• douglas@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Can’t wait and will be buying premium if there is one asap. His last app served me well for years

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    11 months ago

    Are you kidding me? Just checked this community for the first time in a month and this post is 15 minutes old? That’s freaky timing

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    11 months ago

    Aw man, a pre-register? I mean obviously I pre-registered, but you got me super excited for a second lol

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    It appears that it is getting close to a full release for Sync for Lemmy. My only concert is that it might go to a subscription only method of payment. I’d rather pay a lot for a one time unlock or even like a 2 year unlock instead of a monthly subscription.

    Im getting subscription burnout and I’m sick of having to juggle literally a hundred subscriptions every month. If it does go subscription based, sadly I’ll probably pass on it. Which would be a sad close to a long history of using sync.

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      Not related to this app, but I agree very much about subscriptions. I cancelled most of mine.

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          I have Prime but yeah, thinking about getting rid of that too. I got free transport from Amazon when ordering stuff though so that’s very nice.

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            For me, the goods are worse than ever, and I just don’t care to support amazon’s practices nor China.

            Also free shipping is still available for most items if you can wait 3 days. You know they’re going to raise the price again come the beginning of the year.

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      There will be a single time payment for ad-free as was the case with Sync for Reddit. Any subscription based model is for the features which are going to require running (and paying) for a server. Even for Ultra (the paid subscription model) we would most likely have a lifetime option.

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      As there is only a handful of lemmy users compared to reddit, I think simply relying on one time purchase is not sustainable for the dev. After the bot accounts purge, there seems to be 1 million lemmy users right now, and only a fraction that is an active users, say, 20% of it (very generous), which translate to 200,000 users. If even 1% of those users bought Sync for Lemmy for $10 (no idea what the actual price will be), it would means 2000 people buy the app. With app store’s 30% cut, that means the dev only got $14,000, which is peanuts assuming he’ll need to support the app as long as the reddit version (10 years or more?).

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    Anyone else noticed that Connect for Lemmy has just changed its design? Feels like it’s taken a lot of “inspiration” from Sync…

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      11 months ago

      I remember the dev of connect was in this community praising sync a little while back so I’m not surprised.

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        Connect dev here - I am! Big fan of Sync (which probably comes through in Connect’s design language). RIF and Infinity is also a source of inspiration.

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    I’m looking forward to replacing the Sync icon I still have sitting on my homescreen that just throws a 401. Can’t bring myself to kill it.

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      I just replaced it with jerboa while waiting, doesn’t even matter what the icon is, my muscle memory still takes me here automatically lol.

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      I’m using a modified version with my own API key which is scratching the itch nicely at the moment. Can’t wait to use Lemmy via Sync too!

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    I paid for regular Sync, I paid for Dev Sync when the new UI was only in that channel, and I will gladly pay for Lemmy Sync the second I can!

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      I also ended up buying each version of sync and have registered for this one. It’ll be an instant buy.

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    I’m excited and pre-registered. I didn’t pay for sync for reddit, but now that I am more educated about the life of developers and third party apps, I will def pay for sync for lemmy. I have heard good things about some of the existing apps, but I have just been using the web browser while I wait for the sync app to be ready, and I am so ready to download and use it. <3

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      11 months ago

      I donated to Boost for Reddit. I will probably donate to Boost for Lemmy as well. With the nature of Lemmy though, we can’t forget to donate to our favorite instances too!

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        I still don’t fully understand the fediverse, but I’m starting to. I know that the .world or the .ml or the .ee or whatever are the “instances” and that I can see all the stuff on all of them even tho I use .world. I am sure I will understand it better once I can start using sync again (or at least start understanding it in the capacity in which I’ll be using it). How do I support an instance? I’m also a broke bitch and don’t have a ton of disposable income, but reddit was and lemmy now is a service I appreciate and rely on, so I want to support the people providing said service, although I’m so grateful that I’ve been able to use sync for free for essentially the last decade.

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          Yeah, anything after the @ is the instance. Each instance hosts some of the communities (subreddits) and some of the users. Donate to the instance you’re signed up to as a first priority and then maybe any other that hosts a load of communities you care about or do a particularly good job at something.

          But if you’re broke and can’t afford it, don’t worry! On the other hand those of us who DO have a little bit of disposable income should donate a little here and there to help bring about the internet we want to see.

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          There’s a donate button on the top of the page (it looks like a heart) you can donate there. Second, a little off topic trick but did you know Mastodon users can communicate with us as well!! its pretty cool

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            I was never a Twitter user so I didn’t feel the need to become a mastodon user, but I do think that’s very cool, so now I can see stuff on mastodon without having to be a mastadonian? (Ps thanks for chatting)

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              Only from Mastodonians that put in the effort to post to a Lemmy community or respond to a Lemmy post. Still neat to see it working though. If you’re really interested you could try Kbin. It interacts with all Lemmy and Mastodon content.

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    Can’t wait to delete all the other lemmy apps I’ve been trying. Most do most things well, but none do everything well like Sync.

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      Tbd, not saying it wont be good. But will temper my expectations until I see the app and how it feels.

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        It’s the same UI experience as the reddit version so I don’t see any reason to not be excited about it.

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          The problem is that there are some issues which will not be solved by the app like links to posts on another instances

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            In a browser this can be solved with a userscript. Could the same be done within an app?

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            Ok. So that’s one thing sync can’t do. Are you dismissing it based on one feature?

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                Idk, that’s one pretty minor inconvenience imo. I wouldn’t be surprised if the links can be corrected by the app anyways since there are some browser extensions/scripts that can do it on desktop. It’s not an unsolvable problem.