There is also Boost for Lemmy https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayay...
Have been using Boost for reddit for years, still using it with ReVanced patch.
Sync for Lemmy
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Re: Sync for Lemmy
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you look into https://lemmit.online ?
I would encourage you to post that as a separate submission, since I have so many questions ( https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lemmit.online shows nothing)
Re: Sync for Lemmy
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Simple. You get rid of the free with ads version and then sell the software for whatever amount of money. Or if there has to be a free version it wouldn't have ads. It would just not have the pro features which you would have to pay for. Ads are not a necessary business model.
I understand that is an option, but the way you say he's profiting off free content made it sound like it should be someone's choice other than the developers to dictate how he should or shouldn't monetize. But given your response now I'm thinking you mean you just wouldn't pick it. The fact many people would, that Lemmy isn't affected one way or another, etc, makes it seem more like preference than morals or somethi…
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.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would claim the early web diminished primarily because the users left, not because the services died off and left users stranded (though I'll note that a lot of early services--IRC, Usenet, message boards, blogs, etc, are still around, though reduced in size and scope). As for services dying, I picked Google because it was easy. But the graveyard is endless: Myspace, Friendster, and Geocities all spring to mind, ju…
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 centralization, it's network effects. I.e. I'll use the service people I'm interested in use. If you have a lot of fragmented communities, that becomes a problem, and thus Reddit dominates. And it's the problem federation is specifically intended to solve, by stitching those individual communities into a larger network.
Re: Sync for Lemmy
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I understand that is an option, but the way you say he's profiting off free content made it sound like it should be someone's choice other than the developers to dictate how he should or shouldn't monetize. But given your response now I'm thinking you mean you just wouldn't pick it. The fact many people would, that Lemmy isn't affected one way or another, etc, makes it seem more like preference than morals or somethi…
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. That's reasonable, I just thought maybe your desired solution was more systemic.
Ultimately he's trying to cover his own salary. Would be interesting to know what that salary is, and what the price point would have to be to eliminate the ad revenue completely. As it stands, many balked at a one time cost of $20.
Re: Sync for Lemmy
#66It's great to see so many apps for Lemmy. RedReader for Lemmy would be neat.
Re: Sync for Lemmy
#67Link to the app listing (op’s link goes to the data safety info): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.syncapps.le...
Strangely, clicking OP (the data safety link) on my Pixel opens the Oxford English Dictionary app.
Re: Sync for Lemmy
#68Anyone know if Sync has (or plans to have) an iOS version? Also boy that word is difficult to search for.
I'd like to see Apollo for Lemmy
I've been using Memmy[1,2], which is similar to Apollo.
1: https://github.com/Memmy-App/memmy
2: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/memmy-for-lemmy/id6450204299
Re: Sync for Lemmy
#69There’s also ‘wefwef’ which is a SPA that’s highly based on the look and feel of Apollo for Reddit on iOS - https://wefwef.app/ I think they did a pretty good job with making it feel like an app, rather than a web page. If you add it to your Home Screen on iOS it’s imperceptible to an app and fixes safari lagging when you swipe back a page.
I believe it's called Voyager these days. https://vger.app
They also just released their app in both Apple's and Android's app store.