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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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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

The Sync developer is obviously trying to do something more ambitious.

Hm, what exactly? It doesn't seem to have any particularly remarkable features 🤨

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

    Sounds like you didn't actually try the app. It's super fast and smooth. Lots of customization, great UI. I happily pay for that effort.

    Sync will surely make the lemmy ecosystem more attractive and bring in a ton more people, which is a great thing for everyone here whether you use the app or not.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    Ok, so I have been trying out Sync... and well, yes, the UI is slightly better, but most of the "fancy" stuff is only in the paid version... which is kind of steep for stuff I could wait a year or two without.

    Most interesting feature I've seen, is the search function, but it still fails in many places, so that's somewhat bittersweet. Curiously, it's one of the free ones, so... well, I guess I'll leave it installed for a while and see how things go.

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  • [+] -31 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    More people isn't great. It's how social media begin to sink. It was like this on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.

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

    Yeah, Google+ was such a hit thanks to its lack of users

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    There is an optimum. But, the more is the best isn't true for communities and social media.

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

    Tons of more options and a faster and smoother interface. And moving subscriptions across instances is coming. And it has cloud sync.

    But I agree, it's quite pricy for the extra bells and whistles.

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

    Migrating accounts across instances is a pending Lemmy core feature, the server part has to sort that out.

    Liftoff's interface seems fast and smooth to me, only thing I might be missing is some sort of "multireddits" or Mastodon-like "timelines" to sort things out a bit better, but using multiple accounts kind of works too.

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

    I mean it's probably better if the server has it, but it can be implemented client side too. All the information about a users subs is right there in the api.

    And it feels like the server devs have their hands full, so features like this could be quite some time.

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

    This sounds exactly like the conversations we have at work. Cries in frontend.

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

    I'm backend. :)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Can you PLEASE not send empty result sets with a next token then?

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