99% of the sync spam Iāve seen has been from every community other than the sync community. I saw maybe 3 posts from there saying they liked the app and thatās it, and everywhere else I see posts from people having a fit over using or not using 1 out of like, what, 10 available apps? The spam really isnāt coming from the sync community specifically to begin with tbh.
Yeah lol. All the spam Iāve seen comes from the meme communities that had multiple posts complaining about Sync. Like Iāve seen more people complain it isnāt FOSS than anything else so far.
Only other major times Iāve seen it across lemmy was when it was up for pre-registration and when it came out. The former seemed to be spammed a ton because people thought it had actually came out and tried to spread the word & the latter was just people posting when it actually came out.
The complaining feels the same as when reddit mobile users kept laughing about 3rd party apps to feel superior in some way. I saw some actually comment how stupid some 3rd party app users were for paying for a paid app or subscription to view reddit when the official app was free.
Iām just going to ignore the rest of these posts after this and hide them. It all just makes them look obnoxious and full of themselves. Basically the type of shit that made me happy to leave Reddit.
My experience was personally the opposite, and Iām even subscribed to the sync community because I wanted to be able to see when it came out. Most of the sync stuff Iāve seen since it launched has been in other communities.
This shit wouldnāt be fun if we didnāt fight and shit talk each other from time to time. And I mean in general, not on the subject of the week. Iām the kind of person who will compliment a insult directed at me if itās creative or pause an argument for some āreal talkā. We are on earth for a short time, please donāt take any of this shit seriously.
Canāt wait for Sync to let me login to my kbin account too! Also, I greatly prefer kbins showing the upvotes and downvotes on posts, wish Lemmy had thatā¦
Actually true. Iād been wearing an orthopedical corset for a good chunk of my life, now Iām really tolerant to heat, like others may be literally dying while I would be alright.
It does seem like a large number of Lemmy users are elitist snobs. I thought this place was turning out better than Reddit, but itās looking like I was wrong. People like that ruin platforms like this and sour the experience.
The reason why many people swapped was because Lemmy harbors smarter individuals. I need to feel superior simply because I use Lemmy, Otherwise thereās no point.
FOSS and focus on privacy does that to some people, they feel superior because they worry about those things they see as being beneficial.
Iām sure many of the users from the before time were here specifically to not use a closed source, data gathering platform, so theyāre a bigger proportion of users than they were on Reddit and they tolerate the most extreme elements of their community that also happen to be the most vocal.
TL;DR: Reddit is for normies and now normies are on a platform where radicals were everywhere and part of the majority before they arrived.
Sometimes those extreme privacy preachers remind me of doomsday preppers.
I too reduced my data finger print, started using uBlock, thought more often if the data in a registration form is really needed for the service they provide (and didnāt register when in doubt), and so onā¦
I donāt have Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter (anymore), the only things I have are Reddit, Lemmy and Mastodon.
Still I donāt inspect every bit going through my network with Wireshark and PiHole to see, if some packet sent while watching a movie may contain personal data. At some point you gotta live a little instead of full-time fear mongering, doomsday preaching for the tech apocalypse.
I have reduced my digital fingerprints by a large margin with common sense, I donāt need a 100% privacy speedrun, what counts is that you do something. And the effects show, especially in the form of less spam and recommendations for items youāll never need.
Google knows which topics I search for, big whoop, wouldnāt be much of a search engine otherwise.
Not wanting to use any app that goes to a google server for a lemmy app is being privacy focused. Telling other people their preference in not valuing the same thing is wrong is elitism - saying that no app should do something, and nobody else should use an app that does that thing, because you prefer it that way - thatās elitism.
Sync and the people who like it arenāt invalid just because your preference is being privacy focused.
Along the same lines, itās totally possible to espouse the values of privacy to others without being elitist, as long as you arenāt talking down to other people or invalidating other peopleās preferences, because thatās elitism.
So? If youāre running an unaltered vendor version of Android chances are incredibly high much of this information has already reached Google, Meta or any other mega corp. Youāre shit outta luck here boy.
There are many entitled people here. Some of them are from linux community. Anything other than that is bad and 1000 posts related to that. Another is sync and other apps. Especially open source only good, closed source everything bad. My feed was full of that. Even though I am a sync user i feel angry when seeing so many non sense posts supporting and against that. Even some communities not related to these are posting this.
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