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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee to c/liftoff@lemmy.world

I was looking forward to trying Sync today now that it's live, but my enthusiasm was immediately dampened after seeing the "Data Safety" section on the Google Play store.

Liftoff has been great, and want to say thanks for making an awesome app. This will continue to be my daily driver.


Edit: for clarity, because the post got way bigger than I expected.

Sync looks like a fantastic app, and the dev/s should charge whatever they feel is fair for their efforts, even if that's through the usual ads + ad tracking.

My intent was just to post here in /c/Liftoff to thank the Liftoff devs for managing to somehow offer an awesome app without any of that.

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[-] donut4ever@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago

You have other free and amazing options that sync has no advantages over. They are all just as good, if not better.

  1. Liftoff
  2. Thunder
  3. Jerboa
  4. Connect
  5. Voyager (my favorite so far)
  6. Infinity for Lemmy. Early development, but still free and no ads

I don't get why I would go for sync, get tracked, watch ads or pay a monthly subscription!

[-] Ogygus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

What does liftoff have that the others don't?

[-] Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

For one, it handles account switching much more smoothly than most apps I've tried.

While viewing a post, commenting, searching, or posting, you can choose your originating instance from a drop-down. Most other apps have to reload your feed and/or relaunch.

It's been really helpful for me whenever an instance is bogged down or acting funny, and I can just hop over without losing my place.

[-] grinde@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Oh man I didn't even see that in the menu. That is handy.

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