I did a poll and nearly 30% of the people who voted said they used Sync! It’s stayed around that percent the whole time too!
EDIT: Here is the poll I forgot to put this here like five times lol https://strawpoll.com/wby5A21R1yA
After reading this I decided to try it out. Within 5 posts there were ads. No thanks, I’ll stick with Connect.
Edit: I was scrolling everything and replied. I didn’t see this was in the official community. My opinion doesn’t matter in here. I think it’s great that sync is successful and I hope it continues. So yea, keep on keeping on.
It’s a single developer that should be paid for his work. You can easily upgrade to the ad free version for a few bucks…
I don’t disagree that they should make some money for their efforts, but isn’t every client for lemmy made by a single developer?
Does paying for it also remove the trackers, or just the ads?
Both
If it was reasonably priced, I’d agree. But €20 is just insane, especially when the clients it competes with already have no ads for free
Yeah, I agree the ad-free price seems a little steep. I would be much more fine paying 5-10 dollars for it.
You’re bothered by the ads? Just pay money for it
lol
Oh no! Someone wants compensation for their labor?? The horror!
How dramatic of you
Do you own slaves? Because you seem to expect everything to be unpaid labour
Where are all my foss slaves at
I’ve been using systemwide adblock on all my electronics for years now so I forget that in app ads are a thing. But yeah, I see your point. They do offer a one time purchase to remove ads.
Me too, which makes Sync an endless scroll of black squares where ads should be. No thanks, Connect it is.
You might need a better adblocker. With AdGuard I see an empty box from time to time. It’s in the colour of the background.
That still looks horrible
You can pay to hide it completely.
I know, i would pay for it (as I did buying the reddit pro and dev versions) but I don’t consider that it has a fair price and I don’t support subscription models either.
I’m happy hopping between connect and eternity. Boost beta is coming next week as well, so I’m not worried at all.
Scrolling through those black spaces is for sure a bad user experience for me, but to each his own
It’s good we have plenty of options. I’m going to try Boost as well because it’s the app that really hooked me to reddit and in the end it brought me to lemmy. Although Sync has been so great there’s no guarantee I switch. And if Boost released earlier, I probably wouldn’t even tried Sync. Let’s see them compete. Or collaborate. Or both.
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I’d pay 5ish bucks like I did for RIF, but for now ill just donate to Liftoff or other open dev without ad injection needs. Id rather buy Sync outright for a few bucks than have yet another ad platformed app running.
You can do that, I did that
that’s what I see without an adblocker
Maybe it’s this?
I use nextdns and I don’t see any blank squares. It just looks like it’s ad free.
Suggestions on adblock for system?
Use a pihole as your DNS server. Applies to all the devices in your network.
Well for my phone I used RethinkDNS before I rooted it again. After rooting I use AdAway.
I just ditched apps that show ads so now I don’t need a system wide adblock on my phone or computer. Ublock Origin in Firefox is enough
To each their own, I’ve heard connect is a great app!
from someone that used Connect before Sync was available: it works but feels like someone’s hobby. lots of issues and quirks to work around. Sync is absolutely perfect and I wouldn’t be using lemmy without it.
FWIW you can use list or compact view and it won’t show ads (for now at least). Or just pay the pricey one-time fee to remove ads.
I really enjoy using connect. RIF vibes within lemmy is what im here for
… Izzy?
Your opinion matters! Yea the ads suck but if you like how smooth the app is you can get rid of them for a very small fee. But if you are happy with another ap, Connect, more power to ya!
I had to trawl through the cookie settings and manually disable every single option. After that I no longer see any ads, just a space where the ads should be. Annoying that I had to do that though, with Reddit Sync I’d paid a one off fee I think and never saw any ads.
I get it though. I think this app is the devs main job, and the user base is significantly smaller than what it was for Reddit so he’s having to put ways in to recover some income.
If you click “reject” it does the same.
I could be mis-remembering but I think I did click that, but the “legitimate interest” options were still ticked?
Nah reject should reject them all 👍
Sync is the reason I left Reddit and joined Lemmy!
That said, the new pricing options scared me away (you can’t tag users unless you get the super expensive one? Why? I used to be able to on the Reddit app) so I’ve been using Jerboa. It’s not as good as Sync (maybe 80% as good, for my purposes at least), but it’s free and getting better all the time.
Not being able to tag users like I could with the old Sync pro is the main thing that peeves me about it too.
I’vr never used sync on reddit. What’s the workflow of user tagging? Do you get to create a sort of local database of types of accounts?
You could add a little tag beside their username saying whatever you wanted it to. It was great if you found someone to be particularly helpful or knowledgeable about something and then would see them pop up in other places. I remember tagging that guy who really knew vacuums for e.g… Or maybe there’s some other little quirk. I’ve forgotten the username of the dude who didn’t want to shit for three days here on Lemmy and definitely would’ve tagged them as such.
Now that I think about it, I remember seeing how many times I’d upvoted people beside their name too (was that in the app or an RES thing?) which is another nice little feature.
