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
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.
Just downloaded Voyager to give it a try, and there’s an “Androud UI” toggle in the settings
You’re right!
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.
Ad free version removes the trackers
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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’m not mad, I just prefer open source software that doesn’t collect my data. What are your favorite things about sync that I can’t get with Jereboa?
If you aren’t the kind of person that says things along the lines of Sync is bad because it has an ad supported version which is optional but it shouldn’t be optional for some reason, then we aren’t talking about you.
to answer your question, sync has a nice and modern user interface that is enjoyable to spend your time with.
Jerboa is… functional, Sync has design and thought behind its interactions and user experience. If that’s okay with you, then that’s fine. But I wasn’t happy there.
I wish i could lot in on sync…
Eventually kbin support will be added
Heck, lemmy is barely supported. The dev just bootstrapped the lemmy API into the reddit app and published it as a beta. We were all happy for that, but it will be a while before it’s a polished lemmy app.
Where did you link the poll? Cause some communities might trend more towards certain apps (ones that migrated from reddit for example).
!asklemmy@lemmy.ml, 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
You do know the difference between communities and instances, right? And you do know how federation works, right? Also, based on where you look, !asklemmy@lemmy.ml is either the largest or one of the three largest communities on lemmy, so I don’t think there’s much bias in there
I really like Thunder personally.
Same here, I thought it was a lot more popular tbh but I guess thats not the case
What app do you use?
Boost for lemmy is now out, might wanna redo that poll.
Doesn’t even have mark as read on scroll. I think I’ll pass
Maybe, I don’t wanna spam though
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
I hate this too. Ultra is already worth it without having to lock a basic tagging feature behind it.
Not being able to tag users like I could with the old Sync pro is the main thing that peeves me about it too.
Out of a few thousand who responded*.
Well it was more like 4-5k and it is most likely a fair representation of overall users, as it was asked in a general community which is one of the largest and the percentage stayed around the same the whole time
I don’t want to be a dick. All I’m saying is running such a poll is tricky as time of day as well as day of the week will impact the results drastically. Add to that the type of audience and then you’ve got massive skew.
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What general community on what instance?
There is no way this poll provides a realistic sentiment thats anything but a pulled out of thin air guess.
Does the poll verbiage differentiate if I have Sync but use Liftoff far more at the moment?
This poll was originally shared in !asklemmy@lemmy.ml then in !voyagerapp@lemmy.world. Given how one of them is one of the 3 largest communities on the Lemmy network and the other is a community for another app, I would say those communities probably aren’t biased. There wasn’t even a link to the poll on this post until seven hours after this post was created, which was after most of the engagement with this post.
The poll asks for which client(s) you mainly use and has the opportunity for multiple, so 25-30ish percent of 4.5k people (1.8k people) voted that Sync is one of their main clients. That doesn’t mean they don’t use multiple, but it does mean it is by far the largest client used by people in general, even if everyone uses multiple (which I do)
How about a link to the polls directly?
What time of day? how long was the poll up?
This is not a well done poll based on the (lack of) details about it. This is just an arbitrary survey of a small microcosm of users. Making statements like ‘25%’ of Lemmy users are using Sync based on this poll, true or not, is a false conclusion from a limited data set.
/waves poor statstical probabilities around like an old man cane
Why would the time of day change what apps people are using? Same with how long the poll was up? Neither of those factors have any relevance to the topic of the poll.
None of these even matter whatsoever but here you go
12pm UTC, it’s been up since Monday
The data set isn’t that limited given the poll was posted in !asklemmy@lemmy.ml, the second-largest community on the lemmy network (depending on where you look)
If you don’t like Sync than just say it, don’t just complain about a poll in a way that isn’t even true. All you’re doing is wasting your and my time instead of actually doing something productive with your life and time
Well yeah, that’s generally how polls work.
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.
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!
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.
That must be why I’ve never seen ads. I see people bitch about it every time someone mentions Sync, but have literally never seen one. Also the dev is a bad ass. I’ve twice mentioned bugs in release threads and he’s fixed them within a few minutes each time.
$20 really isn’t that bad for ad removal
How much do you pay to remove ads in other apps? Serious question.
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There is no other app I use nearly as much or as often as Sync.
I’ve used sync for almost ten years now… I think it’s worth the fee to remove ads. But sure, there are ads.
It’s strange, both on Sync for Reddit and Sync for Lemmy I’ve always seen the space for ads, but never an actual ad showing in that space. So I just get random black spaces between posts
Sync on reddit also inserts ads in image gallerys i think.
