Developers of MOST Lemmy apps tend to be rather responsive
Developers of MOST Lemmy apps tend to be rather responsive
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People were like "I'm spending all of my money on Sync for Lemmy" when it first released. And it steals your data. Never understood why this one would be preferred over the dozens of actually FOSS or free apps for lemmy
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Can you say more about sync stealing your data? I must have missed the memo.
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Stealing may be the wrong word, but their privacy policy is... Not great... Policy. I much prefer apps that do not get my purchase history and use other forms of trackers, thanks very much!
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Which FOSS Lemmy app do you recommend?
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!voyagerapp@lemmy.world is a popular recommendation.
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Voyager
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Thunder! ⚡
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Eternity is great too!
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I liked Thunder when I used it. But I have been on Connect a lot more which is not FOSS, but I liked it better than the rest of the apps I tried when I first switched to Lemmy. Actually testing Thunder again right now, might be my go-to from now on
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Connect is fine.
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Or they like to hang the carrot that they will “someday” go open source.
Arctic is good and getting better. But dude is too ashamed of his code to allow our help.
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I mean, fair though. I would never want anyone looking at my code either.
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The comments on my code would be all apologies, "my code is crap, sorry" "this shouldn't work but it does. Forgive me" "Beware all that enter, I apologize for the spaghetti everywhere"
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free open source vs paid for proprietary
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Any paid app is a joke to me. Been very very happy with Voyager for a long while now.
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Is this an ethical take, or just a general one?
I'm using boost and am happy to have donated - it's a good app and the dev is decent.
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Do you mean any paid app for Lemmy or any mobile app?
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I despise the iOS UI of Voyager. It literally looks like an iOS 5 app. I don't want that crap on my android device in 2025!
Sync has the most polished, most "Android" UI. The developer disappeared for years at a time before, so he'll be back again.
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I've switched over to Voyager from Sync and I agree about the UI. It's fine but Sync is just prettier and also smoother to use. I miss being able to swipe from the left to bring up the sidebar for communities.
I've tried loads of clients and none come close to Sync in terms of UI and performance, but unfortunately it's buggy (main gripe for me is not being able to see comments on communities from my own instance that I'm not subscribed to), and the app developer seems to have abandoned it.
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Voyager has different settings you can customize, but it's super similar to RedditIsFun design wise and that was always my favorite client for Reddit. I like simple and compact.
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I despise the Android UI of Immich. It literally looks like an Android 4.4 app. I don't want that crap on my iPhone in 2025!
Voyager has the most polished, most "iOS" UI. The developer disappeared for days at a time before, so he'll be back again. /s
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