And to show your support donate to devs who build open source software and if you want a propraitery software just pirate it.
One of the examples is when people use close sourced lemmy apps more while paying them to remove ads while there are devs making open sourced ad free apps for free i know you may find the other apps more nice or conveniant but guess what if more people support and use their app the devs will work on it faster and gain more contributors and nothing right in life isn’t easy anyway.
There are a lot of good open source apps maintained by devs who is clearly doing it for the love of community and you are not strapped for options and there is some app that fits everyone . And remember those devs are doing this solely out of their kindness and love for community and we should return it as much as we can . Most of the times the open source , community drven versions are far better . These are just my thoughts and only some may agree and remember i am not posting these as facts just an opinion.
You guys may think this is a popular opinion around here but sync for lemmy community alone has more subscribers than jerboa , voyager , and eternity combined and those are very nice apps ( which users can choose from because it caters to different tastes and there are other open source ones too )and from the subscriber count in community we can kinda calculate that is the case of userbase for apps too i also saw a chart about userbase count but i can’t find it so i am using this example which i think is fair.
proud user of jerboa and eternity, they have their issues of course, but nothing beats the dopamine rush of getting a bugfix for something you reported!!!
Edit: In an attempt to make a joke, I exaggerated the impact of issues with jerboa/eternity, I decided to rephrase. I love the apps and the people creating them, their efforts is highly appreciated and I dream one day that such effort would economically viable.
Eternity’s dev has been doing a very good work for a single person
It’s also an open source program for lemmy. We’ve got a pretty tight knit community as a whole and condensing that down to coders, people with free time, people who want to make an app, and people who want to spend their free time making an open source app… It gets really narrow.
Anything we have is a godsend because we’d be using browsers on our phone otherwise.
What the fuck are you talking about eternity has small problems so does jerboa as with any other client like boost or sync but they don’t “suck ass” .