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Some of y’all have no appreciation for independent app developers
I’ll take my downvote now
I think you’re confusing “independent” with “works for free.”
I haven’t switched at this point because Connect works well for me, but people’s work has value.
Really, it’s cool that some want to make their apps for free with no ads, but I’ll support devs who put in hard work to make a good app, it’s ridiculous to think that they don’t deserve some sort of compensation.
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.
My first ad:
Fuck why would anyone use this over FOSS apps that dont spread google adware/spyware
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.
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
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.
Thunder is pretty great, occasionally janky but it just works
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).
And thus begins my journey into lemmy
I’m really happy with the interface to be honest, I was using Voyager up until now but Boost is my new go to!
Alive as their abusive data collection.
Saw that, isn’t it strange to never have seen that from any other app then?
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.
Nice no privacy app.
Don’t be cheap and pay a few bucks. Disables all the tracking.
Behold the sketchy invasive advertising platform I have selected with which to extort you.
Entitled person thinks everyone should work for free.
False dichotomy.
Source code?
Using it right now. Feels smooth.
It’s like coming back home <3
yep, just finished setting it up. really excited
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.
It looks exactly like Jerboa, but its smoother.
I think it’s the other way around: Jerboa takes heavy inspiration from how BaconReader and Boost worked. I remember a while back switching to Boost because it was basically BaconReader but better and more modern and more reliable. I was using BaconReader in like 2012. Boost for Reddit itself was launched in 2016 iirc.
Based dev put all controversial and conflicting instances together in the default list.
