• Captain Howdy
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    1911 months ago

    It has ads… Why are people so excited about this? Jerboa is open source with no ads and works perfectly.

    • @[email protected]
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      2811 months ago

      It has ads unless you pay to remove the ads, which is a perfectly reasonable model for an app to use.

        • @[email protected]
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          111 months ago

          Imo that’s pretty unethical. If you don’t want ads, use an app where the maintainer has decided not to include ads or not to charge.

          But don’t take something from a sole-developer (meaning in this case labor is actually getting all the fruits of their labor instead of a CEO), use one of the other options instead where the developers aren’t using it as their main source of income.

    • @[email protected]
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      1611 months ago

      Personally, I love the UI/UX of it and how customizable it is. For me, it’s unparalleled, and I’m happy to pay for it to support the independent developer behind it. But I get that not everyone cares about it and would rather use a different option, and it’s cool that there are so many different options to interact with the fediverse.

    • @[email protected]
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      1311 months ago

      True, but I found Jerboa to be very unpolished and barely worked so I crawled back to Reddit. Now that Sync for lemmy is released I feel right at home.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months ago

        Was that during the period of time they couldn’t upgrade lemmy.world? Been stabe ever since the upgrade was done and the servers tuned. For me it is the most RiF like of all the apps, so I prefer using it.

    • TheSaneWriter
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      1011 months ago

      I like swiping gestures, it has a really nice UI, and I don’t mind unintrusive ads in otherwise free software.

    • Subverb
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      211 months ago

      Be cause Sync is a beautiful app with incredible flexibility. Jerboa is fugly.

      If you don’t like it, or are a foss purist, don’t use it.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 months ago

      They also cross post on every single instance and tech community so I have only seen 1 million “sync for Lenny” posts…… so far