How it feels as an iOS user right now

How much is the one time payment?

This seems like a bit of a strawman argument. I haven't seen anyone say that explicitly—if they have, it certainly isn't common. I have seen people say they're willing to pay for a "higher quality app," and I can see how you could interpret the implication there being that FOSS apps are shitty in comparison. For me, though, I don't interpret it the same way, and I'd assume positive intent. Some people like Sync better than the other apps and are willing to pay for it. That's it, really.

I might prefer potatoes, but you might hate potatoes.

If we were looking at dishes in a restaurant, I might think one dish is a better value, because I like potatoes. You might think that that dish isn't worth it if you hate potatoes. It doesn't mean that the dish is better or worse, just that we have different preferences.

I don't use sync myself, so I can't speak on what specific aspects other people prefer over the FOSS apps. They might trust the developer more because they've interacted with them for a while, they might like how the UI works with their specific device, or they might even just like the logo. At the end of the day, it doesn't effect me, as I can just keep using jerboa.

Sync for Reddit was a popular app.

After the whole API thing the dev started developing sync for Lemmy.

The open beta was just released.

The free version includes ads.

You can remove ads with a subscription, or with a one time payment of $20.

The Reddit ad free version was like $5, so the price increase pissed some people off.

Also the FOSS or die people got pissed off.

There are many great Lemmy apps, I say just use whatever works best for you.

The Sync for Reddit Dev has released an app for lemmy. People are salty because it's way better than any of the foss apps that are currently out.

Sync for Reddit was a popular-ish third-party Reddit app. The dev has been working on building a version of it for Lemmy, and the surrounding community has been pretty excited for it. Recently, Sync for Lemmy was released, and there's been a lot of fanfare, conversation, etc. In my opinion, it's the most polished Lemmy client by far. Some people are annoyed that the premium features cost significantly more than they did in Sync for Reddit. The dev said it's to offset the smaller user base, which seems reasonable to me, but it's spurred a lot of arguments about the paid model.

The big one is that it introduces ads while Lemmy is an ad-free platform, and the option to pay to remove ads isn’t regionalized, so for some people it’s wildly expensive to buy. There’s also some question about some of the permissions.

The dress was black and blue either way.

It's only stupid because it's clearly orange

Different Lemmy apps have different upvote buttons, soon. We will do a mild amount of tomfoolery and a massive amount of horsing around with this knowledge :trolling.jpg:

Oi! Kindly throw that elsewhere, you muppet!

It's up for pre-registration on Google Play, and it has a community floating around somewhere. Not quite ready yet, but last I heard he's getting close.

And my bow!

the protocol that allows instances to communicate is, but AFAIK there’s an API that apps use… the protocol is kinda just for how to push raw bulk data around, whilst the instance itself does things like filter based on “top”, “hot”, etc

also, in activitypub things like the actor (user), each comment, post, etc are individual objects which must be requested individually (or in a list via a search i think?), so any app that communicates via activitypub would need to make hundreds of requests to the instance to display a single post, comments, and user information!

Right there with you. I use —reddit— lemmy on my phone on the go. I want a button in a consistent place that opens it quickly.

I open my browser, oops I was looking at another tab I’ll just go through my tabs to find the specific website I’m looking for this time. At that point the browser is just its own app picker inside of another app picker. I have even added links to my Home Screen as well, but I’ve run into many issues with opening loads of dupes and clogging up my tabs. Maybe browser works in a perfect world (or even just a world where I save links in pocket or something instead of tabs idk) but it kind of just seems like an app browser with extra steps. Browser elitists do themselves no favors acting high and mighty about literally just not having an app? About saving 70MB like it’s 1999? Idk it’s a dumb argument. Everybody’s solution works for them.

I wish it was that low.

Another Memmy fan. No issues at all. Memmy on IOS, Voyager on desktop..

I’ve been using Memmy for weeks and it’s been fantastic. I was Apollo before, for comparison.

Awesome, installing it now.

I think I have like 5 Lemmy apps installed, including the voyager web app, but I keep coming back to Memmy.

I’d tired Mlem when it first released and had some crashing issues. I’ll give it and Memmy another go. Thanks!

So does Memmy, does it not?

Thanks for the tip, trying it now and it seems nice!

Me again, it doesn’t seem to work with swipe anywhere in the comment section though. Too bad :( I hope they’ll fix it because the app (Thunder) seems nice. Back to Liftoff…

Can confirm I just tested it.

We must not be on the same version then. In Memmy I can only swipe anywhere on the bottom menu bar to go back (and of course from the left edge of the screen like all apps).

Thanks for the tip. I’m on iOS. I didn’t know you could set swipe anywhere on the screen in Android to go back. That’s cool.