I am curious why you like about it. I was a Relay user, and it was the only one that was really good for me. I didn’t care for sync, it seemed ok, but not quite good enough.
But after moving to Lemmy I went with Jerboa and Thunder. Both are good enough. What could sync possibly have that you pay for?
I know for relay I miss: auto mute. Everything is mute by default. Then slow and fastforward for all media, and a download button.
Sync is the only 3rd party app I have ever used that actually has fantastic material you design. I have a pixel phone and quite like material you look. I prefer all my apps support this superior look, other apps try but none get anywhere close to that amount of polish Sync has.
TLDR: Sync is fucking gorgeous and no alternatives come close to being as sexy
Interesting. I adding sync to my phone and tried it out. I dont like the large images, so it was good to be able to change it to small thumbnails. I am all about the text, not the pictures unless I click on them.
At that point I saw no real difference between that and my current client. Except the font was too small, but I am assuming I could change it.
The tablet thing is new though, I am curious about that.
not OP, but the main selling point of Sync is an absolutely top notch buttery smooth and good-looking UI, adhering to Google’s Material Design.
it looks and feels like a Google-made app, only it’s made for nerds, so it’s more configurable and maybe a bit bolder in terms of innovation.
in geneal this means: no loose ends, no jarring or lazy design, no janky transitions, and focus on ease of use (configurable gestures, bottom screen nav, presets, clever set-up tour, well thought out settings…).
of course you’ll always find this one niche feature that someone Absolutely Needs which it doesn’t have… and that’s ok. can’t have them all. but it covers 90 % of the bases and in terms of polish, you’d be hard pressed to find better. incl. Apollo, in my opinion (though it was some years ago that i used it).
It is comments and posts! How much buttery smooth do I need for that? I cannot really tell the difference at all between it and what I am using now. I tried it and was very underwhelmed.
now you’re like my mom asking me why i need a bmw when the old skoda drives just fine :).
yes, it may be insignificant details in the eyes of one and annoying deficiencies for the other.
in the official reddit app, transitions between detail and list are janky, collapsing comments is slow (there’s a lag), the post list jitters randomly during scroll, to go to my fave subs i have to open an annoyingly remote hamburger menu, I can’t set swipe gesture to exit a post detail. etc. etc.
Well yeah, that because its Reddit app, but who uses that? Shame what they did to Alien Blue, that was fantastic for the time.
I guess you are saying those things could be annoying, but the only feature I saw that Sync had over say Jerboa was peeking. I am thinking it is just familiarity for a lot of people.
Well yeah, that because its Reddit app, but who uses that?
everyone now, unfortunately.
am thinking it is just familiarity for a lot of people.
yes, it’s definitely that too. but i think in the context of “the official reddit app sucks” it’s also an obvious quality issue. which, in case of sync, was helped by a timely and well executed user migration to lemmy.
Whatever you call them, sugar-based popiscles have nothing on pieces of frozen fruit. You can even get bags of them at grocery stores and plenty of convenience stores!
This is how we got BSE/CJD in the UK, i.e. mad cow disease. Prions are really scary, if the moral weight of feeding animals their own species wasn’t already a good enough reason not to do it.
Honestly, I don’t know enough about pig behaviour to properly judge the practice. Maybe they’re happy to eat dead pigs, some animals practice… necrophagy, or whatever. But it’s not a great idea in livestock.
Hey, just incase you missed my reply as the post was deleted…
This is why people hate PETA.
Yes, PETA does some crazy shit, but as with many things there are two sides to the story which is difficult to see when you get bombarded by anti-PETA stuff as is common on e.g. Reddit.
They are the driving power behind all the misinformation and PETA-hate that is spread around. PETA is actually doing a lot for animal rights, that’s why they are such a big target for smear campaigns:
PETA kills animals because unfortunately there are no better places for them. Blame the puppy mills and irresponsible short term owners that give up their pets a few days or weeks after getting them because they had no idea what they got themselves into. Those people create more pets than there are places for them, so instead of having them become strays and further add to the problem, PETA put down those they can’t adopt out. Because PETA accepts all animals, even those that other shelters turn away in order to not sully their adoption numbers, PETA shelters end up with many more “hopeless” animals. See more here.
