Not hating on open source, just let people use what fits their expectations and needs and stop deterring them with gatekeeping :P

UX = user experience

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    1 year ago

    What do you think is wrong about sync? The developer has had a low cost well supported product for quite a while. I must be missing your point.

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        1 year ago

        At the federal minimum wage in the US, it’s a little under three hours of work. Assuming full time work, that would be .14% of the gross income for the year. As a nonrecurring purchase, that seems low cost to me.

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        1 year ago
        • nothing wrong with that

        • nothing wrong with that

        • the data collection modules have not been initialized in the Sync code

        But continue evangelizing.

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          Wtf you mean by “nothing wrong with that”, if its not wrong then fuck off from lemmy, go to reddit there is a lot more content over there

          And how the fuck do you know the data collection modules are not initialized, and will not be initialized

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            1 year ago

            Why do you assume that content is the reason I chose a platform? Why do you gatekeep and dictate people’s choices?

            And also from the Sync discord:

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              Because you all mentioning about ux again and again, which is all about interface and content for a forum platform. Before 20 years tracking and subscription models werent around but now they are everywhere and people slowly became ignorant(especially post-millenial people). As a result we now dont give a fuck about free, open sourced, private things. Thats why i am judging, but if there are things i miss please dm me, i would really like to hear where i am mistaken.

              Sorry about data tracking, i didnt know

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                I’ll be transparent as to why I paid. And I only speak for me, not any other Sync user. Sync has been the app I used the most in the past decade. Sync has been what I - personally and subjectively - found to be my ideal android app experience, above all other apps. The majority of the time my phone is on is with Sync open. And this was all for free, for nearly a decade.

                Reddit has taken that away from me. And the reason I’m willing to pay is to compensate the Sync dev for the value he has personally given me. While I believe in FOSS, I believe more in the principle of fair trade. And I have judged that, in my specific circumstance, he has given me more in value over the past 10 years than the price he currently asks for. And again, I only speak for myself.

                And yes, the source of information comes from the serving platform (whether that’s Reddit or Lemmy instances). I would have been willing to pay for a Reddit API key if that meant being able to keep Sync. But they don’t offer it. And once I am able to migrate my profile to a different instance, I plan on donating to that instance if they take donations.

                I’ve done the same with any service that has given me value, including Wikipedia. Again, this is based on fair trade and value.

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                  1 year ago

                  Fair enough, have fun browsing lemmy over sync.

                  But i still recommend and hope all to use foss