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Appreciation post for Liftoff not collecting user data or injecting ads. (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I was looking forward to trying Sync today now that it's live, but my enthusiasm was immediately dampened after seeing the "Data Safety" section on the Google Play store.

Liftoff has been great, and want to say thanks for making an awesome app. This will continue to be my daily driver.

Edit: for clarity, because the post got way bigger than I expected.

Sync looks like a fantastic app, and the dev/s should charge whatever they feel is fair for their efforts, even if that's through the usual ads + ad tracking.

My intent was just to post here in /c/Liftoff to thank the Liftoff devs for managing to somehow offer an awesome app without any of that.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 years ago (10 children)

You have other free and amazing options that sync has no advantages over. They are all just as good, if not better.

  1. Liftoff
  2. Thunder
  3. Jerboa
  4. Connect
  5. Voyager (my favorite so far)
  6. Infinity for Lemmy. Early development, but still free and no ads

I don't get why I would go for sync, get tracked, watch ads or pay a monthly subscription!

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hard disagree. I find Sync the best user experience so far, including the best looking UI hands down

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've been using Voyager until today. It was a fine app, but anyone who thinks it holds a candle to Sync is off their rocker. Sync has more features, runs far more smoothly, and looks a hell of a lot better.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Exactly. I don't think many of the people who are claiming Sync is no better than others have actually used and thoroughly explored Sync, even for Reddit.

The customization options are incredible. Beautiful UI. Backup options. Filters. Settings that are fine tuned, and separate per account. It feels like years of work and polish, compared to weeks or months for others. Others work fine (fan of Liftoff), getting better, but I'm blown away with Dawson and Sync. The "ad outrage" is disappointing and silly to me at this stage (literally day one).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Well the years of work is literally that. Sync for lemmy is based on sync for reddit base. Or so it seems

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Same with Jerboa.

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

I prefer Infinity

(Sadly the Lemmy version is not stable yet)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the free apps have really raised the bar. I think there's a lot of passion out there for the fediverse and non-corporate social media.

I haven't tried Voyager yet, but it sounds like I should give it a shot!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol, claiming that Jerboa is just as good if not better than sync is wild!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Isn't that down to what one individually consider "good"?

I find notepad-style text editors better word processors than Microsoft's online Office system. It's not because notepads are technically better or more visually appealing. It's because I value not being tracked more.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Fucking love Infinity. Amazing what the devs are doing in a short amount of time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Summit (#1 in my heart), also lemmotif is in early development but has promise.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Whoa summit is pretty nice. I've been using Connect but maybe not anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Infinity is coming? Is it similar to the reddit version? And where can I see updates for it?

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

Yep! Here's the website where you can find it right now: https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy

You can download it from the Releases section manually or install and keep it updated with Obtainium

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's already out, but it still has lots of references to reddit. There's even still a ui for giving out awards

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What does liftoff have that the others don't?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

For one, it handles account switching much more smoothly than most apps I've tried.

While viewing a post, commenting, searching, or posting, you can choose your originating instance from a drop-down. Most other apps have to reload your feed and/or relaunch.

It's been really helpful for me whenever an instance is bogged down or acting funny, and I can just hop over without losing my place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Oh man I didn't even see that in the menu. That is handy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, this is really handy every time world gets attacked. I still have my world account set as my main, but it's super easy to just switch over.

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

Liftoff is great, it's true. Sadly, it lacks the only feature I'm after : hide read posts on scroll. Saw requests for this not being answered, so I guess it's not coming.

Great app I admit, but a hard pass for me because of this.

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

I'd love this to be added too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I want it to scroll to the comment in the post. I'm always manually trying to find the context of a comment by scrolling and looking.

I mean when you get a notification about a response and it takes you to the comment. It just shows you the comment. And then you click on Show Context. And here I was hoping it would scroll to the location of the comment in the post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Does Liftoff offer keyword filtering or blocking instances at the account level?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A better question is, what does Liftoff lack that others don't?

I miss being able to hide posts, for example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

In Sync settings under View Type, you can enable the option to hide a post from the main feed view. In fact, there's a lot of additional features that can be enabled and customized, the options menu is enormous and it really can be customized to your personal preferences.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I used Sync for a long time on Reddit, but there didn't seem to be any free clients (with no ads) there.

I like "no ads" a lot more than I like "a very slightly better UI", and the free ones for Lemmy offer enough for what I need. I don't know what a paid one could offer over that to convince me to buy it.