The case of the mistaken dog (and how PETA doesn’t steal and murder pets):
A farmer asked PETA to euthanise a pack of stray dogs that were aggressive and violent towards the farmer’s cows. Upon arrival, PETA found the pack of stray dogs, took them to the shelter and put them down, as a free service. Unfortunately it turned out, that one of the presumed stray dogs was a pet-chihuaha called Maya, that was not sitting on the porch, as often claimed, but running freely with the stray pack, without leash or collar or supervision. PETA fucked up, because they didn’t wait the 5 day grace period to give the owners time to look for and collect their pet. That’s why they had to pay a fine and apologized for it. www.whypetaeuthanizes.com/maya.html
The monkey selfie:
The monkey took the picture himself btw, the photographer just left the camera lying around. I am not saying the monkey should be copyright holder and it’s an open-shut case, but it does raise the question about the photographer having ownership over something that was voluntarily and independently created by an animal. What if a painter would leave his brushes lying around and an animal would create a painting? The artist actually sees it the same way and settled for a compromise with PETA followed by a joint statement. This was a landmark case in copyright law.
PETA equating milk to racism:
White supremacists actually use milk to demonstrate their superiority over “inferior” (their words, obviously) lactose intolerant ethnicities. That’s the reason behind their campaign on the issue.
Final thoughts (I promise):
PETA does a good job at raising issues and are one of the most successfull organisations to fight for animal rights. The granting of rights is the only real way to protect animals from unneccessary cruelty. Animal welfare will always be arbitrary, both in what species are worthy of protection, and the extent of protection they are worthy of. You cannot consider yourself an animal lover without recognizing the importance of that.
Sometimes PETA (intentionally?) overshoot, that happens when you try to move the border of current perceptions (i.e. animals are objects to be used for food, clothes, entertainment). I am not here to defend their tone or (lack of) tact, and there are a number of (sometimes downright stupid) PETA-campaigns I disagree with. I’m not trying to convice you to become their friend, but at least judge them for what they are doing, not for what they are said to do.
Most of the criticism of PETA you read on Reddit comes straight from the mouths of the Center for Organizational Research and Education (CORE), formerly known as the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF). It’s basically a corporate propaganda organization with donors like Tyson Foods, Wendy’s, and Coca-Cola. They also run campaigns claiming obesity isn’t that major of a problem and that you can eat 10 times as much mercury from fish as experts recommend. The vast majority of the animals PETA euthanizes are suffering and are brought to PETA’s shelter by their owners specifically to be put out of their misery, but the CCF distorts that into “PETA is stealing people’s pets off the streets” and Reddit gobbles it up.
The media also knows that PETA is an easy target. Years ago I read an article in one of the British tabloids (the Sun or the Mirror) with a headline something like, “PETA blasts child’s bunny wedding!” But if you actually read the article, what happened is a kid dressed up some bunnies in wedding outfits, the “journalist” reached out to PETA and asked them to comment, and PETA said something like, “we don’t support dressing rabbits in costumes because it may be stressful for them.” And that was the end of the story, but that wouldn’t get clicks so they distorted the headline to make it sound like PETA was protesting or attacking the kid on their own accord.
For the record, I think there are perfectly legitimate criticisms of PETA, like the sexist imagery they use in some of their ad campaigns and their welfarist (as opposed to abolitionist) approach to advocacy. It just gets to me that so many redditors claim to be rational and free-thinking but then read literal corporate propaganda about PETA and swallow it whole without a second thought.
Again, I hope you find out why you don’t like PETA (and can formulate some sort of coherent reason) other than the childish “because I don’t like them” kind of circular reasoning.
It seems to me like you’re against PETA for some reason.
