No ads, No tracking and Opensource

Sync not only works. It's the smoothest App I have on my phone. The animations and transitions are just beautiful, well timed and do not stutter even a tiny bit. I wish all android apps were like Sync. I'll gladly pay whatever he charges.

Sync just seems to work.

And that is why I've used it for all these years. There are no weird quirks, it just does exactly what I need it to do.

Yeah I assumed the ad tracking was mostly Google's own doing, or whatever ad provider that hes using for injected ads.

Sync just seems to work.

Didn't I read the current version does not allow you to post? I feel its pretty weird to release an app in that state and still keep ads in it.

But if you are happy paying and using that, more power to you! Meanwhile I save that money and use one of the many open source clients that actually work.

Sync is fantastic, and I've used it for years. But I'll be sticking with Thunder. Its UI is close, and I'm able to contribute the things I want to change.

You do you, but for me personally, the only honest software in existence is software willing to disclose it's source code.

The lifetime purchase to remove ads is up. It's a bit pricey but I can understand why, Lemmy has a smaller userbase. Totally worth it.

Same here. The latest update has the "remove ads" option added for a one time 12.99 fee.

It's available as an IAP for $19.99 now

Same, I'm paying for the ultra subscription. But I understand if someone is using another app, Connect is pretty good. I'm just an old dog

Its not about the money but about the software freedom and source transparency

The community is one of the worst aspects when working with/on opensource software.

There are so many people with Open Source rabies...

Combine that with all those people who don't understand the difference between software developed by people who donate their spare time to work on FOSS software and for-profit software developed by big corporations. As a FOSS dev you get so many entitled assholes who think downloading a free app gives them the right to threaten/abuse the devs.

And then there are the fanboys who attack everyone who talks about downsides of their favourite product.

All in all, the hostile community makes FOSS development very not fun.

I voiced my opinion on one of the sync announcement posts and it was received quite controversially.

We all get stuck in our own camps and become quote tribal and I feel like all around it's difficult to not take what is being said as some kind of attack.

I don't get why instead of making posts about "Don't use Sync!" no one is saying "Feel free to use and pay for whatever you like! But as a friendly reminder please note that you should also consider helping your instance owners or the core Lemmy team as well."

There's nothing wrong at all with paying for software, and even some will be fine with ads. It has literally nothing to do with anyone else but that person. Let them do them.

Like I say though, I think the thing that should be being said is that the app is not self contained and that these people should seriously consider helping out the other aspects as well if they can. But hey, no, let's just belittle them and push them away instead of welcoming them. I can almost guarantee that the availability of Sync will bring more users to Lemmy that never would have been here otherwise.

I don't think the meme is bullying or shaming people using sync...right? He said he likes infinity better even though sync is awesome because its libre and open source

Same. Sync was the only way I accessed Reddit since 2012.

People like to removed

You have to accept to being tracked by Google, having an advertising id, all the data Firebase collects. Their ToS is large.

Users were asking for it, that's true. I guess users don't really care about being tracked, allowing google into their phone and indirectly supporting them controlling the web, thus enabling them to do things like manifest v3 or the web integrity API.

Ads? understandable, the dev has bills to pay. Not open source? Purists may hate it, but not the end of the world. Tracking? Google? No thanks, the beautiful design is not worth it.

Remind me of that meme where the person is complaining about the thing, gets the thing and then has the frowny face.

I have the option to remove ads in Sync right now. =)

There's just nothing that comes even close to Sync for me. Happy to support the developer.

I do not have ads either....but no idea why I do not have an ad blocker, they just appear.empty for some reason.

I've tried different reddit third party apps for months at a time, and I've got to say, Sync is probably the best app I have used in terms of designs and fluidity.

Same I haven't seen a single ad. I'll probably pay to removed them anyways but I want to evaluate the competition first

What adblocker are you using?

Agreed. Nobody gave a fuck the app used on Reddit, and there's no reason to care now. You do you

nailed it

You are commenting on a meme that says the same thing you just did in a slightly different and more concise way, though. All I see in the comments is people saying why they prefer one app over another. I don't really see anybody bashing people for picking a a specific app.

I think you are overreacting a bit.

If you do see people being bullied for picking one app over another, then I apologize. I just mostly see people criticizing Sync for not being FOSS, or see people criticizing the FOSS stuff for not being user friendly. I don't really see a problem with people criticizing software, as long as it isn't an attack on the users of said software.

I do agree that there are too many damn posts about this, but I don't really care about it that much. Maybe others do.

Infinity was a reddit app first, too.

what's the point of judging? Sync is the only app so far that has full, thoughtful support for foldable phones and the dev genuinely has been putting in a lot of work into it. I bought the No Ads IAP and I'm perfectly happy with it, but there are so many good options now for those that want something completely free.

