Yeah, one glance at the terms of use had me uninstalling the app. I don’t feel like “decentralized social media” and “sale of personal data” pair well together.

It’s like people are trying to misinterpret.

Liftoff is strictly using Lemmy’s free API and for the developer 5 users or 5M users doesn’t make a difference to his expenses.

The Sync developer is obviously trying to do something more ambitious.

It’s great that we have FOSS apps that do a decent job but we shouldn’t look down on developers who put a lot of time, effort, and money into something expecting to make a return on their investment.

I don’t like data collecting either but I accept that if you want to offer a free version - it’s inevitable. What I hate is when you’re not able to pay for ads to go away.

But I might be biased as I’m a developer myself and would hate to put 8-9 weeks of hard work into delivering a great app and then get hate for wanting to get something in return for that work.

The Sync developer is obviously trying to do something more ambitious.

Hm, what exactly? It doesn’t seem to have any particularly remarkable features 🤨

Tons of more options and a faster and smoother interface. And moving subscriptions across instances is coming.

But I agree, it’s quite pricy for the extra bells and whistles.

Migrating accounts across instances is a pending Lemmy core feature, the server part has to sort that out.

Liftoff’s interface seems fast and smooth to me, only thing I might be missing is some sort of “multireddits” or Mastodon-like “timelines” to sort things out a bit better, but using multiple accounts kind of works too.

I mean it’s probably better if the server has it, but it can be implemented client side too. All the information about a users subs is right there in the api.

This sounds exactly like the conversations we have at work. Cries in frontend.

I’m backend. :)

Can you PLEASE not send empty result sets with a next token then?