• Redredme@lemmy.world
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    I just leave you with my favorite quote of Ljdawson, made during the reddit api war:

    “I don’t know. I don’t track shit.”

    He has crashlytics. That’s about it.

    Tbh, I don’t care for open or closed source, I don’t even care for free or payed. (19 bucks per year… That’s like what, a coffee and a donut at a Starbuck?)

    Stuff must just work and to be honest… All available clients all work sort of.

    This one does this good but sucks at multi instances. That one screws up gifs from that and this site. Made an error typing your user name!/password during setup? Tough shit. You can’t edit it so redo from start, remove it and type well this time.

    Sync just seems to work.

    That’s not to shit on anyone hard work: I can’t do it, I can’t make them, I’m glad these clients exist. I don’t expect free tools to be perfect.

    But I’m also superglad Sync for lemmy is a thing. And I will pay for it when it’s out of beta.

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      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.

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      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.

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        There are no weird quirks

        There are definitely weird quirks, I’ve only had it installed for 10 minutes and have already found this one when comments are sorted by top.

        https://i.imgur.com/dqMJS2a.png

        It appears if a reply is voted higher than it’s parent comment then it will appear above it instead of under it. Quite annoying. Hopefully it gets worked out soon.

        Sync has by far the highest customization which I love, and will happily pay the $20 for the ad-free version when the kinks are worked out. Although, Jerboa is a close second, and if they put in a default comment sorting option, I might just stick with it as it’s FOSS.

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          I’m not sure what I’m looking at in your screenshot. Everything looks fine and normal to me.

          I am also willing to give the app the benefit of the doubt because it is still in beta and has been available for less than 24 hours so far.

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              I noticed that, this happens when I set comment sort to Top. Works fine when set to Hot. Still in beta, they’ll hopefully fix it.

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              Thanks, that makes it a little more clear. Seems like that might be something more than comments out of order, though. At least as far as I could tell the hierarchy of post times appears correct, it’s just not showing everything.

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                It’s putting child comments that have higher upvotes above the parent comments. So it seems to be sorting strictly by upvote without taking into account hierarchy. A child comment shouldn’t appear above the parent comment like it is doing.

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              Had that one as well. Makes reading posts with many comments almost impossible. Let’s hope it gets fixed soon.

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

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      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.

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        I’m posting from it right now. The ads don’t seem to work through. I’m not blocking any but I’ve not seen one yet.

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      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.

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

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    Sync is fucking fantastic, just how I remember. I don’t mind at all paying for a great app by a talented dev.

    The pro version is supposed to be out later, and will just be a one-time payment unlike ultra’s subscription

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    I say this as someone who is probably one of the biggest supporters of software-freedom around here, but bullying or shaming people for preferring non-free apps does nothing but incite resentment towards the movement. I value the four freedoms because I think I deserve control of my computing, not because I think it’s my place to dictate what others should value.

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    I don’t understand the bitching about it, we users were asking for this, it is the good thing about Lemmy/Fediverse, you have tons of options, and probably will have more, heck even the PWA are awesome, no need to download anything at all.

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

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      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.

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    Sync is a perfectly fine app for me. I tried all other apps and nowhere near to sync. I don’t even have ads on the free version as I am using dns ad blocker. The moment one time payment for removing ads is out(it is coming), I will buy it. Or I will donate to dev in some other way as I am not a fan of subscriptions.

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    Yeah, this shit is getting old really quickly.

    What client I use doesn’t affect your experience. I and lots of others are reddit refugees and I used sync for years. I’m ecstatic to have the interface back.

    Bullshit gatekeeping and bickering over ideological purity doesn’t help anyone. At the end of the day, lemmy is confusing for someone accustomed to reddit. There is a learning curve. Most of us just want to exchange info and converse. I don’t give a fuck to learn about FOSS and all that other bullshit any more than any of you want to learn the specialized minutiae I have to sift through at my day job.

    Shut the fuck up already. This sort of discourse lands like a bunch of shitty kids meeting at a half empty bar all criticizing how one another got there

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

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      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.

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        I mean. If we’re going to ride that analogy it sounds like sync is an automatic transmission while FOSS is manual.

        I just want to get where I want to go. Who cares how it happens? It’s not like sync is imessage and fucks things up for other users

        My past was a reaction to a LOT of vitriolic anti-sync posts and comments. They’re all over and they’re baffling

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          It’s just a FOSS argument vs a closed source argument. It happens with everything. Look at Linux and Windows. Android and Apple. I agree that it can be annoying, and I don’t partake myself, but it’s not really that big of a deal as long as nobody is being personally attacked. This kind of discussion won’t really be detrimental to this platform.

          Manual versus automatic is a pretty good way to put it. I like your analogy. It’s just a dumb argument for about how people want their personal things to work.

          I can completely understand the annoyance with how many posts have been made about it. I am a developer who has contributed to FOSS projects, so I hear arguments like this all of the time amongst peers. I could personally care less just like you. I use little bits of both depending on my use case.

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    I just installed Sync after browsing with Jerboa for the past month. Sync has such a clean, smooth look that if it functions even remotely consistently it’ll be my new replacement.

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    5-6 different open source and ad free options, with no trackers whatsoever, and some of y’all are fawning over…you know what? To each their own. At least y’all are here and not on reddit 😁

    Edit: I was wrong, there’s around 20 options (including Sync) for Lemmy apps that are either already out or in development. Enjoy the buffet.

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    Y’all gotta stop shitting on non-FOSS Lemmy apps.

    Lemmy is Lemmy, let people access the platform how they want to. It doesn’t affect you. Don’t use Sync if you don’t want to.

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    How about instead we respect everyone’s decisions and preferences? Free as in freedom, is that not what the Open Source community is about?

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

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      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.

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      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.

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    I have always preferred Infinity when I was using Reddit. But right now Infinity for Lemmy seems to be not in a usable state. I have been using Thunder For Lemmy as of recently, not sure if I will switch from it to Infinity for Lemmy once its in a more usable state.

    Edit: I can’t even use Sync for Lemmy as on the Play Store it says its unavailable on my device. I have a Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra. One would think that it would be available considering its pretty much this years flagship of the largest Android brand.

    Edit 2: It seems to not be because of the device itself @[email protected] seems to have been able to download it on their s23 Ultra.

    Edit 3: It was because of Age Verification. I can now download it fine.

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    Why can’t I just use the service that has a design I like?

    I wouldn’t have used reddit if it wasn’t for sync and that same logic applies to lemmy. Adoption is critical for lemmy to succeed so please tone it down a bit, unless having the same 2 dozen people in your community was your personal appealing feature of lemmy.

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      You can

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