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R5: just started checking it out. It's cool and has some advantages of others. It's hella expensive. Thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I switched to Voyager. Check it out..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Just downloaded it and I love it! Thanks for the tip!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I pay the $2/month version. Supports the dev, and keeps an otherwise unused credit card active. And considering this is now the only form of social media and/or interacting with other people online I use, I figure it's worth two bucks a month. The same way the $15 or so I didn't post month, spread across multiple patreon accounts, is worth it to support the small handful of content creators that make the vast majority of my daily entertainment.

I've been trying to take two stances lately. The first being the idea of "if you're not the customer, you're the product."

And the second being the CGPGrey method. Which is basically, if an app or service is important to me, I specifically WANT it to be a paid app/service. If the app in question doesn't have a clear path to being financially viable for those making/running it, there's too much risk that the dev may eventually have to stop working on it in order to go do something else that can earn them a living.

Or no, something being open source, or not, did not change this equation. People gotta live.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

It would be nice if more people truly understood what you call the "CGP Grey method". So many people are so used to adblockers in combination with youtube etc. being free, that they never think of the fact that somehow the webspace and content needs to be paid for.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Had been using Sync nonstop. Tried Boost this morning.

I no longer use Sync.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I liked Sync Pro on Reddit but there's no way I can justify the huge cost jump for a lemmy version.

I hope lemmy does OK but it could be replaced anytime with something a bit better and there's still a lot less content than Reddit had.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I use the free version and it's fine and free?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Same thoughts, free is cheap enough

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also, adblock on your DNS and I can't even tell I'm on the free version! Never seen an ad

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Oh yeah, I forgot it even had ads because we have a pi hole.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I bought Reddit Sync years ago and loved it until Reddit shit itself. Had no issues paying for Lemme Sync. Lemme seemed to lost gas recently and I miss the size off the community Reddit has.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I miss the size of the reddit community too. But, I found a silver lining with Lemmy's community, I still get my fix but since it's not that big it forced me to reduce my intake and now I'm less addicted and used to just opening the "reddit" app as I used to. But also one thing I found useful is to browse the "top six hours" in everything tab.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Same here. Towards the end I was on reddit way too much. Lemmy, I check maybe 5 or so times a day and have a better balance.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I use Sync but I haven't paid for it. I turned off all the options in the cookie banner so all I see is a grey box where ads would be and you quickly just don't even see it after a lot of use.

If it were a one off payment of like £5 I'd pay it, I bought it for Reddit, but I can't justify the cost.

If you're a really heavy user then it might be worth it but there's so many great alternatives out there then I think it's hard to justify.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Definitely worth the ad free. Not the Ultra.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Nah, Jerboa is great, donate to the project instead, or to your local instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I love sync. I still visit reddit for a few communities, but only on my laptop, never my phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Sometimes I use reddit too, and I swear to god the mobile app is so filled with bugs left and right that haven't been fixed for years. It's hard to tolerate. Reddit is best in web searches, because there are many relevant discussions. But I'm so glad kagi added a fediverse lens so I can also search Lemmy as I do reddit for relevant discussions. They also have a forum lens and a discussion search mode which is so useful because it searches many other forums and it helps filter out all those useless listicles, websites that copy others and other websites that contain keywords to popular issues just to get traffic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I bought the ultra/whatever when it first came out. Same justification as others who have purchased it. I use it for hours a day and i used it on reddit. I love the similar feel and the dev is amazing. Worth the money in my eyes but i can appreciate the people that use the free and ad block. You do you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The dev is amazing! lemme just pay 20$ for a sporadic update cycle and the same features as most other free and open source alternatives /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Using free version of sync. Why would I pay for those perks beyond donating?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Haven't seen anybody suggest thunder yet but it's a top notch app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I used to use it with RethinkDNS's custom DNS so I never had those ads people buy ad-free to get rid of (there are still placeholders which kind of annoyed me). The UI is pretty nice, it also has features Jerboa does not have. Such as advanced searching that can search users and comments as well (this is possible in the web version), or mod tools. There are a few others but I still decided to switch back to Jerboa because FOSS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I paid for no ads and that's it. I don't need sync ultra, it's cheap, but I don't need it. Ads didn't bother me, but I had paid before for the reddit app, and the Lemmy one is also great, so I wanted to support the developer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Try out Eternity first!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, the ad free for $20 absolutely is. $120 ultimate... Eh not so much for me, currently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I've initially considered getting the ad-free version, as I did buy it for Reddit Sync, but so far I'm not getting any ads in the free version anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

ADBLOCK YOUR DNS. Seriously surprised how many free users see ads with sync lol, how do you guys live with so many ads on your phone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I have adblock on my phone. Need to setup pihole again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

not an app. you've got your dns set to use dns.adguard.com?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I pay for the services and apps I care for and I still want to be up, developers need to eat and for the huge corporate bullshit I don't give a shit about I have adblockers such as DNS66.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I need to eat too, and I don't like ads lmao. Maybe the premium version should be worth buying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I think it is an excellent Lemmy client, I use the free version though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I've been thru a few but my current favorite is Summit