• hackris@lemmy.ml
    4·
    10 months ago

    Please. For the love of god, NEVER use a proprietary app to use a piece of FOSS software. I think it’s kind of sad that we have this amazing FOSS social network and people use fucking proprietary software to use it.

    • voxel@sopuli.xyz
      01·
      10 months ago

      i use sync. there’s nothing even close to the quality of the client. (The onlt client that implements material you in a fun and usable way, sync is usable one-handed)
      I had been using Liftoff for a while (before switching to Sync as soon as it came out), which i quite liked but it feels a lot worse than sync

    • pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      01·
      10 months ago

      Open-source it a better interface then.

      Until it’s as useful as at least Sync for Lemmy, people will use 3rd party proprietary apps

  • Rubén@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 months ago

    Boost dev here. There should be an Ad icon on the top right to report the ad. Not sure why it is not showing in this case. I will try to block those ads in the AdMob console. Edit: Done

    • Danny M@lemmy.escapebigtech.info
      0·
      10 months ago

      I’m not a boost user, but why does boost have ads exactly? Why don’t you just ask users to buy a license a la grayjay? Make it 0.99 or less. This has a few advantages:

      • You’ll make more per user than you ever will with ads
      • Users won’t be tracked endlessly
      • It’s good PR for the app

      Also quick question, where is the source code for Boost? I can’t seem to find it

        • Danny M@lemmy.escapebigtech.info
          01·
          10 months ago

          I don’t think Boost is open source

          oh, so that’s why it has ads, they don’t care about their users… alright… I’m not interested in this conversation anymore

          • HaruAjsuru@lemmy.world
            1·
            10 months ago

            This is a bad mindset. Even though FOSS software is a good thing, but there is nothing wrong to make money from their hard work, you cannot and should not force developers to work for free if they don’t want to.

            If you want free software then there are FOSS alternative options out there and nobody forces you to use Boost.

  • imkali@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    10 months ago

    Jerboa (FOSS. Play Store + F-Droid)

    Voyager (FOSS. Play Store + F-Droid + PWA + iOS App Store)

    Thunder (FOSS. Play Store + IzzyOnDroid + iOS App Store)

    Eternity (FOSS. Play Store + F-Droid)

    edit: formatting

    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      As a user of RedReader since launch a decade+ ago, I dig Thunder. Simple, no bullshit, logical settings.

  • ono@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I start with whatever is on F-Droid, and narrow it down from there.

    Jerboa was the only option there until recently. I see Voyager and Eternity are there now. I’ll have to give them a try.

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
      1·
      10 months ago

      I don’t undestand the need to have an app for stuff that works just fine on browser. In my books less apps is always better. The desktop and mobile version of Lemmy on browser gets the job done perfectly and is way more polished looking aswell.