You do you, but realize it’s hardly for chumps just because you’re too cheap to shell out a couple of dollars for an app you’ll potentially spend tens to hundreds of hours on. That’s a very strange thing to call others chumps for.
No, I simply do not spend hundreds of hours on any phone app. Social media is not very important to me, and I would always rather use a web browser on one of my nice computers for a superior Internet browsing experience.
Look, I get where you’re coming from, but there’s a difference between a $965B corporation whose sole purpose is to harvest your personal info for ads, and a solo dev who just wants to make their (and your) Lemmy browsing a bit less painful. They’re putting in a hellofa lot of time and effort into this thing, which means a hellofa lot of time not spent making money at a regular job. I’m more than happy to kick a few bucks here and there to keep something like that afloat, especially given how apps like Boost and Sync make me actually want to spend time on Lemmy. Encouraging fediverse adoption is a win for the whole ecosystem. You don’t have to use Boost, and if you do choose to install it, you don’t have to pay. There’s an inexpensive ad-free version alongside the ad-supported one for exactly that reason. But complaining about Boost because you hate “social media apps” is like yelling “Fuck Nestle” at the 12-year-old selling lemonade from their driveway. Different scale, different purpose.
It’s fine to not pay, but I’m glad that some people do support indie devs when they can. The world would be a lot bleaker without little passion projects like this dotting the landscape and filling in the gaps to help bigger projects like Lemmy take off.
Idk, I’ve tried a few but still like Boost; just can’t get into Jerboa or Liftoff, which I tried. It’s mostly just their ad network being meh — though I mostly just get crappy fake gameplay ads, and not enough to bother me. I’m not even sure if they’re targeting me, cause if they are, they’re pretty bad at it.
Unfortunately I’m sure the app developer doesn’t get much say, virtually all mobile app networks are cancer.
When the update happened, The version of Jerboa in the app store and fdroid was not compatible with the 0.19 changes as you could not sign in, so I just switched to Eternity (which seemed to handle 0.19 better) instead of looking for a RC version of Jerboa.
Edit: There are no problems with the current version of Jerboa (0.0.55) and Lemmy 0.19.2, just to make things clear.
That is why i am confused. The person I replied to claims that Jerboa and Liftoff have a bad ad-network. While i don’t know Liftoff Jerboa for sure has no ads 🤔
I’m not so sure about clients that are specifically focused on security and privacy, however my general FOSS mobile app suggestions would be Voyager for a polished UX, or Eternity for a more native Android experience.
I wonder if they ever really have? When I was in school they taught you how to use a computer, but not what the computer was doing or how it worked.
I’m not too connected to the educational sector anymore but anecdotally it seems like becoming tech literate has a growing stigma (it’s always had a stigma). Happily ignoring what it’s doing while it’s actively abusing you.
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.
Yup, lemmy works fine in a browser.
Also basically no apps support mod and admin actions or do it weird.
I’ll say that DMs could be a bit better in the browser, but otherwise it’s fine.
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