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.

  • Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.eeOP
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    1 year ago

    For one, it handles account switching much more smoothly than most apps I’ve tried.

    While viewing a post, commenting, searching, or posting, you can choose your originating instance from a drop-down. Most other apps have to reload your feed and/or relaunch.

    It’s been really helpful for me whenever an instance is bogged down or acting funny, and I can just hop over without losing my place.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, this is really handy every time world gets attacked. I still have my world account set as my main, but it’s super easy to just switch over.

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      1 year ago

      Liftoff is great, it’s true. Sadly, it lacks the only feature I’m after : hide read posts on scroll. Saw requests for this not being answered, so I guess it’s not coming.

      Great app I admit, but a hard pass for me because of this.