Some of y’all have no appreciation for independent app developers
I’ll take my downvote now
The same behavior happened when sync came out. Endless complaints about an app being from on app store with the option to pay the hard working developer for their work.
Do they go on public transit complaining that see ads there too? At least when you pay for the app the ads go away forever.
Not having read anything else, I’m guessing ads
My first ad:
Fuck why would anyone use this over FOSS apps that dont spread google adware/spyware
Because it’s not a choice of FOSS or not, it’s a in choice of quality of the app. Apps like Jerboa or Thunder are very far behind Sync and Boost. But if you enjoy those, then more power to you, and definitely no reason to switch.
I don’t know about that. I’m a sync user and some of the foss options are very good by now. I use sync because of familiarity and I like the dev so don’t mind dropping some money to support him.
Also a Sync user, for me the only option that came close to Sync and Boost for me was Summit, which people also did not like due to it being closed source.
Thunder is kinda close, as is Connect, but AFAIK Sync is still the only one to have any admin tools built into it (haven’t been able to try out Boost for Lemmy yet).
I was speaking more in the sense for general browsing. I’m not familiar with the admin tools for any of the apps.
Thunder is pretty great, occasionally janky but it just works
Thanks. Yea I love liftoff, I got no issues.
Not in my experience. Jerboa is close.
Because after a $3.49 payment, I never see ads again and this app is noticeably better than the Lemmy apps I’ve been stuck with until now.
I mean boost looks good but in what ways is it better than let’s say connect for lemmy for example. what the first thing that comes to your mind?
I’ve tried Boost quickly and ads aside I haven’t noticed anything than is inherently superior to connect which is what I’m using right now.
It just feels more solid. I like connect but it has rough edges that I don’t see in boost
I was just more amused that it was an Adblock ad. It’s a pity it is relying on hassling you with ads to get you to pay as I’d happily chip if to help with the development of an app I was enjoying.
It is hilarious, and I imagined a scenario of ad blockers paying the most for ads to appear instead of ads, like a protection racket
Adception - how deep does it go? Do other ad-blockers advertise in AdBlock’s site? Do they pay for ads to be alongside other ads for ad-blockers saying “want to stop ads like those guys? Then use us”. What if, ultimately, the only ads are for ad-blockers?
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It’s like coming back home <3
yep, just finished setting it up. really excited
I’m shocked and impressed with how much this reminds me of 2022 Reddit. I went cold turkey after the API changes, but installing this and setting up my old theme has been astounding.
Will I give up my FOSS Jerboa for this? I very well might
I can barely tell them apart, if it wasn’t for the
@instance.tldthey’re visually identical!
Based dev put all controversial and conflicting instances together in the default list.
Alive as their abusive data collection.
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Saw that, isn’t it strange to never have seen that from any other app then?
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He does have a community on lemmy world. Here’s the link: !boostforlemmy@lemmy.world
Edit: link
Just as a heads up, while Ruben was the one who made the comment in the screenshot, Ruben isn’t the one who posted the screenshot here in the comment you replied to 😅
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No thanks, I used to use boost for reddit and I loved it.
But now on lemmy, there are FOSS apps that are just as good I’d rather donate to.
The pricing is way more reasonable than sync. I’m still sticking with connect but at least this dev is not asking for much.
Long term sustainability is going to be challenging. The Lemmy userbase is way smaller than reddit’s regardless, and for 3.50 EUR one-off it will be challenging to cover future development efforts.
Idk about you, but I paid less than the max it shows for the price in my country on the Play Store. It may be down to localised pricing or maybe I paid during some promotion.
Congrats @rmayayo@lemmy.world!
Nice no privacy app.
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Behold the sketchy invasive advertising platform I have selected with which to extort you.
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False dichotomy.
Great news for Boost users! I’m still using Sync and Photon the most but love how many options there are for Lemmy.
Today I was finally able to download Boost for Lemmy. It looks really good. I inmediately bought the ad-free version. There are still some key features missing: the ability to hide posts, the ability to open community links and when I logged in for the very first time, the app semi-crashed and everything went dark. I had to restart the app and log in again. But apart from that, I really like it.
Nice, but seems to lack swipe actions, otherwise I like it almost as much as Sync.
Thank shit lol. I’m a kbin guy so I’m still gonna wait a while for the kbin API to come out before I can use it with my main account, but at least its out and I can use it with a compatible one in the meantime! I left Sync for Boost (with Reddit lol) and I’m glad this is here now.
Nice! Installed and purchased the ad free version immediately.
