• @hackris@lemmy.ml
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    Please. For the love of god, NEVER use a proprietary app to use a piece of FOSS software. I think it’s kind of sad that we have this amazing FOSS social network and people use fucking proprietary software to use it.

    • voxel
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      10 months ago

      i use sync. there’s nothing even close to the quality of the client. (The onlt client that implements material you in a fun and usable way, sync is usable one-handed)
      I had been using Liftoff for a while (before switching to Sync as soon as it came out), which i quite liked but it feels a lot worse than sync

      • Arthur Besse
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        10 months ago

        (The onlt client that implements material you in a fun and usable way, sync is usable one-handed)

        Touchscreen keyboards and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

    • @pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2910 months ago

      Open-source it a better interface then.

      Until it’s as useful as at least Sync for Lemmy, people will use 3rd party proprietary apps

      • @hackris@lemmy.ml
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        810 months ago

        I mean isn’t Lemmy licensed under the AGPL? I’m just asking because AFAIK a proprietary client is not even allowed under this license.

      • @sir_reginald@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        There are a bunch of good FOSS Lemmy clients, which I’d argue are as good as Sync or Boost (I can’t know for sure since I don’t use proprietary software, I judge by the screenshots).

        Jerboa sucks, I’ll give you that. But both Voyager and Eternity are high quality clients that work amazingly well and are constantly updated. They have plenty of features and are very configurable.