Just want to say thank you to Connect dev Kuro for making Connect for Lemmy. Amidst all this hype for Sync and Boost, Connect remains ad- and subscription-free without compromising quality. This app is bomb and I won’t be veering off to competitors anytime soon. Bonus points for being Canadian too! 🍁 Thank you!

Edit: adding donation link to buy dev Kuro a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kurononeko

  • KuroM
    431·
    11 months ago

    Connect dev here. Sync is a great app and I think the developer did a good job and it’s benefitted a lot in terms of polish from being a Reddit app for years. I feel Connect is more or less at feature parity while being just over a month old. Maybe in terms of differences I would say Connect will never track you, doesn’t include ads or data collection, and isn’t a subscription service. But that’s true for a number of open source Lemmy apps too and I also think Summit, Liftoff, and Thunder are really great choices too.

    • bigkix@lemm.ee
      81·
      11 months ago

      Thank you for the response.
      I am not so much into the mobile developing, but as I understand, you are not monetizing this app in any way, just taking voluntary donations?

    • VieuxQueb
      6·
      11 months ago

      I would say a major feature for me that sync has is to be able to hide viewed/interacted posts on button press.

      I also have bugs with connect not marking viewed/interacted posts as read.

      But I keep both in hopes that Connect get polished overtime, i mean it takes time to get everything right.

      I was not a Sync user on Reddit but LOVED Relay for reddit. Anything that navigates/looks close to Relay I will gladly pay for.

      • VieuxQueb
        8·
        11 months ago

        I just re-tested Connect and my marking as viewd bug seems fixed with the last update lol great!

    • anticommon@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      11 months ago

      Thanks for being an awesome dev, I did use connect in the interim before Sync. I probably will still use connect to some extent for other accounts, and definitely recommend it as an option for those who don’t wish to pay for an app.

      10/10

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