What gives DENTISTS feelings of power? Shaming non FLOSS users.
That was one well-executed dad-joke.
Fight those asswigs back
I never thought I’d be in an environment where FOSS user is the majority demographic.
I feel like I’m hanging out in a crypto community where Bitcoin maximalists are the majority… I hate it.
Join us, you know in your heart that you want to 😈
I ended up getting banned from /r/Bitcoin, I might end up getting banned from /c/linuxmemes
Wait you weren’t joking? What do you mean you’ve been seeing bitcoin maximalists?
No, I’m saying the FOSS maximalists act exactly the same as Bitcoin maximalists and that kind of closed mindedness is just bad for whatever these people like (open source software and crypto in their cases) as it just pushes people away.
You wouldn’t convince people to try a hobby you like by sending the weirdo that insults anyone that doesn’t like that hobby to talk to them… Well the weirdos have a platform now and they’re loud as fuck and they’re part of the group that’s in majority so they get tolerated!
Heck, I was just arguing with one that called those who use closed source software “closed source cucks”…
Use Linux too but know exactly what you mean. This kind of people are fucking annoying and drive other people away
I remember being like that as a teen. Unfortunately, Linux has had an air of elitism around it for a long time, possibly since its inception.
That’s a badge of honor, I bet you did something right.
Yes, arguing too successfully against them 🙃
thats a perfect description. even the linux subreddit wasn’t this rabid about Foss
And now they’re stuck on the ever-worsening platform while it gets better every day here
Jerboa user here,
Stop infecting other communities with this trash argument. Sync dev can do what he wants, sync dev should donate some money to Lemmy dev. If you don’t think he should then you shouldn’t donate to sync dev.
Thanks!
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But the devs if Lemmy (and theirfor also Jerboa) are communists
The two main devs are, but a lot of the contributors aren’t
Boy do I have good news about my cat because it’s her birthday 🎂🎈
Finally some good news
I’m using Sync for lemmy
edit: I tried it these days and I don’t like it, I’m switching back to the webapp
The amount of shilling Sync receives makes me worry that something is up with it. It’s not normal that I even believe some bots and sock puppets are involved. I’m not touching it with a long stick until someone does some proper security analysis on it. I’m not dumb to fall for peer pressure. Good luck, guys!
Nah man, it’s just good.
(I don’t use it btw)
I’m not touching it with a long stick until someone does some proper security analysis on it
How would that happen? It’s proprietary software, we don’t have access to the source code. And that’s the whole point. We can’t verify what it does and we can’t modify it.
The alternative is Free/Libre Software. That’s what Lemmy is, Jerboa and many others. Their authors publish the source code and let their users study it, modify it and distribute it. Because they are not trying to hide anything from us. That’s the ethical way to make software.
Security analysis doesn’t require the source code. TikTok was repeatedly analyzed without it being open source.
Perhaps you are right, but it’s way more difficult, takes a lot of time and requires a different set of skills. If there is spyware in it, it would be illegal to remove it and distribute a patch for other users. So even if you find something, there is not much you can do about it.
It’s not very practical to add spyware into Libre Software though, because it wouldn’t be hard to find and it would be very easy for users to remove it.
FOSS for Lemmy
It’s just very popular - I used it for reddit. It had a lot of installs on play and was recommended often on reddit.
It’s just good. I used it for years, and even bought the Pro version of the reddit app. The main feature for me is the performance. I don’t have a high end phone and Sync are the only one with a consistent scrolling performance (no dropped frames).
Same.
Tried sync and seems pretty good so far. In the absence of RIF.
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Any hope Baconreader will develop a Lemmy app?
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Your comment triggered the lurking FOSS fanboys lmao. Some of y’all really need to touch grass.
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I like Free Open Socialist Software
Go back to lemmingrad /s
Huh. Not sure what it is about this beard style and superiority but this Pic and this discussion remind me of https://xkcd.com/743
Occasionally people are just smug and superior because they are right.
