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Re: Sync for Lemmy

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What does "Sync for Lemmy" do exactly.. there's no app description.

Also, the reason that people are excited about it is because they really liked Sync for Reddit, and have been anxiously awaiting the Lemmy version that was promised.

Re: Sync for Lemmy

#43

I'm going to have to give this one a huge thumbs down. Injecting ads into a free and open source webapp that previously did not have any just to get people to buy your ad free version is the kind of thing Lemmy is trying to get away from. This is quite unacceptable in my opinion. If the developer removes the ad-ridden version and only makes a single purchase paid version then it would be acceptable as you would be bu…

so you're saying app developers should create apps for free, out of the goodness of their heart while they live in a van because they work for free?

I didn't say any such thing. I said they should sell the software rather than put in ads and then get people to pay to remove them.

Re: Sync for Lemmy

#44

I'm going to have to give this one a huge thumbs down. Injecting ads into a free and open source webapp that previously did not have any just to get people to buy your ad free version is the kind of thing Lemmy is trying to get away from. This is quite unacceptable in my opinion. If the developer removes the ad-ridden version and only makes a single purchase paid version then it would be acceptable as you would be bu…

What are you on about? Sync is a native app that uses the Lemmy API, not some webapp wrapper. And the original version also features ads unless you bought the pro version.

No other Lemmy UI whether it be a webapp or mobile app has ads. This is exclusive to Sync.

Re: Sync for Lemmy

#47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so you're saying app developers should create apps for free, out of the goodness of their heart while they live in a van because they work for free?

I didn't say any such thing. I said they should sell the software rather than put in ads and then get people to pay to remove them.

I actually agree with you on this (having ads in a community full of supporters of open source and anti-capitalism is a bad idea), but I think the dev has already run the number and decides going with ad-supported model and $20 permanent ad-removal IAP is the only way to make enough profit to sustain full-time development given (currently) low number of lemmy users right now (100,000 active users is too small market to profitably sell $3 apps). I subscribed to sync ultra to support the dev, and hopefully if the dev is able to sustain himself from subscriptions, he might be more open to removing ads in the free version later.

Re: Sync for Lemmy

#48
post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've tried moving to Lemmy, but as you've said it's less populated, significantly less from what I've seen. Almost to its detriment. What makes Reddit great is the niche smaller communities and the historical data they have (despite the search being awful). Lemmy sadly doesn't have this, small and even some big communities aren't there - wallstreetbets for example. Even subs with 100k+ users have low hundreds of memb…

Well, speaking from experience... most people are waiting for a client that doesn't suck before moving away from reddit.

I've jumped completely over to lemmy and am mulling writing a bot to replicate external content to my instance (from e.g., unmigrated subreddits);

the UX is fantastic though, tons of original content with almost zero spam. scaling the network seems hard as every event is a POST request (lol) but the community will persevere and overcome this imo

Re: Sync for Lemmy

#49

Thunder [1] is also worth checking out. IMO its UI is even slicker than Sync's, plus it's open source and not ad-supported/freemium. If you ever used Relay for Reddit, you'll feel right at home. [1] https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder

Thanks for the heads up, i grabbed it from F-droid. Really nice app, much better than the other open source ones I have tried!

Re: Sync for Lemmy

#50

Thunder [1] is also worth checking out. IMO its UI is even slicker than Sync's, plus it's open source and not ad-supported/freemium. If you ever used Relay for Reddit, you'll feel right at home. [1] https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder

Seconded Thunder. Sync will be my home but Thunder has been my hold over and has been very, very good.
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