So am I in ways, laid out in my info dump above. But, I GUESS it can be a long read for some people, and I wouldn’t expect someone who doesn’t explain why they don’t like PETA to have the cognitive development to rationalise why. This might all very well be going totally over your head. But that’s OK, others will read. :)
There is many reasons to hate them. The difference is, I don’t have to spam an essay on every vaguely animal related form to try to convince people. Funny that you already know that when animals are mentioned, PETA gets mentioned and people are smart enough to know bullshit when they see it. I hope you realize that you work for some really shitty people and get away. There is always time to make a good decision.
Me- ‘It seems to me like you’re against PETA for some reason.’
You- ‘There is (are) many reasons to hate them’
… Doesn’t state one…
Lmao can’t make this shit up, you’re all the same xD
You’ve got the same narrative as every other anti-peta melon lol. That’s whatever you’ve been fed over the years by the smear campaign, clearly sunk it’s teeth in deep to you.
I was there once, lambasting peta and other things without knowing the truth. You say ‘the difference is’, what do you mean by this? The difference between me and you?
Obviously for me the difference is I’ve done my due diligence recognising my morality and impact of my life on the world.
This is called “growing up”, check it out you might enjoy the philosophical dilemmas you can come up against.
It’s clear you haven’t got anything, you would have mentioned it.
If you took the time to read the info dump(doubt), what don’t you agree with? But be careful you’re not just an avid PETA hater because of what you’ve been told and are just angry your narrative is being challenged. (which is what I expect)
Forgive me for not giving you the respect you think you deserve, you’re not smart enough to have a back and forth with. You seem like a bot programmed to astroturf about PETA. Go on bot, let’s see an original thought, dare ya :)
Hope you realise one day why you’re against PETA.
Edit: oh god, I’ve just read your comments. I’m really sorry, I didn’t know you’ve just got absolutely no idea what’s going on in the world.
Take it easy mate, I won’t bother you again if it stresses you out, hope things get better for you.
My days on the Opie and Anthony reddit has given me good tone reading.
Fun racism and non fun racism. If it’s ugly in tone they’re racist. Remember Patrice or maybe Louis ck joking about how “jew” is both the normal term for Jewish people and the slur depending on the tone of how you say it. Reminds me of that but harder to tell with text.
I miss his FX show. He’s a great comedian. Glad he came out and apologized and even made fun of himself a bit. I don’t believe in eternal damnation of public figures like that unless people get physically harmed.
I never understood the backlash on this one. He had their consent, and he wasn’t even their boss or anything. He was also younger and not as famous. Asking coworkers for sexual stuff is weird af, but is about it. They consented, so I guess he read the room correctly back then.
They consented to what they thought was a poor attempt at humor from someone in a position of power over them, boss or not, and then often were blocked in the room while he did it, y’know, against their consent.
I really hope that’s not your only understanding of how “consent” works when you’re peer pressured by a hero in a position of power over you.
Never heard anything about being blocked in the room, I would appreciate the sources on this if you have them. Also, I would appreciate if you could elaborate what power exactly he had on anyone at this point.
No need to be snarky about my definition of “consent”, obviously we disagree on the dynamic of the situation, not the definition of consent.
In what fucking universe does the director of an absolute bomb have power over a lifelong actress?
Louie right after the disaster of pootie pie was quite a bit different than Louie at the height of his career.
It was a weird moment, and it is tangentially related since he is an example of a guy who got inordinately horny the moment he felt a connection with a woman he felt was a kindred, but what happened with Louie is quite a bit different than what happened with Weinstein or Cosby. It’s quite arguable that he had less power in that exchange.
That people mix these things up says something about society but I’m not sure what.
Oh man. That subreddit was a fucking trip. I followed it for a while, and couldn’t believe how the hosts would interact with them. Some absolute crazy people on that sub
Nah. Those who installed adblocker did this for a reason. They’ll put up with it for maybe a week at max before they get annoyed by the full-Screen hot singles in their area in tab 69 that plays music.
I switched to apple years ago because I wanted to know why I hate it so much and use Firefox ever since.
I usually don’t give a fuck about ads, but they’ve gotten increasingly annoying lately. Used to be that the popular websites were classier and less intrusive with their ads, that’s why they were popular. Now the biggest websites (most obviously YouTube) are the ones with the craziest most intrusive ads.
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