Pioneer of the brave new frontier.
That’s been my experience. I’ve been using Jerboa, Connect, Liftoff, and Thunder before this, and activity has been slowly increasing over the past few weeks. Sync releases, and activity increased significantly within hours. Also, I have not touched another client since Sync dropped. I appreciate the effort of all of the other developers making Lemmy apps, but Sync is home. Nothing comes close.
I am so looking forward to this!
Here’s my example: I subscribed to Paramount Plus explicitly for Star Trek content. The week I subscribed, they pulled all of the non-Abrams films. So I got to watching other stuff. Eventually, they brought all of the films back. Cool, right?
So I finally get around to Prodigy, a show made for Paramount Plus. Two episodes in, and it vanishes. No announcements or warnings that that show was just going to disappear. It’s gone. Because “it wasn’t popular enough”. A show that only existed on that one platform was pulled off of that platform with absolutely no other legal way to view it. Content that I specifically signed up for that platform to see, and now I can’t… legally. Yo ho, yo ho, me hardies.
Go! Go! Rettsu go!
Shinku no Mafura!
Raida Janpu! Raida Kikku!
Kamen Raida, Kamen Raida, Raida Raida!
I can hear it in my head. Love that show!
Yeah… I considered it. And then decided that not only was Reddit no longer worth the effort, but that I actively want to prevent them from using any of my content for their benefit, so I overwrote and deleted my entire comment history. Now I’m waiting a few days to see if they restore them, because apparently that’s the level of bull that Reddit is now stooping to, and if I delete my account I won’t be able to nuke my comments again.
But I fully understand why someone would be inclined to do all of that. I very nearly kept at it. In the end, I no longer trust them at all as a platform.
I tried it and it didn’t work. I’m not sure if that’s because I only have the final updated version of Sync Pro. I was really disappointed.
It really is tempting to click on that $99 lifetime sub. I kinda feel like I got way more than my money’s worth out of Sync for Reddit, and I’ll use it for many more than the five years it would take to pay more for yearly subs.