Huh. I always heard 3 copies, 2 locations, 1 of the locations offsite. Yours makes sense though.

I used Jerboa until Sync came out.

I liked it fine, no specific complaints I guess except that there was a lot of “jank” for lack of a better word. It just behaved weirdly sometimes, would be unstable, and had odd interfaces for certain tasks.

I would not actively recommend against it, but Sync came along and felt like someone refined Jerboa. It was an easy and natural switch.

I am considering creating multiple accounts to upvote this even more. Ok just kidding, but seriously if this is at all technically feasible it is by far my most missed feature. I often used my upvote history as a sort of very loose bookmarking system. I realize I can save posts, but I usually reserved that for extra special posts that I really needed to save.

The way Lemmy is set up I’ve actually struggled to find a post I upvoted just a couple hours prior. It can be very frustrating.

Frankly that stuff is already a huge problem and people should be louder about it. So many large companies want you to wade through 30 layers deep menus if AI chat bots before they’ll let you talk to an actual human to get assistance with a service you pay for. It’s just going to get worse and worse.

That’s not what the majority of people bitching that Sync is bad simply because it’s not FOSS would have you believe.

The controversy is just silly to me. I didn’t hesitate for a second to pay for the app. I’ve spent literally thousands of hours using Sync for reddit. $20 is nothing for that.

FOSS is great and all. But the attitude that everything should just be free no matter what is exactly why the internet turned into the data mining ad supported hellhole it is today. I am very willing to pay for things I spend time using. I honestly don’t understand thinking any other way.

Because “better” is entirely subjective and some people probably disagree with you that the options you feel are better are actually better.

Then you should use that, honestly.

For those of us who really like Sync, we really like Sync and are willing to pay for it. I’ve tried the other apps, they’re not bad but they aren’t as good. For me. Others may have different opinions and that is fine for them.

I’m not sitting here trying to tell everyone else that what they like doesn’t make sense. I’m just happy that what I like is now available. And I have no problem paying for it, considering how many hours of my life I have already spent using this app’s reddit version.

Yeah I’ve been using Sync for 12 years and Lemmy has already replaced 90% of what I actually liked about reddit.

The only thing I’m missing is team-specific pro sports communities. I think those will come as userbase increases though.

Yep, same

I hope they all succeed! Honestly I do.

It’s just that, well, I started using Sync morev than 10 years ago. Averaged 1.5-2 hours every single day since then. It’s very much home for me.

I’m very happy there are other choices and I’m very glad that some people prefer them. But once I learned Sync was coming to Lemmy it automatically earned first dibs on my loyalty.

I just want to be clear that I’ve paid for Sync in various ways I think 3 or 4 times now and I’ll gladly pay for it again. Jerboa has been at least functional (10x better than when I first started using it a few months ago).

But it’s Sync I want.

Feels like if it’s desktop only, these numbers really aren’t worth much. Isn’t a very large portion of reddit’s traffic on mobile? I probably spent less than 10% of my reddit time on desktop.

Yeah this is an issue not exclusive to Home Assistant unfortunately. I’ve been dabbling in home automation for years, and every single piece of equipment I have every purchased has at least once gotten flaky or straight up died for absolutely no reason. It’s just part of life with home automation it seems like.