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Or Voyeger or any other opensource Lemmy client.
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I don’t understand the bitching about it, we users were asking for this, it is the good thing about Lemmy/Fediverse, you have tons of options, and probably will have more, heck even the PWA are awesome, no need to download anything at all.
You have to accept to being tracked by Google, having an advertising id, all the data Firebase collects. Their ToS is large.
Users were asking for it, that’s true. I guess users don’t really care about being tracked, allowing google into their phone and indirectly supporting them controlling the web, thus enabling them to do things like manifest v3 or the web integrity API.
Ads? understandable, the dev has bills to pay. Not open source? Purists may hate it, but not the end of the world. Tracking? Google? No thanks, the beautiful design is not worth it.
One time payment is there. Someone confirmed that there is no connection to Google after paying the one time payment.
I will admit I never knew any of this
Many of us were sync users who came over because of the api changes. Don’t care about tracking.
People like to bitch
Remind me of that meme where the person is complaining about the thing, gets the thing and then has the frowny face.
I say this as someone who is probably one of the biggest supporters of software-freedom around here, but bullying or shaming people for preferring non-free apps does nothing but incite resentment towards the movement. I value the four freedoms because I think I deserve control of my computing, not because I think it’s my place to dictate what others should value.
I just leave you with my favorite quote of Ljdawson, made during the reddit api war:
“I don’t know. I don’t track shit.”
He has crashlytics. That’s about it.
Tbh, I don’t care for open or closed source, I don’t even care for free or payed. (19 bucks per year… That’s like what, a coffee and a donut at a Starbuck?)
Stuff must just work and to be honest… All available clients all work sort of.
This one does this good but sucks at multi instances. That one screws up gifs from that and this site. Made an error typing your user name!/password during setup? Tough shit. You can’t edit it so redo from start, remove it and type well this time.
Sync just seems to work.
That’s not to shit on anyone hard work: I can’t do it, I can’t make them, I’m glad these clients exist. I don’t expect free tools to be perfect.
But I’m also superglad Sync for lemmy is a thing. And I will pay for it when it’s out of beta.
Sync just seems to work.
And that is why I’ve used it for all these years. There are no weird quirks, it just does exactly what I need it to do.
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This was fixed in the latest update.
I think they meant the old Sync. This one is in beta and bugs are still expected.
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I’m not sure what I’m looking at in your screenshot. Everything looks fine and normal to me.
I am also willing to give the app the benefit of the doubt because it is still in beta and has been available for less than 24 hours so far.
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Had that one as well. Makes reading posts with many comments almost impossible. Let’s hope it gets fixed soon.
I noticed that, this happens when I set comment sort to Top. Works fine when set to Hot. Still in beta, they’ll hopefully fix it.
Thanks, that makes it a little more clear. Seems like that might be something more than comments out of order, though. At least as far as I could tell the hierarchy of post times appears correct, it’s just not showing everything.
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Sync not only works. It’s the smoothest App I have on my phone. The animations and transitions are just beautiful, well timed and do not stutter even a tiny bit. I wish all android apps were like Sync. I’ll gladly pay whatever he charges.
Sync just seems to work.
Didn’t I read the current version does not allow you to post? I feel its pretty weird to release an app in that state and still keep ads in it.
But if you are happy paying and using that, more power to you! Meanwhile I save that money and use one of the many open source clients that actually work.
I’m posting from it right now. The ads don’t seem to work through. I’m not blocking any but I’ve not seen one yet.
That sounds better then, thanks for clearing that up.
You do you, but for me personally, the only honest software in existence is software willing to disclose it’s source code.
Sync is fantastic, and I’ve used it for years. But I’ll be sticking with Thunder. Its UI is close, and I’m able to contribute the things I want to change.
Yeah I assumed the ad tracking was mostly Google’s own doing, or whatever ad provider that hes using for injected ads.
Sync is fucking fantastic, just how I remember. I don’t mind at all paying for a great app by a talented dev.
The pro version is supposed to be out later, and will just be a one-time payment unlike ultra’s subscription
Its not about the money but about the software freedom and source transparency
The lifetime purchase to remove ads is up. It’s a bit pricey but I can understand why, Lemmy has a smaller userbase. Totally worth it.
