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Appreciation post for Liftoff not collecting user data or injecting ads. (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/liftoff@lemmy.world
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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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[+] 98 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (16 children)
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  • [–] 84 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 46 points 3 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.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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).

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago*

    Yes, just trying to say the years can actually be felt, and it's an almost unfair advantage, but fantastic for users. Also yes, it's indeed a full replica with all the features of Sync for Reddit, incredible for day one. Boost will probably have similar advantages.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    I prefer Infinity

    (Sadly the Lemmy version is not stable yet)

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  • [–] [S] 27 points 3 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!

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    What does liftoff have that the others don't?

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  • [–] [S] 24 points 3 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'd love this to be added too.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    thing is, with all you list (and sync) the key thing is there is CHOICE

    Nobody is forcing anyone to use Sync. If you don't like the model it uses, then use something else that better fits what you want. People in this thread are acting like its compulsory to use sync.

    BUT. what sync will do is bring people over from reddit. Sync for Reddit was hugely popular and there are tens of thousands of people that used Sync for years that had not shown any interest in Lemmy. Sync will bring some of those to this community which can only be a benefit to everyone.

    Don't like it, don't use it.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I tried adding it to Obtanium, but it says "could not find suitable release"

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    ROFLCOPTER

    claiming these are just as good as sync just tells what you expect the apps to do

    but what I've seen and (a lot of the other posters) is that sync is a whole lot smoother than all these apps and is the most feature-rich client

    if getting tracked is your main problem in using sync, just use nextdns or pihole to block connections to google servers or pay up (currently only using google, I wish there was some other way)
    I've read sync for reddit stopped connections to google after paying up

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  • [–] 3 points 3 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.

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