this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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What's with the insults just because people aren't using Sync? I don't understand the fanaticism of worship that seems to be around it that people react in this manner to those who decide to not use it.
Sync has an extremely fanatical fan base that orbits around its dev on their discord. It's like a whole community, they think of the head dev as their friend, and they get extremely defensive of Sync.
Because one time a a few years ago a bunch of users complained about a really bad UI change, and the dev was so hurt he stopped developing for a bit. So they took it upon themselves to be his personal goon squad, dispatch from the discord if someone shares a negative post about sync there.
That makes sense. Discord communities help foster more of a fan base with the increased level of interactions and live chatting people can have each other. So its probably much more personal to them whereas for us it's just another product to use or not.
Well, Sync brought more of the yucky Reddit people which were a minority in the first migration.
I use Jerboa, which is the best client for Lemmy, not Sync.
The best lemmy client is the one you like the most, I'm using Thunder, but someone could hate it and use liftoff or jerboa or something
Did it? I'm not seeing any more activity than normal in the last 24 hours, to spite that 10k downloads number on Google play