• h14h@midwest.socialEnglish
    12·
    11 months ago

    This kind of gatekeeping and elitism is bad for Lemmy and for FOSS.

    It makes this community a less welcoming place and leaves new folks with a bad first impression. Much better to be welcoming and let people learn/see the benefits of FOSS at their own pace.

    • dzonc@lemmy.world
      0·
      11 months ago

      I’d given up on lemmy because every so I had tried was unfinished and unpolished. I tried sync and finally felt like the user experience wasn’t getting in the way of content.

      I’d love to support foss, if a genuinely comparable experience existed.

      I’m glad to say that sync has revived my interest in lemmy.

      • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        FOSS doesn’t need your support. You misunderstand the relationship. FOSS is looking out for you.

        • LeFantome@programming.dev
          1·
          11 months ago

          I see the upvotes but I cannot support this comment. FOSS could use a lot more support at every level, including users.

    • DigitalPortkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      11 months ago

      This is why I unsubscribed from the Android community. I love Android, I use nothing but Linux at home and really appreciate open source software.

      But the FOSS…enthusiasm is starting to border on zealotry. It’s getting really unpleasant.

        • rbits@lemm.ee
          01·
          11 months ago

          I use Linux as my daily driver, yet I 100% believe Linux is overrated. It’s great if you’re willing to put in the work to get it working well, or maybe if you have someone else to do all your tech support for you, but it’s just not a good option for the majority of people.

          I hate when people keep trying to push it on Windows users, especially when they go on about how “easy” it is. It’s not. And doing that will get people to try it out with high expectations and then get disappointed when they try it out and that’s not the case.

  • OtakuAltair@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Sync is just so much more polished and feature-rich than all of these already… It’s exactly like how it was when it was for reddit, and it’s just one dev! I don’t mind at all paying for a fantastic app.

    You guys are taking the justified corpo hate and extending it to talented individual devs just making a living.

  • Preußisch Blau@lemmy.ca
    1·
    11 months ago

    Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but does Sync seriously charge to remove ads that they added to browsing Lemmy in the first place? I get charging for Reddit due to the API, but I have a hard time believing the app is that much better than the existing FOSS apps such that the privacy tradeoff with ad trackers and/or the monetary cost worth it for, well, anyone really. Seems kinda scummy and antithetical to the philosophy that drives much of the Fediverse to me, yet I see so many people defending it in a way that reminds me of the rhetoric used to defend Reddit. Seriously, am I just a crazy person?

  • Wildf1re@lemm.ee
    1·
    11 months ago

    I am so happy to finally have Sync again. Was always my most used app before the API death on Reddit. Always happy to support LJ.

  • jerieljan@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    I don’t get the point of this.

    Since when did Sync masquerade itself as FOSS?

    Just use whatever you want. Isn’t that why we’re all here?

    Is the Sync noise getting to you? Just ignore it. It’s natural since the app just opened up and there were a significant amount of Reddit refugees that badly wanted their app back.

  • Titou@feddit.de
    1·
    6 months ago

    for long i thought Voyager had performance issues but in fact it’s my instance’s fault