I don’t care about it being open source.

LJD has proven to be an excellent dev, who also listens to his users. He’s built to a lot of trust as a result.

If he sold Sync, then my answer might be different.

My wallet is ready to buy whatever the highest tier is. Based on my Sync for Reddit experience it will be well worth it!

Sync was not only my favourite Reddit app, it was probably my favourite app.

Its UI was so usable that I found myself using the same gestures and taps to navigate through other apps and being disappointed when that didn’t work.

It was that good.

Bring it on!

That’s going to be Sync for Lemmy??

That would awesome. I was a Sync for Reddit user and it was probably the best app I’ve ever used from a user experience point of view.

Microsoft Fight Simulator 2020

Learn how to fight in photorealistic settings all around the world!

That’s an interesting point, I hadn’t tried doing that yet. Seems fairly fixable though. I guess all this stuff will start to get better soon.

I don’t properly understand how all of this works.

But signing up to kbin on the weekend was just like signing up for anything else online.

And once I did, replying to posts - like this one - was more or less the same as replying on any other discussion forum.

So…I don’t get it, what’s so hard? Do you really need to understand the technical details underneath to start using this place?

That said, I would like to grasp this whole thing a little better. But I figured the best way to do that is to jump straight in and go from there! :)

I’m tempted to have a look at this.

I have an iPad pro with the M1 chip. It’s super capable in terms of specs and yet I find myself able to do things on my S23 Ultra that I can’t with the iPad. Why does my phone feel closer to a laptop replacement than my tablet!?

It’s frustrating at times. Simple things like the file system for example really annoy me.

It’s like the hardware is really held back by the software. If iPad OS doesn’t improve massively soon, I’m selling it and going all Samsung.

An all time classic!

https://youtu.be/ToKcmnrE5oY

Are you serious? That’s pretty funny!

Yes, Reddit is a big dataset and yes, Reddit deserves to make some money off that if other organisations are going to scrape that data, for AI or anything else.

That’s what they should be blocking and monetizing. Not those few users using 3rd party apps. Those folks (posters, mods) are amongst the ones creating that data set for Reddit, free of charge.

They are right about needing to make money to continue as a successful business. But they are doing it the wrong way and alienating their key assets.

Which is why I’m here :)

Now that Sync for Reddit is being discontinued I’m dropping Reddit.

I saw a good write-up about kbin, so I signed up about a day ago and have been liking what I see - although it’s obviously still in its early stages.

I don’t know much about Lemmy and Federation, but is it a bit like the Newsgroups of old (Usenet), where you joined a Usenet service and any posts on any service propagated across all servers?