I wonder if it was because of the backlash from being subscription only? I was surprised by how many angry posts there were. I gotta admit even I was disappointed. I don’t mind paying for a pro version. But a subscriptions a bit of an ask, as I don’t need the features offered by it, but I do like sync and Lawrence is a good guy.
No ads for 20 bucks isn’t bad as an alternative if you don’t need the features
Yeah, he didnt have that option when I first installed it. Went ahead and grabbed that.
Are you talking about sync ultra or is there another ad free purchase? Ultra life time costs 120 usd, which is too much for me
Yeah if you just click ‘remove ads’ on the sidebar it’s $20 for lifetime I believe
They are talking about the remove ads option. It’s a one time purchase just to remove ads with none of the additional features of the subscription. As I understand it.
There’s the remove ads option, which is not a subscription to anything. It’s $20.
Same, I’m paying for the ultra subscription. But I understand if someone is using another app, Connect is pretty good. I’m just an old dog
It’s available as an IAP for $19.99 now
Same here. The latest update has the “remove ads” option added for a one time 12.99 fee.
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15€ here.
Wtf why does mine say €21.99???
About 20 EUR for me.
There are just as good apps that do not track for shit.
Plus not accounting for a previous purchase is a final nail in the coffin for me. Most likely impossible to implement, but still stings.
$34 dollarydoos here 🦘
Are you sure that’s not the lifetime for ultra? There’s a new one time “remove ads” option.
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Yes I’m sure. Ultra is only available annually or monthly. Annually it’s $28 here
Edit: I stand corrected. Just got the new update with ultra lifetime as an option. That’s $170 though.
It’s $99 USD, think you all are seeing a bug.
Edit: I misunderstood which option was being discussed.
Wow. I hope that’s some sort of mistake.
Same here in France 21.99€
€22.99 here 🙃
It feels so random.
Wrong country?
Not seeing it, I just see an Ultra subscription, where is the one time no ad option?
I just found it, scroll to the top and click the Lemmy logo top left, under account switcher and above sync ultra
Make sure you update the app. It just showed up for me about an hour ago.
20 bucks here
Imagine Apollo for Lemmy 😮💨
i’m using memmy (iOs) ! works very good, and it feels nostalgic since they tried their best to… be inspired by apollo 😄
I love Memmy for Lemmy!
They have added the blue jump button. It makes it hard to upvote comments at the bottom, but love that it is there.
You can hide it in settings—>appearance
You can hide the button, but my favourite way to upvote comments/posts is by swiping a bit to the right!
And if you deep-swipe to the right it will downvote.
My gf installed that one yesterday, but I think it does not have an option to mark as read posts while you scroll, hide read posts?
I couldn’t even see if the read posts were dimmed.
It does in TestFlight. In fact, it has several options for marking read and works great.
Wait, so the App store version is just a dumbed one version?
No, it’s just behind the dev builds. Lots of new features have been delivered lately and will be pushed to the App Store soon.
Good to know, thanks.
All “hide read posts” options are here!
In Settings -> Content -> Hide Read Posts .
edit: to clarify, i have the 0.5 version. i’ll update to 0.5.1 now.
That’s Voyager.
That’s Voyager.
Great… Now I get to look forward to a trip back from the delta quadrant.
Which is also coming for Android!
i’d love a native version since brave keeps resetting voyager every 2 or 3 days
Just keep waiting mate!
💪
Yeah no, Apollo was native, Vogager isn’t
Native already incoming and PWA works awesome.
except it’s not, because Voyager is React and comes with all the baggage that using React brings.
Native clients all the way.
Works great as PWA, and Voyager is already coming native.
Hopefully the dev changes his mind about not creating an app for lemmy
Yeah, it’s called Voyager, and it doesn’t even have the Pixel Pals or pop-ups that ruined Apollo!
Have you heard of wefwef? It’s basically Apollo for Lemmy.
Link to a Reddit post about it, quickest I could find in short order at work:
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14lr2n4/wefwef_is_an_apollo_like_web_app_for_lemmy/
Seriously good by any measure, and fantastic for a webapp. Smoother and more native-feeling than a lot of actual native apps.
