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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€“] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Like Lemmy is to Reddit, FOSS clients are to paid alternatives.

The only way I can see to stay clear of business practices I don't like is to support the FOSS model.

I'm not saying Sync isn't a good client, or that the dev has anything other than the best intersts of his users in mind, it's that at any point a decision can be made which you have no control over. Service models for software, for example, very rarely seems to be in the users interests.

Give the FOSS clients a shot, they are also constantly improving!

[โ€“] etler 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a big difference which is that clients have minimal lock in. Reddit has a monopoly over the community while you can easily switch clients with little lost.

[โ€“] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But switching clients means wasting your time learning a different app and getting used to different UI. I wouldn't like to switch from Connect at this point even though it's a bit buggy so I think client does matter a lot. Reddit APIcalypse was all about clients and if I didn't care about the client I would still use Reddit with RedReader. Or if I cared even less I would use Reddit app.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

FOSS doesn't solve the need to occasionally switch clients. FOSS is sometimes abandoned or something better comes along.

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