Feels like home
Nice! I just installed it. This is my first comment using Sync.
Oh man… I feels so good to have sync back!
Exactly what I felt, too!!!
I wish they had just updated the old App.
That’s against Google’s terms of use, you’re not supposed to replace an app with something different.
If you had downloaded an app and all of a sudden it changes into something else, you’d be pretty displeased. Imagine if Facebook the company suddenly changed the Instagram app into an app for Facebook, they can do most of the same things, but it’s not the same.
Plus it would be fair for the developer to get new payments for lifetime subscriptions, it’s a new app which is significantly more work than just maintaining an existing one.
I do understand. But is lemmy so different from reddit? In each case the content is done by the users anyway, and subreddits come and go all of the time. One could argue that Facebooks aquisition of WhatsApp is the same kind of change, as switching out the reddit backend of Sync with a lemmy backend.
I’ve wanted Reddit to burn for awhile. It devolved into nothing but a circle jerk.
Good thing Lemmy instances aren’t made from much smaller communities where everyone has more or less the same opinion…
Unless Lemmy would be considered more of an echo chamber for their respective communities versus a circlejerk?
I’d argue that individual instances aren’t all that important. Im on a smaller instances and hardly ever bump into people from my own instance.
When instances start defederating and closing some instances off, I could see, but even then those users would just make another account elsewhere to participate in the “all” of lemmy
I hardly bump into people. Period. Most I see are posts with zero engagement
Downloaded just now, looks great! But I don’t really enjoy the subscription model. Why not make one lifetime purchase of let’s say $20 or something? Monthly or yearly payments are a no for me. But paying even a little bit more for a lifetime would be working.
Ultra != Pro, just like on reddit sync. Ultra comes with a bunch of optional features that require an external server, which generates running cost.
Pro (adfree only) is currently being implemented and will be a one-off payment.
Used relay for Reddit before. Am excited to Test sync
