• erlend_sh@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    While I am strongly in favor of this, I suspect going fully open source might be ‘too much, too soon’ for ljdawson, as I’m not sure how used they are to open source practices.

    As a gentler stepping stone that doesn’t feel like giving all control away, I would suggest sharing the source code under the PolyForm Noncommercial license: https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0/

    In other words, a ‘shared-source’ license that makes the code available for review, contributions and even copying, but disallows unauthorized commercial use. This provides a middle road between the fully proprietary protections Sync is used to, and the new open landscape of Lemmy & friends that it is venturing into.

    For Redditors coming here who are unfamiliar with open source, here’s a comprehensive introduction for those who care to find out: https://blog.erlend.sh/open-source-explained

    In short, it is an essential antidote to enshittification.

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      1 year ago

      Is there a simple explanation of what Sync does that’s so great, that e.g. RedReader doesn’t do, and that isn’t fairly straightforward for someone else to add to RedReader if it’s missing?

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        1 year ago

        The simplest way is to download it for yourself and compare. For me, the layout, font sizing, navigation, and features gave me exactly the Reddit experience I wanted. I bounced back and forth between it and like 8 other apps and always went back to Sync because nothing felt more comfortable.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve tried RedReader when the Sync shutdown was announced, the UI is clunky and feels very dated. Sync is the best overall app I have ever used, and it’s consistently gotten better over time, and at times when I thought improvements were simply no longer possible. It’s that good.

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          1 year ago

          Interesting, thanks. I believe I have old fashioned tastes in interfaces so maybe that’s why I like Redreader. A quick youtube search shows several videos about Sync for Reddit, so maybe I will watch a few of them to see what I’ve been missing. I have some slight interest in Android programming, so maybe enhancing RedReader can give me something to play with.