For example, I had a tag labeled “don’t click” for the guy on reddit that had that weird spinning Pikachu hyperlinked on the period at the end of his posts. That tag saved me from wasting so much time.
Connect has user tagging and is free
Interesting, I might have to give that app a try!
If only the developer of Relay had jumped to Lemmy as well.
Thunder is the closest I’ve found to Relay!
A lot of people are mad about sync, because of dumb reasons. but man I just wouldn’t use lemmy without it. I’d rather just not.
Even if I’m not using Sync, I am happy that Lemmy has a great app that draws Reddit users, and a smorgasbord of apps to choose from.
That’s probably why people are mad. I’ve seen lots of comments to the effect of they don’t want Redditors here because they’ll “ruin” Lemmy.
Sync makes it harder for them to gatekeep.
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As a former Redditor myself, I’m not going to be able to answer that question. I do agree, though: users don’t magically come out of nowhere.
I wish i could lot in on sync…
Sync is great… Lemmy as a whole? Lots of work to do. Shit is pretty stagnant around here.
Sync got me hyped for Lemmy, I used it for Reddit for more than a decade.
But, for Lemmy I started to use Connect, and while I was waiting for Sync, Connect became the Lemmy app for me.
Anything sync is missing?
Privacy. Sync includes Google trackers, whereas other apps for lemmy do not. I get it though, gotta make money somehow. Still, I’d rather use something else and donate to the dev on occasion.
The ad free version removes the trackers
Shouldn’t have to pay for something that’s free in every other Lemmy app
me waiting for boost knowing it will probably never release until next year
Same, dev said end of August, but that didn’t happen. The guy isn’t very fast, but he is a solo dev and the end result is pretty good so it doesn’t bother me that much. I’m enjoying Sync in the meantime.
Sync dev is solo. Just sayin’.
Sync is definitely my main, with Liftoff being my backup QB. Liftoff is last though?? Really? I don’t get that, I think it’s pretty great
There are a lot of results under this you can see at https://strawpoll.com/wby5A21R1yA, I just took a screenshot on my phone and that’s what fit and didn’t feel like doing a really long screenshot lol
Liftoff is pretty great though, I used it as my primary for a while and still use it occasionally
Liftoff still is my preferred option over sync. My only problem with liftoff is I don’t like the way it shows replies within longer comment chains. It’s too cluttered. Sync does a better job there
I used Sync with Reddit, so it was a very natural transition for lemmy.
But I also noticed that between it, Connect, and Jerboa, it’s the only one that has smooth scrolling in the comments. Connect and Jerboa are really janky even scrolling comments.
Smooth scrolling makes me feel sick so that is more of a benefit when using Jerboa.
I’ve got several of these installed and I keep finding myself using liftoff. It’s not perfect, but it let’s me combine my subscriptions from several accounts into one view. I like that a lot & don’t see that option in the other apps.
Oh I liked Liftoff and didn’t even know it had that! I’ll have to check that out!
Anything in particular you like about liftoff?
Seeing as you’re asking this all over the thread, I have a feature request: can we get poll embed? Assuming strawpoll has an API (or if it’s possible on the client side without an API or much of a performance hit)
The combining of subscriptions i s exactly why I like liftoff as well. Used a couple other clients, but Liftoff seemed the most stable and easy for me.
Where did you link the poll? Cause some communities might trend more towards certain apps (ones that migrated from reddit for example).
[email protected], which according to lemmyverse.net is the biggest community on Lemmy so it shouldn’t have too much bias
Edit: for some reason lemmyverse.net doesn’t show every instance, browse.feddit.de shows it as the third biggest which doesn’t change much but still
Sync seems great, but it has three Google trackers included, so I’m not using it. Jerboa, Connect and Voyager are great, but they all have some downsides. My keyboard is weird in Jerboa, Connect does not allow me to sort by subscribed and Voyager’s comment-upvote system is a bit clunky, being hidding behind another tap. Also, Voyager’s UI generally looks like it’s made for iPhone, which is not what I’m looking for. But for the moment I’ll stick with it.
Ad free version removes the trackers
I have the Duck Duck Go app for Android and it has a tracker blocker feature. It has to utilize a local VPN though , so if you use a VPN you can’t use that at the same time. But, the app blocks known trackers for all apps. I love it
Oh man I didn’t realize the problem of Google trackers, I guess it’s time to uninstall it then, even though it’s really slick.
Just downloaded Voyager to give it a try, and there’s an “Androud UI” toggle in the settings
You’re right!
What app do you use?
I think this would be more useful if it separated the results by platform (android, ios, web). Sync is the top result, but it’s android exclusive.
That would be interesting to see the breakdown
Hello, i am curious to know where you have published the poll to collect responces, as it could wildly influence the result. Which instances, communities, external sites?
It was near the top of everything, or whatever we call /r/all over here, that’s where I saw it. I think it was in a technology community, but not 100% sure.
Sync here! Although I confess it’s only until Boost gets dropped. I like Sync but after using Boost for years it just feels really odd to me to use this app. Not a single complaint, it’s just personal preference.
