I was looking forward to trying Sync today now that it’s live, but my enthusiasm was immediately dampened after seeing the “Data Safety” section on the Google Play store.
Liftoff has been great, and want to say thanks for making an awesome app. This will continue to be my daily driver.
Edit: for clarity, because the post got way bigger than I expected.
Sync looks like a fantastic app, and the dev/s should charge whatever they feel is fair for their efforts, even if that’s through the usual ads + ad tracking.
My intent was just to post here in /c/Liftoff to thank the Liftoff devs for managing to somehow offer an awesome app without any of that.
I think your comment brings up a good point about the intersection between what the old user base of Lemmy wants (everything is foss and transparent) and the newer user base that doesn’t necessarily not want that, but it isn’t as much of a priority to them as it was. And with the change in the user base you see a change in opinion towards deprioiritizing what the old user base wanted.
Dynamics like this are always so interesting, huh.