In this day and age it’s more likely that you don’t have voice minutes or SMS quota remaining than you not having internet access.

That isn’t a good justification to me.

You want developers who spent years studying design and development, to spend months developing an app, to just give that app away for free?

People like you are why more and more developers join big corporations for salaried position rather than trying to make it by themselves in the indie scene. Because they know they can’t make it in the indie scene because you are too cheap to pay for their apps (either by buying the app, or by consenting to see ads)

If your app can’t exist without ads then I don’t believe it should exist at all.

Sync for Lemmy exists as a paid, ad-free version. The ad-supported version only exists for people who don’t want to, or can’t, buy the app.

26 y/o from Sri Lanka. Hate automatics. Daily drive manual cars and motorcycles with gears.

Stab them in the eye with a pin?

I don’t think Lemmy search works for anything but communities. You’re trying to use the search to look for a user profile.

!syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

It’s just plain better than any other alternative. Better UI, better UX, better features, better customization, support for Monet… I could go on all day.

Better than America.

From lemmy.world here and it says I’m your 77th downvoter. I can see two upvotes which makes your aggregate score -75.

I was switching between Voyager, Infinity and Thunder until Sync got released. None of those even come close to the User Experience of Sync. It’s not even the bugs, it’s the interface and the UX.

Literally zero FOSS apps that are even half as good as Sync.

I understand that it’s new, and it is definitely the best FOSS Lemmy app out of the dozens that I used. But it has a very long way to go to achieve the same level of User Experience that Sync has. It’s not even close and I don’t think anything bar a major UI/UX rehaul could fix that.

I was using Thunder last week until Sync’s open beta got approved and the User Experience and the interface of Thunder is nowhere near Sync. It’s a night and day difference, and a difference that would have made me use Lemmy less and less.

ITT, bunch of people who have never used Sync for Reddit whining about Sync Ultra and the app having ads. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Chill, mate, it’s open-beta. Sync Ultra was a thing on Sync for Reddit as well, which comes with features that need constant cash such as server maintenance etc. IAP for ad removal will come soon.

IAP for ad removal will come soon. It’s the first open-beta, give it some time.

You won’t get a 404 if you’re using the webapp, or on most mobile apps. For instance, I’m on Voyager and the subreddit link works fine upon clicking. No need to copy and paste it to the search.

It acts as a URL in most mobile apps and the website.

Already did. Now I only visit Reddit to check out some niche communities that are not on Lemmy yet.

Loving it. Reminds me of the olden days of Reddit where the communities were smaller but everyone was contributing more.

The bugs and the issues help sell the fact that it’s a smaller community so even those don’t bother me so much.