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Over a quarter of Lemmy users use Sync (based on a poll) (loot.buckodr.ink)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
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I did a poll and nearly 30% of the people who voted said they used Sync! It's stayed around that percent the whole time too!

EDIT: Here is the poll I forgot to put this here like five times lol https://strawpoll.com/wby5A21R1yA

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[โ€“] 91 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

After reading this I decided to try it out. Within 5 posts there were ads. No thanks, I'll stick with Connect.

Edit: I was scrolling everything and replied. I didn't see this was in the official community. My opinion doesn't matter in here. I think it's great that sync is successful and I hope it continues. So yea, keep on keeping on.

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  • [โ€“] 52 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    It's a single developer that should be paid for his work. You can easily upgrade to the ad free version for a few bucks...

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  • [โ€“] 42 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I've been using systemwide adblock on all my electronics for years now so I forget that in app ads are a thing. But yeah, I see your point. They do offer a one time purchase to remove ads.

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Me too, which makes Sync an endless scroll of black squares where ads should be. No thanks, Connect it is.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You might need a better adblocker. With AdGuard I see an empty box from time to time. It's in the colour of the background.

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That still looks horrible

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You can pay to hide it completely.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I know, i would pay for it (as I did buying the reddit pro and dev versions) but I don't consider that it has a fair price and I don't support subscription models either.

    I'm happy hopping between connect and eternity. Boost beta is coming next week as well, so I'm not worried at all.

    Scrolling through those black spaces is for sure a bad user experience for me, but to each his own

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago

    It's good we have plenty of options. I'm going to try Boost as well because it's the app that really hooked me to reddit and in the end it brought me to lemmy. Although Sync has been so great there's no guarantee I switch. And if Boost released earlier, I probably wouldn't even tried Sync. Let's see them compete. Or collaborate. Or both.

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  • [+] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)
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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'd pay 5ish bucks like I did for RIF, but for now ill just donate to Liftoff or other open dev without ad injection needs. Id rather buy Sync outright for a few bucks than have yet another ad platformed app running.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Suggestions on adblock for system?

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  • [โ€“] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I've used sync for almost ten years now... I think it's worth the fee to remove ads. But sure, there are ads.

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  • [โ€“] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's strange, both on Sync for Reddit and Sync for Lemmy I've always seen the space for ads, but never an actual ad showing in that space. So I just get random black spaces between posts

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    FWIW you can use list or compact view and it won't show ads (for now at least). Or just pay the pricey one-time fee to remove ads.

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  • [โ€“] 20 points 2 years ago

    That must be why I've never seen ads. I see people bitch about it every time someone mentions Sync, but have literally never seen one. Also the dev is a bad ass. I've twice mentioned bugs in release threads and he's fixed them within a few minutes each time.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    $20 really isn't that bad for ad removal

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I had to trawl through the cookie settings and manually disable every single option. After that I no longer see any ads, just a space where the ads should be. Annoying that I had to do that though, with Reddit Sync I'd paid a one off fee I think and never saw any ads.

    I get it though. I think this app is the devs main job, and the user base is significantly smaller than what it was for Reddit so he's having to put ways in to recover some income.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you click "reject" it does the same.

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