Oh no $20 to remove ads from an app that was made by one guy as his full time job. I'm proud to support anyone who works hard to make a more accessible, more enjoyable experience.
Oh no ads track you! My full time job is literally managing Google ads. We barely tracked you personally as it was. We could anonymously target generally the things you were interested in buying or what you've recently been looking at online.
And then Google crippled Google Analytics and it's a shell of what it once was, and your data is even more anonymous!
If I work for a lawnmower company I couldn't give a shit who you are or what you do online, all I care about is if you're thinking about buying a lawnmower, so my client can show you what he's got to offer. Then you can ignore the ads if you don't like the product or its price point. That's what Google does.
I'd rather that than be shown "Generic Chinese cashgrab mobile game ad that doesn't actually reflect the gameplay" ads.
The guy worked hard to make possibly the best UI/UX on the platform. Either pay for his work or let him get the (barely any) money from showing ads to pay for his time. Either way, he worked for it.
Do you work full time for free too?
Welcome buddy. Welcome all sync users. The greatest part of the decentriverse is it's not yours or mine, it's no one's. Do as you please.
I found out about Lemmy BECAUSE of Sync. I'm a huge FOSS supporter but that doesn't mean I'll trash anything that isn't open source.
Much more importantly, I'd really like to see Lemmy succeed against data mining trash like Reddit. Let's not dissuade potential converts coming over from Reddit with this gatekeeping nonsense. These manipulative parasitic social media companies are the real enemy here. Sync is one guy making one app with a one time purchase. Everyone is still welcome to use open source apps, the website or any other means of accessing the community. Sync is not your enemy.
Sync is what got me to really enjoy using Reddit. I'm proud to be a Sync user. lol .
I love FOSS but I too use Sync. Used it on Reddit for the better part of a decade and it's made Lemmy more accessible for me and also some friends.
In the end if people are happy to pay for a client, which then builds the membership of Lemmy communities - what's the big fucking deal? I'm very happy to be here and very happy to continue supporting a dev that does fantastic work.
People are ridiculous.
It's ok to like the things you like, as long as you're not like, directly hurting people.
If RiF made a LiF, I'd buy their ad free version too. I like the UI/UX. Connect is a good app, but it's just not quite the same.
Same boat, I like FOSS, using linux for 20+ years yada yada android custom ROM hack stuff what not, but 10 years ago I tested all the reddit app, Sync was far superior so I bought it for like 3$. Now Sync for Lemmy is an impressive experience compared to Jerboa or Connect for instance, so I forked the 20$ for the noads version. Dev looks like a great guy, I have no problem with this.
While the cost and ads are enough to keep me using the free options, everyone should just use whatever they want.
More Lemmy users = more content on Lemmy.
I don’t agree with your lifestyle choice but we are all friends here. Live and let live
I used to love Sync, but hear me out: Infinity is FOSS and it currently is much nicer and easier to use.
I'm grateful to the creator of Sync for bringing over the app to the Fediverse, and I'll never begrudge anyone for sticking with it or even paying an outrageous price to not have to see ads even though Lemmy has none to begin with. All I'm saying is, you just switched from Reddit to Lemmy, now's the perfect time to try something new.
It's weird how upset people are getting over memes about sync. It's a shame because the memes are pretty funny.
None of the FOSS advocates actually care that you use Sync unless they're going to your house and uninstalling it when your not looking.
And there's a lot of misconceptions about free software. Free Software is opposed to proprietary software, not paid software. All projects, whether free or proprietary require compensation of some kind, or else they wouldn't exist.
There is a legitimate debate around if proprietary software is ethical. The whole existence of the free software movement is because the proponents of it saw proprietary software as unethical.
Wait, is it looked down on for some reason? I've used sync for years, and am glad it's back.
Edit- nevermind, found another content explaining it.
I present you beautiful and FOSS infinity
https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy/releases
I am curious why you like about it. I was a Relay user, and it was the only one that was really good for me. I didn't care for sync, it seemed ok, but not quite good enough.
But after moving to Lemmy I went with Jerboa and Thunder. Both are good enough. What could sync possibly have that you pay for?
I know for relay I miss: auto mute. Everything is mute by default. Then slow and fastforward for all media, and a download button.
Shame shame shame (Kidding ofc)
Isn’t this exactly what people should want though? Both FOSS and commercial options?
If you don’t want to pay, there is an option for that.
If you want to pay and (in theory), get a better experience, there would be an option for that.
Google forces devs to use their billing platform and to not build a seperate "pro" app to ensure their dominance in the Android space
Devs begrudgingly listen to Google in order to keep their app on Android's dominant app repository
I literally cannot tell these two apart
Oh no, not Lemmy!
More like when they find out you paid for sync ultra
Because my dumbass had to look it up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software?wprov=sfla1
I like it so much I bought the ads free version, it's a great app
Sigh, any way to ban these useless shitposts
I don't have as nice of a ui as you op, but wanted to say I'm happy for you :)
So while I understand the love for FOSS and an Ad Free Experience, somebody still has to pay for the server time. Now I know this doesnt exactly work in THIS scenario with Sync, but couldnt ads and paid subs in Apps be a good way for Lemmy/KBin instances for be financed without having to rely on donations?
For Example, imagine if Lemmy.ml had their own app with their own experience and if you wanted to support it without actually handing over money, now you could use ads in the mobile experience and feel a little better about your lurking.
Just a thought.