Yes and big fan as well even hosted it on my instance
good job on having india’s first general instance (ig?)
It’s called Voyager now.
Thanks, I didn’t realize that. My icon still says wefwef.
For the PWA you’ll have to remove and re-add it to get the updated name and icon, if you want them. Not required by any means though
Thanks that worked!, I feel like I preferred the old icon though :/ I’ll get used to the new one I guess.
Is it? I got it before it was on App Store, so it still says wefwef. Should I go get Voyager because one day updates won’t transfer over? Or am I good, and super duper cool cus I got OG Voyager?
Fun fact, me and Clarkson are both from Donny:
Nice, I have family in Nottinghamshire.
Also, is your .ml or .world your main instance? The .world seems to have the biggest audience
.world is
I drove through it once, looked rough as shit.
I used sync for reddit for years, I had no ads in the free version and the pro version. I’ve tried a half dozen apps for Lemmy since my Reddexit. Sync for Lemmy is far and away the best. I really missed its design. I was happy to toss $20 to you for no ads on Sync for Lemmy. Thanks for all the hard work.
Are people not using Memmy?
I can’t keep up with all the apps anymore.
Mommy is iOS exclusive
Not my mommy, she’s on Android But yeah, that is an iPhone exclusive app
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Of course she is. Why would mommy ever raise a worthless android peon?
Yeah, this shit is getting old really quickly.
What client I use doesn’t affect your experience. I and lots of others are reddit refugees and I used sync for years. I’m ecstatic to have the interface back.
Bullshit gatekeeping and bickering over ideological purity doesn’t help anyone. At the end of the day, lemmy is confusing for someone accustomed to reddit. There is a learning curve. Most of us just want to exchange info and converse. I don’t give a fuck to learn about FOSS and all that other bullshit any more than any of you want to learn the specialized minutiae I have to sift through at my day job.
Shut the fuck up already. This sort of discourse lands like a bunch of shitty kids meeting at a half empty bar all criticizing how one another got there
Is Infinity fully compatible with foldables and tablets? Sync even has tabs for open posts (like a browser) when it’s opened in tablet mode
Yeah, tried sync since that was my reddit app of choice but the ads and tracking just forced me to uninstall it. Trying thunder now and it seems pretty good
Sync’s ads can be turned off by paying a small fee.
There’s no tracking in Sync
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Oh, my bad. I just saw this on the play store and figured it did.
Thunder! I run the ipa sideloaded. Gets weekly or so updates, very active development.
Thunder keeps crashing for me. I switched to Connect today. We’ll see how it goes.
Just waiting for inbox support to be released to use it as my daily (already implemented, just needs an apk built).
Yes me too, also I feel infinity is bit slow to display all the posts, hopefully fill be fixed soon
It will. There has been a commit with a more experimental loading system, but apparently it isn’t completely ready yet and breaks images.
Infinity was my fav for Reddit, def would love to try a Lemmy alternative
Thanks! I’ll prob wait till a non-early access version releases, pretty happy with Voyager for now
Apologies in advance for the dumb question, but it’s not yet ready for download right? Or am I missing something?
Go to releases. This is in the bar where you also find the issues
Or use Obtainium to automatically install and update it.
Edit: Updates the link
Oh my God, thank you so much!! Responding on Infinity now.
I’m github illiterate but I loved Infinity so this is huge for me!
Just realized it’s not even github so I may be illiterate in more ways than I thought.
Ok now I see the reason for the post, why I didn’t see this before?
The only one thing that I missed from reddit was Infinity, now I feel complete.
Interesting. I haven’t come across any ads yet.
Do you have adguard or pihole or another DNS blocker? If so, I don’t think you’ll see ads. At least not yet.
Nope, nothing like that.
I see an empty card for ads, I thought my adblockers blocked the actual content of the ads.
I see that too but it’s still empty without any ad blockers, at least for now.
Edit: the ads are there now lol
I’m using Connect, Sync and Infinity. Sync is the most polished but Connect is very close. Connect let’s you post as well as reply whereas Sync and Infinity only let you reply.
