Sync is just so much more polished and feature-rich than all of these already... It's exactly like how it was when it was for reddit, and it's just one dev! I don't mind at all paying for a fantastic app.

You guys are taking the justified corpo hate and extending it to talented individual devs just making a living.

[–] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (9 children)

FOSS isn't about "corpo hate". It's about freedom. There's a philosophy behind it. You can, of course, disagree with it, but I think you should know what you're disagreeing with.

If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the developer or “owner” of the program, that controls the program—and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.

[–] DzikiMarian@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In general I strongly prefer open source, because lots of propertiary software will try to vendor lock you and then extract money from you, when it's hard to escape for you.

In this case however I can change back to Connect or other any second, so amount of control this program has is extremely minimal and experience in exchange is better.

Informed choice is better than picking and following dogma, because dogma doesn't work in some cases.

[–] kagemushablues@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah F locked ecosystems. Anyone can walk away from Sync if they don't like it.

The philosophy of FOSS is very cool but for one dev Sync is way too much work to be doing for free. It has my support.

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