• I'm just used to it, and no other client accommodates my workflow (liftoff is very close but has some annoying issues, quirks and differences),
• It's quality software with great design and a lot of customization options.

do you really have a hard time understanding how different people have different preferences and how familiarity works or do you just like being smug?

as for "trackers" and ads you will find that unless they are intrusive about 99% of the population doesn't give a fuck, even on a fairly niche site like lemmy the majority won't give a fuck.

I love FOSS but I got pretty used to the official reddit app, and Sync is the only app that feels like if the reddit app wasn't buggy and laggy. The paid aspect doesn't bother me because I would have donated to whatever app I use anyway, at $5/mo the $20 one time ad removal option makes sense if I use it for more than 4 months so it's worth it to me.

I'm soooo happy to be done with Jerboa... Haven't uninstalled it yet but it's such a buggy piece of crap compared to Sync so it's only a matter of time til I do.

Check out all the UI options. The customization is really awesome, even if it's a little confusing at times. The search box in options helps.

I lasted half a day with Jerboa, it really didn't work for me. Connect has kept me happy since though.

i'm using memmy (iOs) ! works very good, and it feels nostalgic since they tried their best to... be inspired by apollo 😄

That's Voyager.

Hopefully the dev changes his mind about not creating an app for lemmy

Have you heard of wefwef? It’s basically Apollo for Lemmy.

Link to a Reddit post about it, quickest I could find in short order at work:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14lr2n4/wefwef_is_an_apollo_like_web_app_for_lemmy/

Yeah, it's called Voyager, and it doesn't even have the Pixel Pals or pop-ups that ruined Apollo!

I used sync for reddit for years, I had no ads in the free version and the pro version. I've tried a half dozen apps for Lemmy since my Reddexit. Sync for Lemmy is far and away the best. I really missed its design. I was happy to toss $20 to you for no ads on Sync for Lemmy. Thanks for all the hard work.

I drove through it once, looked rough as shit.

Nice, I have family in Nottinghamshire.

Also, is your .ml or .world your main instance? The .world seems to have the biggest audience

That's how I've always read this meme format. It literally says the non-preferred option is still brilliant.

Sure, but when people are excited about something, they're going to trash-talk. It's healthy to have the freedom of debate these choices.

Anyone can choose to install whatever software they choose on their device, but the "free" in free software specifically refers to the freedom to read and modify the source code.

Under the philosophy of the FOSS movement, all proprietary software are by definition unethical.

Since Lemmy and the larger fediverse is the choice for many free software advocates, it's natural that you see this kind of backlash when fundamentally unethical software to interact with it is released.

Does this meme make you feel disrespected? Why?

Yep. Incentives align differently for different people, which is what makes a healthy market work.

You can

Don't worry, this type of "drama" is only serving to make the community larger in the long run.

It is very much in alpha stage now,but usable for me.

I also face the same issue with play store, I ended up using Aurora store(fdroid) to download the app.

Strange, I have a Galaxy S23 Ultra and I had no issues installing it.

I started using Infinity today and it seems to be working great for everything that I need it for.

was using Thunder the past couple of weeks, because I couldn"t get warm with Jerboa, but once I saw Infinity comming out, I immediately downloaded it and haven't had problems since

Give me Relay for Lemmy lol.

I like connect too, so far it is the only that property display gif avatars and gif in comments

Is connect open source?

Amen.

Posted from my browser which is technically an app...

Am I blind or is there no APK? I need to get on the computer and build this?

Oh my fucking God, thank you! I feel like home again

I hope they can get set up on f-droid or something sooner rather than later, as I don't want to have to manually install and update apks

I'm pretty happy with Jerboa but I'm waiting for RedReader to add Lemmy support.

Why people insulting them just for this comment? Open-source fanatics are real.

People that diss open source are dumbass dipshits. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Open source software runs most of the Internet and this social media platform. It has provide more value to every one of us than any closed source retail software ever could.

All your closed source software runs on open source libraries dipshit.

I'm sorry to say, but you seem to be clueless in the world of software engineering. Open vs closed source does not make any software better or worse. This solely depends on the talent and will of the developers to create a good app for you. That can happen in both worlds, but just because an app is not open source doesn't make it better in any ways. Rethink it. Sync might be a nice client, but you're dependent on this one dev to always deliver a good experience and keep updating, whereas if it was open source,you could be sure someone would continue the work and help fix some issues if anything was to happen. Open source has a lot of potential. Don't let anyone fool you into thinking it's worse in any way. It's not.

I think for me, I've used sync for reddit since like '15. So coming to lemmy with sync... Its like coming home. I've tried connect and liftoff though, and like both.

After using Sync for so long and having it set up just so other apps feel janky, through no fault of their own. I have it set up very information dense with amoled dark theme and colorful comment indents. I could kind of look over theme issues, but the interaction just felt off.

Connect was what I was using, though, and I preferred it over wefwef/Voyager which had a less wasteful feeling UI to me.

https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy/releases