And to show your support donate to devs who build open source software and if you want a propraitery software just pirate it.

One of the examples is when people use close sourced lemmy apps more while paying them to remove ads while there are devs making open sourced ad free apps for free i know you may find the other apps more nice or conveniant but guess what if more people support and use their app the devs will work on it faster and gain more contributors and nothing right in life isn’t easy anyway.

There are a lot of good open source apps maintained by devs who is clearly doing it for the love of community and you are not strapped for options and there is some app that fits everyone . And remember those devs are doing this solely out of their kindness and love for community and we should return it as much as we can . Most of the times the open source , community drven versions are far better . These are just my thoughts and only some may agree and remember i am not posting these as facts just an opinion.

You guys may think this is a popular opinion around here but sync for lemmy community alone has more subscribers than jerboa , voyager , and eternity combined and those are very nice apps ( which users can choose from because it caters to different tastes and there are other open source ones too )and from the subscriber count in community we can kinda calculate that is the case of userbase for apps too i also saw a chart about userbase count but i can’t find it so i am using this example which i think is fair.

  • THE MASTERMIND@feddit.chOP
    1217·
    9 months ago

    You would be suprised just look at the amount of people sync for lemmy community have 3 open source lemmy apps like jerboa , voyager and eternity combined doesn’t have that much users. And i guess we can kinda also calculate the userbase from that statics

    • Blaze@reddthat.com
      142·
      9 months ago

      Sync had a large userbase on Reddit, it makes sense that people would keep using what they enjoy.

      It’s actually surprising and nice to see how popular Jerboa, Voyager, Thunder, Eternity (Summit is also FOSS I think?) became as they had no previous userbase.

        • Blaze@reddthat.com
          41·
          9 months ago

          It’s a fork, but not the same devs, so less strong community follow than Sync.

          By that logic, Voyager is inspired by Apollo, and get some of those people, but was not a direct continuation.

        • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 months ago

          Its funny the day infinitu broke i came to eternity. I had practically nothing change except now im free as in freedom lol.

        • THE MASTERMIND@feddit.chOP
          34·
          9 months ago

          Yes and jerboa’s ui look like one of tge reddit apps can’t remember which and voyager ui is based on apollo so all of them kinda has their own userbase .

      • THE MASTERMIND@feddit.chOP
        49·
        9 months ago

        Yeah but lemmy as the whole moral and ethics of lemmy is different i am still very very dissappointed . It’s like we preach but don’t follow

        • RandomVideos@programming.dev
          4·
          9 months ago

          Sorry, i just assumed everyone on lemmy started using it before sync got ported over

          When sync for lemmy was released, the majority of people hated the app because it was proprietary and it used google ads

          Even though sync is the most used app, the popular opinion is that sync is bad