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Appreciation post for Liftoff not collecting user data or injecting ads. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

And it feels like the server devs have their hands full, so features like this could be quite some time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm backend. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean... That's the only fun we have around here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's entirely fair. That's why I went more frontend. The tiniest visual tweak always ends in negative feedback. It's super fun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

moving subscriptions across instances

The language on Sync Ultra is "Import / export subscriptions (Easily move between instances)"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing more than what the free apis do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well yeah, but I think the apis are enough. There are already utilities using those apis to copy subscriptions.