Pretty sure you’re right there, Imgur galleries used to contain ads when viewed in Sync
… Izzy?
Watch out, those are fighting words according to the .world admins!
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.
I use nextdns and I don’t see any blank squares. It just looks like it’s ad free.
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?
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
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?
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
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.
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 👍
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.
I really enjoy using connect. RIF vibes within lemmy is what im here for
Is this available on iOS?
Memmy is the most popular on iOS, there are others that are solid but I’ve seen a hard push to monetize them already.
I like Memmy a lot. Few bells and whistles but the experience is clean and stream lined with no ads.
Love Memmy since the swipe actions are so similar to Apollo. RIP Apollo.
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Just hoping it gets updated again. Development was fast and furious, then it just stopped.
Give them some break, the devs were close to being burned out due to the frequency of updates. Besides that Memmy is pretty alright at the moment and really close to Apollo (RIP).
Oh absolutely. Wasn’t saying it to criticize. I like the app so much that I really hope they come back to develop more.
The poll is, Sync is not
But there are still great clients for IOS, I’ve seen a lot of the about Avelon, Memmy, and Voyager!
I just started using avelon and boy, is it swell.
Make an account on artemis.social and then get the Artemis testflight on ios. That’s my main way to do the kbin/lemmy fediverse on my phone, works great.
Artemis.camp is the site! But yeah, it rocks
Jerboa used to hilariously break every time it was updated if your home instance was even a minor-sub-dot version number behind absolute latest. I couldn’t get rid of it fast enough. Connect and Liftoff are both great clients, I just happen to like Sync more. But, I do still keep Liftoff installed beccause it’s got some outstanding diagnostic tools if you are trying to see all pieces of data related to a post or comment.
I’m pretty sure it’s been months since that was an issue on Jerboa. I wouldn’t say Jerboa is rock solid, but it’s my app of choice. However, as a longtime Sync for Reddit user, I’m happy to see Sync gaining traction. The more the merrier!
It may have been rock-solid in the last few months since, but back when they were having their version numbering issues, I was a very new lemmy user and didn’t understand what the problem was (not that I should have had to)- the only thing I knew at the time was that other clients that I’d just learned about somehow didn’t have the same finicky version number problems as jerboa. It kind of wrecked my entire new-lemmy-user experience - especially since (as far as I know) Jerboa is kind of the semi-official client for Lemmy - it doesn’t need to have all the bells and whistles baked into more robust 3rd party clients - it just needs to be rock solid and run reliably as its only job, and it failed.
When Jerboa was having their version number problems, all of Lemmy was having version numbering problems! I couldn’t access certain instances because the version number was incompatible with the version number of the instance I am on, Two-Factor broke on a version upgrade, it was a mess. Lemmy wasn’t really ready for the Reddit exodus, and neither was Jerboa.
When Jerboa was having their version number problems, all of Lemmy was having version numbering problems
Well, not really. This was JUST a problem for Jerboa. There were some other 3rd party apps available for Lemmy and they didn’t suffer from the same problems. In fact, it wasn’t even a technical limitation of Jerboa itself… if you had previously installed and configured Jerboa when the instance version and the jerboa version matched, and then upgraded your jerboa app when your instance didn’t upgrade their version, it magically worked. The problem was when you installed Jerboa fresh and tried connecting it to a slightly outdated instance version - or if you wrecked yourself by clearing your jerboa cache/data folder without realizing that it would behave like it was starting fresh and break. The problem was solely in over-aggressive version checking during Jerboa startup…a total rookie mistake.
That’s about the time that half of all Lemmy users suddenly learned about the availability of some competing apps that didn’t have the same problems.
I’m talking about other version numbering issues that all of Lemmy experienced at that same time. While the one you spoke about was Jerboa specific, I experienced the other issues on the web as well as on Sync. As you pointed out, Jerboa is developed in parallel with Lemmy and it seems like these issues were a blind spot for the developers.
I have been using jerboa since 3 months ago when I found lemmy. It has worked fin for me!
That’s impressive!
I know I’m so surprised so many voted in general and by the percentage that voted Sync!
I really wanna switch to Eternity / Infinity because I’m able to customize super pretty colors. But I got sync first and it’s super pleasant and easy. Love the post filters.
You can all welcome Boost for Lemmy now too!
Congrats! I’ll have to check it out!
