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Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but does Sync seriously charge to remove ads that they added to browsing Lemmy in the first place? I get charging for Reddit due to the API, but I have a hard time believing the app is that much better than the existing FOSS apps such that the privacy tradeoff with ad trackers and/or the monetary cost worth it for, well, anyone really. Seems kinda scummy and antithetical to the philosophy that drives much of the Fediverse to me, yet I see so many people defending it in a way that reminds me of the rhetoric used to defend Reddit. Seriously, am I just a crazy person?

Im using CONNECT. its pretty good so far.

There's a line in the sand with security and transparency on one side and ease-of-use and convenience on the other.

I feel like most people don't really care about open source or federations..they just want an easy to access news/commenting platform.

It's a great examples of devs telling users what they want.

OP didn't come to hurt feelings.

OP came to hurt some butts!

I am so happy to finally have Sync again. Was always my most used app before the API death on Reddit. Always happy to support LJ.

Closed source apps do not allow us to verify they do not actually steal our data or profile us. Liftoff for life

I've found Thunder to be the best so far. But I'm holding out for Boost.

So many years wasted on reddit... only reason was that I liked infinity and it made my experience good...

Infinity for lemmy feels like rediscovering an old friend!

I don't get it tbh

It's an inconvenient truth for sure. I'm using sync right now because it's the best app experience on android at the moment if you don't need to top level post and because I used it with Reddit. This wasn't a big deal with Reddit imo, but using a closed source app to access an open source platform feels wrong.

Can someone tell me what "FOSS" means? I get it in context, but what's the acronym? I'll look it up later if need be