I was looking forward to trying Sync today now that it’s live, but my enthusiasm was immediately dampened after seeing the “Data Safety” section on the Google Play store.

Liftoff has been great, and want to say thanks for making an awesome app. This will continue to be my daily driver.


Edit: for clarity, because the post got way bigger than I expected.

Sync looks like a fantastic app, and the dev/s should charge whatever they feel is fair for their efforts, even if that’s through the usual ads + ad tracking.

My intent was just to post here in /c/Liftoff to thank the Liftoff devs for managing to somehow offer an awesome app without any of that.

  • jarfil@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    arrow-down
    16
    ·
    1 year ago

    The Sync developer is obviously trying to do something more ambitious.

    Hm, what exactly? It doesn’t seem to have any particularly remarkable features 🤨

    • GiddyGap@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      46
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Sounds like you didn’t actually try the app. It’s super fast and smooth. Lots of customization, great UI. I happily pay for that effort.

      Sync will surely make the lemmy ecosystem more attractive and bring in a ton more people, which is a great thing for everyone here whether you use the app or not.

      • jarfil@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Ok, so I have been trying out Sync… and well, yes, the UI is slightly better, but most of the “fancy” stuff is only in the paid version… which is kind of steep for stuff I could wait a year or two without.

        Most interesting feature I’ve seen, is the search function, but it still fails in many places, so that’s somewhat bittersweet. Curiously, it’s one of the free ones, so… well, I guess I’ll leave it installed for a while and see how things go.

      • moitoi@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        34
        ·
        1 year ago

        More people isn’t great. It’s how social media begin to sink. It was like this on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.

          • moitoi@feddit.de
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            arrow-down
            5
            ·
            1 year ago

            There is an optimum. But, the more is the best isn’t true for communities and social media.

            • MiniBN@jlai.lu
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              5
              ·
              1 year ago

              Maybe, but we are waaaay under that “optimum” right now, so for now the more is the best

              • moitoi@feddit.de
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                3
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                1 year ago

                Optimum doesn’t mean a lot or infinity. It varies from community to community and social platform to social platform.

                Reddit peaked sometimes ago. But Lemmy is not reddit and it’s not focused on the grow.

            • coehl@programming.dev
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              7
              arrow-down
              3
              ·
              edit-2
              1 year ago

              I’ve been pretty frustrated with the gatekeeping and no true Scotsman crap going on with Lemmy lately. I’m even trying sync. But this is an area where I think the refugees need to start listening.

              Infinite growth is not the only goal a community could ever want. And it’s not the goal of many Lemmy instances. An active community is good enough, in most cases.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      19
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Tons of more options and a faster and smoother interface. And moving subscriptions across instances is coming. And it has cloud sync.

      But I agree, it’s quite pricy for the extra bells and whistles.

      • jarfil@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        1 year ago

        Migrating accounts across instances is a pending Lemmy core feature, the server part has to sort that out.

        Liftoff’s interface seems fast and smooth to me, only thing I might be missing is some sort of “multireddits” or Mastodon-like “timelines” to sort things out a bit better, but using multiple accounts kind of works too.

      • aircooledJenkins@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        moving subscriptions across instances

        The language on Sync Ultra is “Import / export subscriptions (Easily move between instances)”

        • 1984@lemmy.today
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          Well yeah, but I think the apis are enough. There are already utilities using those apis to copy subscriptions.