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I couldn't care less if foss app users or developers are butthurt because closed apps are suddenly available and gaining popularity.
Sync for lemmy landed and it has been more stable and has more features than any of the other lemmy apps I've tried.
Maybe if the foss apps were stable and feature rich more casual plebs like me would use them, but at the moment they all feel kind of broken.
Also, I would take issue with jerboa here. Jerboa is there but not Connect? Lol...
Yea I've tried every app and there's just nothing as smooth as the sync app. Tossing an independent dev $20 a year for something I'm getting thousands of hours of use out of is a no brainer. I give Netflix more every month and don't get nearly as much value. Too many people expect to get everything for free.
Exactly. And lifetime is just about 100 bucks, who cares. Sure it sounds like more than the casual $2 you throw at a random app to remove ads, but considering that I used Sync daily for ~12 years, it's really just peanuts in the long run.
I've bought a bunch of seemingly cheaper apps and then used them 10 times over 2 years and they ended up discontinued, that's like 20 cents per use.
I'd have racked up tens of thousands with Sync that way. Easily the most used app on my phone.