I mean, in fairness, the open standard Office Open XML format did win out.
But that also went public in 2006. Open Office XML, the not-so-confusingly named alternative, is practically extinct.
open source violin lol
No problem with proprietary alternatives at all, it just feels contradictory to use such thing in a FOSS environment
Eh, it’s all just personal choice (until someone starts scraping Lemmy for LLM or otherwise mining for data).
- sent from Firefox on Windows on VMware on Linux
Hate to break it to you but that’s likely already happening. Everything here is 100% public and pretty easily accessible.
I actually think it’s the best combination, as long as the protocol is open
Jerboa is buggy I’m using Thunder
Love Thunder but Sync has been looking so damn sexy like damn girl
No mark as read posts while you scroll and hide read post FAB icon/toggle for both sadly, a feature that I use a lot.
Jerboa had both in its latest alpha release on github, you should check it out.
I know it supports hide read posts as a button within their menus, but are you sure about marking as read while you scroll?
Yup, tried and tested on the most recent alpha. I can confirm it works.
I use both to this day, they’re both buggy, but getting better.
Honestly, it’s improved a ton, I haven’t run into any bugs the last few weeks
The only bugs I really encounter are the occasional crash when expanding comments on random oddly specific threads.
I’m actually kind of excited to see where all of these apps will be in another year or so. There’s so much potential!
Yeah, I’m glad there’s a bunch of options! I know I have some oddly specific preferences and I’m sure others do too, so hopefully there’s something that’ll mostly acomodate everyone.
I’ve read it tracks users
source?
It was somewhere in this thread, I think
I think they are talking about sync here.
I vividly remember one post mentioning thunder, but it could have been another thread
You sure you’re not thinking of Connect? Thunder is open source.
Sharing the Good News about our lord and savior, RMS
I was about to suggest we needed our own r/StallmanWasRight, but that’s still all of Lemmy anyways.
What be RMS
#SyncMasterRace
That’ll be $3 for mentioning Sync. Please remit within 14 days.
That’ll be $3 for mentioning Sync. Please remit within 14 days.
EDIT: Dangit I mentioned the name too
But have you tried Jerboa…
on weed?
one true try
Yeah, still liked Connect better
Connect is great but I can’t get over how ugly I think the icon is, so I’ve been using Liftoff instead. Turns out I’m shallow when it comes to tech!
Can I ask, what the heck is FOSS?
Free Open Source Software
Ahhhh, all these posts make so much more sense. Lol
Fantasticly orgasmic stray software
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Do you have a moment to speak about our Lord and savior, Richard Stallman?
Wait, is he still alive?
He lives off of toe fungus
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Don’t you dare interject for a moment
I’ve been using liftoff to pretty good results
No one’s saying FOSS is bad but Sync is clearly way more polished than any FOSS app.
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I used sync as well as jerboa - and I think there is a difference, mainly because sync had the benefit of having a parent app that worked for near to a decade, for reddit. Many of the backend elements for reddit is similar to lemmy I suppose, and sync has already been under development for close to a decade, so it’s only expected the app experience has also been fine tuned.
But I still like jerboa simply because it’s open source and funded by donations, and because there is not even the ghost of a tracker anywhere near it. I’ll keep supporting it so that the Devs keep working on it, and so that it has the opportunity to grow into a fine tuned UX too.
Did you check Sync’s customization settings? It has a lot more options than any other app I’ve used before. It has multiple views, it’s own hot sorting method, you can fully configure how comments are displayed, customisable themes, link previews,… Should I continue? Sure the ads are a bit annoying but the devs really deserve it for all their hard work.
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Well nobody needs lemmy in the first place. But what I’m saying is that Sync is in fact more polished and has more features than any FOSS app, and therefore it is only fair that it’s not FOSS.
Update: I just installed Sync, and wow it’s good. There’s so many customization options. I miss the color coded comment indents though.
That option exists boo Settings shortcut: Comments > Show colorful comment indents
Oh heck yeah it does! That’s cool
