As an OG Reddit Sync user of over 10 years, all this arguing really brings a tear to my eye. 🥲

As a software engineer I find it miraculous the amount of people that whine about somebody wanting to get paid for putting weeks, months, and years of their life into a product 100s of thousands of people CHOOSE to use.

Can't we just be happy that we're not on Reddit instead of fighting over which UI we prefer!?

My reply to all the naysayers:

Thanks for making Lemmy feel like home, it wouldn't without you!

The reality is it's a free world, regardless of what morality you put on things there are going to be things that happen that you don't like. That's life.

Like it or not Lemmy has had explosive growth because of apps like Sync. Because of them being killed off by Reddit. If it weren't for the drama of Reddit doing that, I and millions of other users wouldn't be here right now as we'd still be on Reddit.

Even people who weren't using the 3rd party apps left Reddit because Reddit's actions left a bad taste in their mouths.

So, morality of one guy charging for his honest work in creating the paid or ad supported app aside, you should be thanking the apps including sync for helping drive so many users to Lemmy.

If you yourself don't want to use a paid app, then that's okay! We're all allowed to respond or react to things how we want, but being incredibly divisive for something that a lot of people wanted and that really is inconsequential is almost universally frowned on.

Just let people do what they want and don't shoot them down for it. More options for browsing Lemmy = more Lemmings = more content.

Much love my dudes! We may disagree on this but we agree on many many many more things I'm sure, just because we're on Lemmy instead of Reddit in the first place is proof of that! ✌️

People care too much about which app you use. At the end of the day, as long as you're happy with sync it shouldn't matter

Honestly I'm using, and especially posting on, Lemmy much more often now that I have sync back.

I had been using Sync for Reddit for so many years that it became muscle memory. Now I have it back and things just feel right.

Jeroba on mobile, web app inside of firefox with adblockers on desktop.

Well Im trying out sync and it's honestly such a good and polished app. A big Kudos to the dev. Would probably buy the premium if the pricing goes down.

Yeah I feel the same. Used sync for Reddit for YEARS too. I've been using Lemmy way more since Sync launched. I'm happy with it 🤷.

$20 to support a solo dev AND remove ads from his awesome lemmy client? Sweet!

Personally, I don't give a flying fuck what client any of you use as long as you are here. :)

It does seem like a large number of Lemmy users are elitist snobs. I thought this place was turning out better than Reddit, but it's looking like I was wrong. People like that ruin platforms like this and sour the experience.

Surely we can agree it's better to have too many choices rather than having some greedy piggy ban them all.

One thing I didn't like from Reddit, the elitism and gatekeeping posts from its users. OP, I'm right there with you.

yeah i just dont care

Shouldn't an ethical human choose tools that do more good than harm? As long as an application does that, does it matter if it's open source or not? The software we use in our daily lives is a personal choice and people shouldn't be shamed for choosing a closed source application. Especially one created by an independent, craftsman software company. Sync, and other well-designed for-profit clients, benefit Lemmy, an open platform. That benefits all.

Let me add, many of us are social media refugees, fleeing exploitative and closed platforms like Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook. There is also nothing wrong with continually evaluating the closed source solutions we choose to prevent repeating past mistakes.

Gatekeepers are going to be the number 1 threat to lemmy growing

So far the only community I have blocked is the synch for lemmy community, because of the massive spam of posts about synch.

So can we please stop spamming about it in other communities too.

I'm just happy for anything that brings people to Lemmy

I used sync for years and no matter how many times I tried using other Reddit apps I always went back to using Sync. I was happy to see Sync reborn again as a lemmy client. Yes FOSS is nice but I have no problems supporting LJ even if sync isn't open sourced.

I'm home 😭😭

It's not SfR, but it was created in a panic by a dedicated author. It'll get better.

Not a sync user but cant wait for infinity for lemmy to be mature enough to appear on fdroid

https://i.imgur.com/mN4R4bx.jpg

I’m not an Android user, so I don’t know Sync, but it’s bound to be a better Lemmy app than those godawful cross platform ones. I’m glad it exists!

i use sync btw

Obligatory G'day from the kbin PWA :)

We're still waiting for our native app.

home sweet home

I didn't use Sync with reddit but since it's the best one for Lemmy... Here I am! On Sync! Enjoying it!

I'm so home it's crazy..

It truly is a beautiful sight

I haven’t looked into what Sync is but it sounds like it’s more than just Reddit Lemmy?

Also a paid app?

If it’s a paid app then that makes me think quality to be honest. It’s probably misguided, but my default is to feel that if you need to pay up front for an app it’s going to be higher quality and not full of ads/microtransactions.

I feel nearly alone in preferring connect. It's still a bit glitchy but definitely very usable and above all: clean. I feel like the other apps all have a bunch of texts sizes and visuals I don't need. Connect just feels like a cleaned up reddit UI to me. If boost ever comes out I may switch to it, but I've already been feeling like connect is what the UI "should" look like. Others feel oddly busy to me

After reading through comments. This a hot topic

What's the difference between Sync and the other apps for Lemmy?

Same here it's just good to be back using sync.

Honestly, just use whatever works for you, I think it's a good idea to have a discussion about the amount so a few more people who pay for the client maybe also donate a little towards their home instance but I don't care about Sync anymore and I am sick of it! Can we please get some kind of word filters to block stuff?

Ironically, it is not available on iPhone lol

I just feel like I'm back on kuro5hin

I miss the pro version I had without ads... I'll probably end up jumping ship if that isn't an option.

:')

I'm absolutely thrilled to have sync on the Fediverse, and will happily pay for a yearly subscription to help ensure LJD has sufficient compensation to keep the app up-to-date with whatever changes come to the Android/Lemmy APIs years down the road.

The problem with (even excellent) free apps for platforms like this, is they require consistent maintenance to keep up with both the platform they run on (Android), and the platform they serve content for (Lemmy). That is not a trivial amount of work, and is absolutely deserving of continued, recurring compensation IMO.

A one-time payment might make sense for a simple native game that gets produced once, has no web component, and never needs another update for its entire lifetime, but not for this. You aren't paying for a singular product, you're paying for a service. You wouldn't go to the barber and winged about needing to pay every time I get my hair cut.

Can yall stop posting about this proprietary shitware app

this comment was posted from Jerboa, the app where you don't have to pay 20$ for the privilege of not seeing ads and not being tracked

What is the different between sync and every other app?

I believe strongly in using free and open source software whenever possible, but I've got to say that I'm glad to have Sync here on the fediverse all in all. I think it grants legitimacy to the platform and gives users a familiar interface to switch easily