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Appreciation post for Liftoff not collecting user data or injecting ads. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What does liftoff have that the others don't?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

For one, it handles account switching much more smoothly than most apps I've tried.

While viewing a post, commenting, searching, or posting, you can choose your originating instance from a drop-down. Most other apps have to reload your feed and/or relaunch.

It's been really helpful for me whenever an instance is bogged down or acting funny, and I can just hop over without losing my place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh man I didn't even see that in the menu. That is handy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, this is really handy every time world gets attacked. I still have my world account set as my main, but it's super easy to just switch over.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Liftoff is great, it's true. Sadly, it lacks the only feature I'm after : hide read posts on scroll. Saw requests for this not being answered, so I guess it's not coming.

Great app I admit, but a hard pass for me because of this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd love this to be added too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I want it to scroll to the comment in the post. I'm always manually trying to find the context of a comment by scrolling and looking.

I mean when you get a notification about a response and it takes you to the comment. It just shows you the comment. And then you click on Show Context. And here I was hoping it would scroll to the location of the comment in the post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Does Liftoff offer keyword filtering or blocking instances at the account level?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A better question is, what does Liftoff lack that others don't?

I miss being able to hide posts, for example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In Sync settings under View Type, you can enable the option to hide a post from the main feed view. In fact, there's a lot of additional features that can be enabled and customized, the options menu is enormous and it really can be customized to your personal preferences.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

I hear you, but nothing matters after ads, trackers, and money. Which is why I should also say that if you download and use TrackerControl from f-droid, you wont see ads on Sync, which is neat. My heart still lies with liftoff, they added double tap home button to scroll to the top and I about lost my shit in excitement, lol.