings people to Lemmy

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[โ€“] mruniverse 17 points 1 year ago

I used sync for years and no matter how many times I tried using other Reddit apps I always went back to using Sync. I was happy to see Sync reborn again as a lemmy client. Yes FOSS is nice but I have no problems supporting LJ even if sync isn't open sourced.

[โ€“] Aermis 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm home ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Not a sync user but cant wait for infinity for lemmy to be mature enough to appear on fdroid

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[โ€“] Skelectrician 16 points 1 year ago

It's not SfR, but it was created in a panic by a dedicated author. It'll get better.

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