The developer worked his ass off to repurpose his app to Lemmy for us.

I was more than happy to pay for his time. Hard work deserves reward. If people aren't going to pay him and use the free version, which you're welcome to, then he makes his money from ads (which pay fuck-all)

You're just a bunch of cheapskates who want to be entertained for nothing.

All the self righteousness of lemmy is strange.

There's not just better opinions, even small decisions are morally imbued and if someone steps out of line...

Wait, does using sync cause hurricanes? Earthquakes? Will the four big ponies of the lempocalypse arrive and snort angrily?

Otherwise, I get that a surge of people elated they have something you don't/can't have is off putting. FOMO is real.

But it doesn't need all the meme-shade.

Voyager is free and the pwa feels close to a native app.

Just paying a visit to lemmy because Sync is out, and all I've seen is this. Lemmy is just another reddit, isn't it? People here are no better like what they believe themselves to be, still the same everywhere.

I'm just happy we have all of these choices.

The FOSS apps are fantastic already and Sync is there if you want that too.

Jesus Christ guys, there's like one inline ad every 30 posts. Quit bitching

Not a big fan of the price, but it's free to use if you want and the app is amazingly smooth.

Also, if you decide to use this app for many years, the one time payment isn't that bad at all.

God forbid you have to pay for stuff.

I'm all here for the lemmy app war of 2023. Sync for life!!

I never see Liftoff recommended in these kinds of threads. It's my favourite app so far out of Thunder, Connect, and Jerboa.

I don't understand the people hating on Sync just as much as I don't understand the people hating posts criticizing sync.

It's an app. Let people use what they want to use lmao. Growth for Lemmy is a good thing regardless

Sync is free.

There is a paid version sure. But the free version is still excellent.

I'll repeat what I said in several other threads at this point:

I loved the old app, I still love the new app, it’s a pleasure to use compared to the alternatives I’ve tried, and I find the ultra subscription rate both reasonable and worthwhile to support a product I truly enjoy.

Sync is good for me. There’s plenty of other options if it’s not good for you.

I'm using it right now. Working just fine so far, exactly the same as the reddit version, and I haven't been asked to pay $20 for it.

The ads aren't even working yet lol it's still in beta. I don't get why everyone is complaining.

I don't even understand this headlong rush for an app. And especially being so desperate for an app that you'd use one that embeds ads unless you pay to remove them.

It just seems completely backwards to me.

With Reddit, it made sense - it was awful in a mobile browser, the official app was complete garbage, and either way it was buried in ads So you could (and I did) use a third party app and get a cleaner and more useful interface and no ads.

But Lemmy's already fine in a browser and it's ad-free. So what's the point?

I could maybe see, somewhere down the road when the apps are complete and established, it might be interesting to experiment with some and maybe find one that's got just the features I like most. But that's not what I'm seeing. What I'm seeing are people desperately clamoring for an app - any app - it doesn't matter how primitive and janky it is - they just desperately need to have an app right now, today, this instant. As if lemmy is completely unusable without one.

And it's just... not that way at all. Sure, it could be better, but it's fine.

So I just don't get it.

look i dont got much money in the bank but people need to start donating to foss creators cause it's getting dumb, musescore sold out to ultimate guitar and theyre going to shit cause guess what? no one gave money. the linux distro im using is ome of the biggest jn the world and it barely scrapes 1000 usd a month. when i get a job i'll start giving money but people seriously need to chip in, im not mad at sync at all i get it

This meme is dumb. There are more options than just the web ui and sync, most are free.

I do not want to fuckin hear about this app anymore. Jerboa is working just fine, jesus

Perhaps lemmy admins should start charging apps like this for API access…

I've been using Connect. I'm testing out Sync the last couple of days and I think I like Connect better.

Connect seems good enough to me

Or jerboa, I use that right now

I can't stand the web app. Sync is fantastic!

infinity for lemmy is out posting this from infinity.

I think the bigger issue is that you can't afford a $20 one time fee for a highly polished app that will get a massive amount of usage. I know it's a tough economy but $20 isn't a crazy amount of money.

Really don't get what all the fuss regarding Sync is about. There are plenty of alternatives out there, free or not. Maybe someone can explain what I'm missing?

Connect let's me block to my hearts content.

No more Swedish memes and weird furry porn and celebrity creepshot communities.

I've personally been using Infinity for reddit and now I'm using the Infinity beta for Lemmy and it's been like an exact clone. Perfect for me.

And no I'm not capitalizing reddit. Lemmy good