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Re: Sync for Lemmy

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Post by mgrandl »

rglullis wrote: post #51
corrigible wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Did you look into https://lemmit.online ?

I mean the posts are hardly what I visit Reddit for. The true value is in the comments. For posts I could simply use RSS instead.

Re: Sync for Lemmy

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Post by rglullis »

mgrandl wrote: post #71
rglullis wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you look into https://lemmit.online ?

I mean the posts are hardly what I visit Reddit for. The true value is in the comments. For posts I could simply use RSS instead.

Ok. Supposed I go on to write a service that lets you replicate a selection of your favorite subreddits on lemmy. Would you pay for it?

Re: Sync for Lemmy

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Post by atraac »

jadbox wrote: post #8

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

There's an app description, OP just linked to privacy page instead of actual page: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.syncapps.le...

> Sync for Lemmy is a full-featured app for browsing Lemmy on the go. Featuring secure login, comments, messaging, profiles and more.

> Sync for Lemmy highlights: • Material You design • A beautiful rich Material design user interface with loads of customizable options

Re: Sync for Lemmy

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Post by mdaniel »

d0gbread wrote: post #65
izzydata wrote: post #63

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Who said anything about not profiting? Of course people are free to choose to do bad things and there is nothing we can do to stop them. That doesn't mean they deserve praise or shouldn't be called out on it. It is shameful in my personal opinion which is why I am expressing it.

Hm, okay. I appreciate the dialog, just trying to understand the perspective and I think I do (still disagree, but that's okay). I thought maybe you'd go in the direction of laws or licenses being used to prohibit advertising in certain contexts, like downstream use of content, but what I'm hearing is that profiting off other's free content is fine, but in your opinion doing so with ads just isn't cool with you . Tha…

> As it stands, many balked at a one time cost of $20

For clarity, it's not a one time cost, it's a subscription cost, so $17 per year is what it shows inside my copy. I grant there is also a $99 "lifetime" option that is a one time payment, but my experience has been that "lifetime" means the lifetime of the business, not my lifetime

I don't meant to take any issue with the rest of the comments about needing to put food on their table, just that some folks in the syncforlemmy community itself even were complaining about the ongoing payment being harder to swallow that just paying for the app once like how most in-app purchases work for a situation like this

Re: Sync for Lemmy

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Post by d0gbread »

mdaniel wrote: post #74
d0gbread wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hm, okay. I appreciate the dialog, just trying to understand the perspective and I think I do (still disagree, but that's okay). I thought maybe you'd go in the direction of laws or licenses being used to prohibit advertising in certain contexts, like downstream use of content, but what I'm hearing is that profiting off other's free content is fine, but in your opinion doing so with ads just isn't cool with you . Tha…

> As it stands, many balked at a one time cost of $20 For clarity, it's not a one time cost, it's a subscription cost, so $17 per year is what it shows inside my copy. I grant there is also a $99 "lifetime" option that is a one time payment, but my experience has been that "lifetime" means the lifetime of the business, not my lifetime I don't meant to take any issue with the rest of the comments about needing to put…

There are two options: a one time cost to remove ads ($20), or Sync Ultra which is recurring.

Re: Sync for Lemmy

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Post by d0gbread »

BaseballPhysics wrote: post #64
d0gbread wrote: post #57

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I'm certainly not advocating for a single point of failure, but rather a monetized, competitive space that competes on user experience. More akin to music streaming than movie streaming. I think Usenet and forum numbers probably pale in comparison to Reddit type platforms. Centralization is easier for mass appeal

> but rather a monetized, competitive space that competes on user experience. More akin to music streaming than movie streaming I'll be honest, I don't know what this means, and comparing a service like Spotify to a social network like Lemmy doesn't make a ton of sense to me. > Centralization is easier for mass appeal Which is by definition a single point of failure. As for mass appeal, I'd argue the issue isn't cent…

I mean to refer to centralization as a spectrum so I don't intend to say centralization means one option.

What I mean by comparing music streaming to movie streaming is that for all intents and purposes you can feel like your Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, Apple, whatever music libraries are pretty comprehensive, whereas that is absolutely not the case with Netflix, Max, etc.

Re: Sync for Lemmy

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Post by squiffsquiff »

7ewis wrote: post #39
danielbln wrote: post #2

Sync has been my mobile Reddit driver for over a decade and when Reddit dialed its enshitification to eleven and banned third party clients I immediately jumped over to Lemmy, but the available clients weren't quite up to snuff. Good for how new they were (e.g. Voyager) but Sync is a very mature app. Having Sync for Lenny has been great so far, it feels like a lesser populated Reddit, for all intents and purposes, an…

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…

You realise that the subscriber count is typically showing only the subscribers from your own instance?
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