We all ditch reddit because of how they screwed over 3rd party devs, and now one of the devs have worked overtime to create a similar UI* for this place, and now that dev is chopped liver. WTF?
*I’m just guessing on that part, because I didn’t try sync for reddit and I’m using the mobile web interface for lemmy for now, so I can’t really say.
All the people you find here fled from a proprietary platform that was abusing its position of power in order to profit off its users. While Sync for Lemmy is not in the same ballpark it nonetheless shares the same proprietary nature of reddit as it is a proprietary client that connects to a platform that is completely FOSS. So I believe it is entirely valid to campaign against the use of Sync for Lemmy and educate everyone about its dangers (loss of freedom, trust can’t be verified, abusive relationship)
“You aren’t welcome here if you aren’t FOSS.”
It’s pretty damn clear.
The choice of a “teletubby” is obviously meant to be insulting too. If the point were that it was just different, they could have used practically any other hero from the same viewer demographic, instead they went with one only watched by “babies”, and almost universally understood to be “stupid”. Ask yourself “why did they choose a teletubby instead of a ninja turtle?”
Like the other guy said, this is a popular meme format, OP didn’t draw this. They’re not saying Sync is bad, they’re saying it’s not FOSS like everything else we’ve seen so far
But I guess it’s a matter of interpretation. I liked the meme but I’m sending this from Sync ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The gatekeeping is so fucked up
office_thank_you.jif!
We all ditch reddit because of how they screwed over 3rd party devs, and now one of the devs have worked overtime to create a similar UI* for this place, and now that dev is chopped liver. WTF?
*I’m just guessing on that part, because I didn’t try sync for reddit and I’m using the mobile web interface for lemmy for now, so I can’t really say.
Same UI! I love it
Am I missing something? What gatekeeping?
The fact that people shit on every proprietary software saying FOSS is better.
While FOSS is definitely good for the consumer. Proprietary is sometimes just better in function ¯\(ツ)/¯
All the people you find here fled from a proprietary platform that was abusing its position of power in order to profit off its users. While Sync for Lemmy is not in the same ballpark it nonetheless shares the same proprietary nature of reddit as it is a proprietary client that connects to a platform that is completely FOSS. So I believe it is entirely valid to campaign against the use of Sync for Lemmy and educate everyone about its dangers (loss of freedom, trust can’t be verified, abusive relationship)
I didn’t join Lemmy because of the ideology behind the project I joined it because I didn’t approve of what the owners of reddit were doing.
If the Sync dev starts ruining the app I’ll get a different one for the same reason I made a Lemmy account.
You’re confusing the platform with the app the platform used, not the same thing
Proprietary software deserves to be shat on since it doesn’t respect your freedom.
And this comment just shows that Foss shits all over our freedom to use whatever software we want.
Yeah not how it works.
How is this gatekeeping???
“You aren’t welcome here if you aren’t FOSS.”
It’s pretty damn clear.
The choice of a “teletubby” is obviously meant to be insulting too. If the point were that it was just different, they could have used practically any other hero from the same viewer demographic, instead they went with one only watched by “babies”, and almost universally understood to be “stupid”. Ask yourself “why did they choose a teletubby instead of a ninja turtle?”
…because this was originally just a comic that was joking about a teletubby trying to join in with the Power Rangers that is now an exploitable meme.
Like the other guy said, this is a popular meme format, OP didn’t draw this. They’re not saying Sync is bad, they’re saying it’s not FOSS like everything else we’ve seen so far
But I guess it’s a matter of interpretation. I liked the meme but I’m sending this from Sync ¯\_(ツ)_/¯