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A RULE SPY'S IN THE BASE?! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I searched up "Lemmy" on the PlayStore and noticed that Reddit appears right before the last lemmy client in that search X3 do u guys know if there r any other lemmy clients worth trying? I randomly felt like trying all I could find and for now I'll stay on Jerboa and the Web UI but I use Voyager too now, mainly for DMs

Edit: I apparently wasn't clear enough but I was asking for OTHER clients that aren't on this list X3 but feel free to share why u use an app in this list if u want anyway :3

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[-] [email protected] 65 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

why do people use boost? heard it has ads in it. not to mention it collects and shares data. it baffles me why anyone would use it over something like voyager. (also its a proprietary app for a FOSS project)

[-] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago

I use it, it's great. No ads since I paid for it. Of course it collects and shares data, by definition as it's a client to third parties platforms.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago

many other lemmy clients don't collect and share data like boost does, bud.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

I used to use boost for reddit so I was excited it was coming for Lemmy until I saw all the anti privacy aspects of it.

By the time it and sync finally launched. There were so many great foss apps for Lemmy that it made no sense to use one that tracked me.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

The tracking disclaimer is the standard message you get when an app uses Google ads. Pay for it and there are no ads, and by extension no tracking.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Then you don't understand the fediverse my friend. These "clients" are monetizing something that's free.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago

Nah it's fine for people to make money off of their work, i even support sopuli.xyz continuity

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No man I get the point of paid apps. I don't think it should collect and sell data. That's the poison pill with this whole deal.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's my understanding that Boost don't serve ads, and doesn't track data, if you pay for it.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Free software != free of charge.

Nothing about free software says you need to give it away for no cost, nor that anyone can't do it. You can charge $100 for a simple calculator program that is under the GPL for its code. Nothing is there to prevent you from assembling the code and making it yourself, or from the buyer from copying and sharing the program. It's just way way easier to show off the program for free as in price and freedom for most programmers.

It's why the people who made Debian/Slackware/Ubuntu discs could charge money for an otherwise free product. Because the programmers openly allow this.

And programming is itself labor, just a lot of free software devs don't worry too much about getting paid for it.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

Except for one special situation, the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) has no requirements about how much you can charge for distributing a copy of free software. You can charge nothing, a penny, a dollar, or a billion dollars. It's up to you, and the marketplace, so don't complain to us if nobody wants to pay a billion dollars for a copy.

The one exception is in the case where binaries are distributed without the corresponding complete source code. Those who do this are required by the GNU GPL to provide source code on subsequent request. Without a limit on the fee for the source code, they would be able set a fee too large for anyone to pay—such as a billion dollars—and thus pretend to release source code while in truth concealing it. So in this case we have to limit the fee for source in order to ensure the user's freedom. In ordinary situations, however, there is no such justification for limiting distribution fees, so we do not limit them.

Sometimes companies whose activities cross the line stated in the GNU GPL plead for permission, saying that they “won't charge money for the GNU software” or such like. That won't get them anywhere with us. Free software is about freedom, and enforcing the GPL is defending freedom. When we defend users' freedom, we are not distracted by side issues such as how much of a distribution fee is charged. Freedom is the issue, the whole issue, and the only issue.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I paid for it

the fact you pay for something that is utilizing FOSS software is crazy. its not like they are even hosting their own instance. they're just profiting off of open source devs.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Boost is the best app I've used. I'm not a fan of voyager

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

What aren’t you a fan of on voyager?

(I’m aware the android UI needs work, it’s on the list.) 🙂

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[-] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago

I use thunder because I contributed 5 whole lines to its source code 😎

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

:O Wow u made Thunder into what it is today?! X3

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago

was shocked to see boost and sync at 50 million downloads, but mil is just thousand in the language you were using haha

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

LMAO Srry about that X3 it confuses me too all the time cuz I usually have apps in English unless their main language is Spanish (so, always X3) but a few r in Spanish either cuz they wont let me change the language of just that app or I forgot to check if they do :p

[-] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

I use sync and I used it when it was a reddit app. It was funny to join Lemmy while hating on sync was trendy.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

I use sync too but I wish the developer actually seemed to give a fuck. Seems he took all the initial money and bounced. I know he comes and goes but people pay for this app and it should be maintained properly.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I'm on sync.. What are the issues? Also I think the team works on his sporadically, it's not a main thing, more like a hobby thing.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Do you remember RIF? And that time reddit forced all the third party apps to change their names by adding "for Reddit" at the end? So RIF changed the name to "RIF is fun for Reddit", that is "Reddit if Fun is Fun for Reddit". Good times.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

RIF is short for RIF is fun, not Reddit is fun because at a different point in time, Reddit didn't want other clients to have the word reddit in their name.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

I use Voyager because it was the one with the latest update on F-Droid.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Play Store? Boooo

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Boooo indeed :< But I've been looking into Obtainium and it sounds awesome :3

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

i use thunder and eternity, eternity's my fav bc of the ui customisability an seperating downloads into folders per community. but also thunder just cuz it looked cool an it works :3

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Thunder has an awesome sharing feature.

Eternity is my backup.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The Raccoon logo is awesome. 😎

Downloading now just because of that.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

I was using Eternity for a while, mostly because I used Infinity on Reddit and it's a fork of that. But it's still not feature complete and it hasn't been updated in ages, so I'm on Voyager now.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

I use Jerboa because it's lightweight and i have an outdated phone.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

There are more apps than users lol

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Been pretty happy with Connect coming from RiF

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I tried searching for keepass2android yesterday and none of the results on the Play Store were the app. There was one old icons pack, the rest was just something else.

Is that app shadow banned or something? I can open the app page if I follow a direct link

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Please use fdroid, search for apps there, copy the source URL and use it with obtainium

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[-] AlligatorBlizzard 8 points 5 months ago

I've only ever used Jeroba. It's what I picked first and I like how it's fairly simple and straightforward. I used Now For Reddit before the APIpocalypse and really liked that interface even if (or perhaps because) gif support never happened for that app. I'm open to trying something else though, especially if one has an easy crosspost feature.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I use Thunder and previously I used Voyager. Both are amazing open source clients for Lemmy!

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Its sad that apps build on foss services which pushes ad and tracking have more downloads than better foss apps

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

50 million downloads? Is lemmy really that popular?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No, it's 50 000. It says mil, which means thousand in Portuguese (and in Spanish and Italian, if I'm not mistaken?) imo it's confusing, because Google likes using 50mil when it's 50 000 and using 50M when it's 50 000 000.

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