Unless anyone knows another reason for this impressive increase in comments? Seems to roughly coincide with Sync launching. If thats the case, just goes to show the importance of good third party apps.
Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
EDIT: Looks like a confusingly labeled graph and I think this is total comments. I have no idea why that spike could exist though.
I’m gonna blame it on all the sync haters just commenting about how sync sucks and why FOSS is so much better.
I just don’t get the love for Sync. It was the best reddit app on Android like 10 years ago, but so many other apps surpassed it a while ago. Boost was smoother and had more options. As for iOS, Alien Blue and then Apollo were much better.
With lemmy, you’ve got great apps like memmy and Thunder that are imo better than Sync.
So you’re dealing with ads (or paying for closed source software) just to use a worse product that kinda goes against the FOSS philosophy Lemmy is built on.
Hey, you’re entitled to your opinion. I think it’s fair to say that most people here in the official sync community are going to disagree with you about it being a bad app. As for the FOSS philosophy, I genuinely don’t give a fuck. Cool that there are lots of FOSS alternatives but I like LJ and sync and have no issues supporting him. Nice that there are lots of options for different people.
I used Sync for Reddit for about 10 years but with the switch to the Fediverse I’ve adopted more of a FOSS mindset.
My initial reaction was vitriolic for no other reason than being disappointed due to my own expectations. I’m sure it’s still a great app and I still absolutely appreciate and respect lj; it’s just not for me anymore. But that doesn’t give me the right to force my opinion on others.
Ultimately I’m just happy we’re growing and I believe that’s what we should be focussing on.
I’m surprised that sync had such a major impact. Still happy that it did.
Yes it’s one person, the LTD is likely for tax purposes but it’s just him, no employees.
Yeah, but 2 million of those comments where “Yay, Sync!” and the other 2 million were “REEE, Sync!”
I actually switched to sync too. But still think the prices are nuts and they need to come down for me to pay for it.
Waiting for the one time payment to get rid of ads. Paid it on reddit, will (probably) pay it on lemmy.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/1677830
The money will come if the app is version 1.0 with all essential features. Not earlier. I do not like paying for stuff that is “promised”. Linus from LTT mentioned it many times and I stand behind it.
Same with promised DLCs and early access.
Wdym? There’s currently two one time payments. Ultra lifetime removes ads and, shockingly, “Remove ads” also removes ads
The money will come if the app is version 1.0 with all essential features. Not earlier. I do not like paying for stuff that is “promised”. Linus from LTT mentioned it many times and I stand behind it.
Same with promised DLCs and early access.
Would love to support the developer but definitely not at those prices. I block ads anyway, so I never see any.
Too bad mine does not offer paypal…Too god damn many people assume all folks have a CC…
I’m going back and forth still between Connect and Sync. Two reasons: can’t post from Sync yet and 2) lots of failed to load image bugs in Sync (which oddly enough, preview works fine for those images that failed to load).
