I keep hearing people mention all of these apps, and I've tried most of them (I'm on Android, and besides Sync, I currently have Liftoff, Connect and Thunder installed; I had Jerboa and the Voyager PWA, but removed the former due to bugs and the latter due to slow startup).

Honestly, none of them feel as polished as Sync. They do offer pretty much the same functionality, sometimes even better, but the UI and UX of Sync is just smoother.

Maybe it's just that I'm used to Sync after using it for reddit for many years, but in any case I thought I'd put this out there in case others were feeling puzzled as I was from all the mentions of other apps suggesting they can replace Sync without any quality loss. Sure, maybe not functionality-wise, but to me the user experience is just as important.

Edit: for reference, here's an album of screenshots comparing the same views in Sync, Liftoff, Connect and Thunder (yeah, I'm a fan of the compact list view): https://imgur.com/a/MvawTYm — there are pros and cons to all of these, but IMO the sync experience is the one with the best design and UX polish. Happy to hear your thoughts, though!

IMO both of these ended up being poor names.

"Open source" can be co-opted to mean any project with public source code even if it's not open contribution (think SQLite, and many of the projects effectively run by major tech corporations).

"Free software" falls victim to the eternal mixup with freeware, requiring the endless repetition of the "beer vs. speech" analogy.

I personally think "Libre software" is the term that best encapsulates the intended meaning while being unambiguous and not vulnerable to misinterpretation.

I wonder why you have a 🍑 app recommendation... 😛

What do you mean? It's right in the lead section:

Even with several details altered, Stoker's heirs sued over the adaptation, and a court ruling ordered all copies of the film to be destroyed. However, several prints of Nosferatu survived, and the film came to be regarded as an influential masterpiece of cinema and the horror genre.

Here's an album: https://imgur.com/a/hGpPp8h

Wow, these are really great updates! I especially like the improved UX around sign up and opening links on servers other than our native one.

But why is that such a great benefit? We already have a myriad accounts for different services/platforms; would this be merely a marginal improvement over the current situation?

While more smarts in natural language understanding would be welcome, I don't feel like that's what the assistant is missing the most. The biggest advantage that google assistant has is the potential for tight integration with the system (Android). IMHO it would pay off to make it more capable in terms of interacting with existing apps, setting up flows of actions, etc., than necessarily making it be able to communicate more fluently.

Are you nerd-sniping? Cause that comment is begging for an xkcd reference 😁 → https://xkcd.com/605/

And with a file browser sidebar 🤦

In the [Italian Competition] Authority's view, the commitments submitted by Google ensure significant automation of the procedure available for data export (Takeout). They also improve the interoperability mechanism that makes the data available in the Google ecosystem accessible to third-party platforms. Users and third-party operators will be able to make use of this mechanism until the release of a direct service-to-service portability solution, which, according to Google itself, will take place in the first quarter of 2024.

Nice! (emphasis mine)

Yes, it's on the sidebar:

OS: Linux, Arch (btw).

FTFY

Yeah, I've been wanting this as well. You may want to post this on the issue tracker, though, so that the request won't get lost in the feed.

I thought Sync for Lemmy was going to be open source... Or was that just wishful thinking by the user community?

I can do it later today if nobody else gets to it first.

Eu sei que há alguma aversão a posts feitos por bots, mas dá-me a sensação que não faz grande diferença quem é que inicia um post — desde que tenha interesse, a malta comenta e a discussão emerge. E com isso a comunidade vai ficando ativa e as pessoas começam a postar espontâneamente.

Penso que podia ser boa ideia experimentar com bots que criem posts com base em notícias de fontes pré-selecionadas (sem paywall, sem serem do Nónio, com cobertura de temas pouco batidos, jornalismo independente, etc.) Nem têm de ser notícias. Por exemplo episódios de podcasts como o Fumaça, o 45 graus ou o Inpertinente da FFMS também costumam ser bons. Ou videos de algum canal do YouTube, ou até sumários de links trending no masto.pt, enfim, pode-se pensar um pouco fora da caixa.

Aliás, que tal fazermos um levantamento de fontes que a comunidade gostaria de ver como origem de posts?

Eu pessoalmente venho cá primariamente como substituto do /r/portugal, e confesso que lá raramente postava, normalmente apenas lia, votava e ocasionalmente comentava. Por isso para mim o problema é o típico pescadinha-de-rabo-na-boca: a minha principal motivação é ficar a par das notícias e discussões da comunidade (e se calhar participar em algumas delas), e sem a comunidade a publicar cenas, também não participo tanto como poderia. Não tenho uma solução para isso além de se calhar convidar mais ativamente a malta do /r/portugal a vir cá ter... talvez sugerir a possibilidade de manterem o mesmo username do reddit, se não demorarem muito, pode ajudar? :P

Not at all! Just like with price, the difference between zero and one is hugely more consequential than any extra dollar added. Think of it: if you see a community with no posts in the last hour, or day, it does feel a bit deserted. Or a post without comments. By adding a post, or the first comment, you can be the difference for the next guy's impression, and encourage them to do the same, and then the ball gets rolling, and that's how you get momentum.

...king?