Stumblinbear @ Stumblinbear @pawb.social

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No one? What are you talking about? Have you read any of these threads?

I wouldn't say trash, but Sync is superior in absolutely every way

It's almost like the Lemmy audience is a thousand times smaller than the Reddit one and the dev still has bills to pay. Fewer users, fewer subscribers means you have to charge more.

You refusing to pay for services you use comes across as greedy tbh

Viewing ads is a form of payment. Deal with it, dude, or don't use it. It's not hard.

It's worth twenty dollars for a better experience with more polish than any other app. No question.

Yeah FOSS is rarely better than the commercial equivalent. Almost universally they're terrible in a hundred minor ways that makes them annoying as hell to use. The best FOSS products come from... Company sponsorship.

The code isn't run, so who cares?

The alternative solution is paid subscription for more features, and even that's hit-or-miss.

GA collects very limited information by default. You have to go pretty far out of your way to give Google usernames, posts, etc for ad purposes. It's likely the only thing they received was a device identifier generated specifically for the new install of the app. You're fine.

Hard disagree. I find Sync the best user experience so far, including the best looking UI hands down

He would still have to build an APK without ads just for you.

I'm a dev so can shed some light. It's likely linked to a service called Firebase, which gives many tools to track how people use your app. You can run tests against sections of your user base to determine the best way to apply certain features before rolling them out, as well as crash reporting and the ability to see "user journeys." These "journeys" are often used to determine how to better structure an app so that users can get to where they want to go more quickly. It's a way of collecting user feedback without asking for user feedback. It's incredibly useful for feature development and bug fixing

Now, given they have ads, they're probably using Google adsense which is likely linked to firebase, so Google may get some information on how people use the app in order to increase revenue per impression. This is largely automatic

Even with ads Sync is a thousand miles ahead of Jerboa in terms of usability and experience. I'll happily have ads to not have an objectively worse experience

Lemmy choosing not to serve ads doesn't mean nobody else is allowed to. I have no issues with Sync serving ads at all. Heck, I wouldn't even care if Lemmy served them. People have a right to be paid a reasonable amount for their effort

Only issue I've noticed so far is an issue I had to fix when I was working on my own app: sorting comments by hot breaks some nested comments. Yours, for example, is showing as if it is a reply to another comment, but the only thing above you is the root comment and three below yours.

Lemmy's API doesn't properly sort comment trees when sorting by hot: you have to sort them yourself. It's pretty straightforward, though. It gives you the path to the comment as "comment1.comment2.comment3" you just have to sort the replies by the path string

You'd get significantly more if you didn't take it in a lump sum

Place had a five year then a year and a half gap, so I wouldn't call it yearly yet

All of the stances taken by one side need not resonate with you.

I'm going to take the absolute worst possible view of the minority of the people I disagree with and paint the entirety of them as that thing

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I love my work. What I do for work is also one of my bigger hobbies. Software engineering is fun!

Authorities alleged Celeste Burgess had a medication abortion, and that it violated the state’s prohibition of abortion after 20 weeks. Celeste Burgess was around 28 weeks pregnant when her pregnancy ended, court documents allege.

Jessica Burgess, 42, was charged with the same offenses as her daughter, plus a felony count of performing an abortion beyond 20 weeks and a felony count of performing an abortion as someone other than a licensed physician.

You know that most western countries disallow abortion after 17 weeks (sans risk to the mother) right? The mother was also only given a felony for performing an abortion while not being a doctor, not for the abortion itself.

This also occurred two or three years ago, long before the states abortion laws were restricted