Thanks for the shout-out.

But FYI I've run into some bugs that's preventing new content from being indexed. So you won't see anything new (from about a week ago) until I can find a new method to fetch new posts.

https://www.search-lemmy.com

I also tried building a pet feeder during the pandemic because the one I was using, the company decided to go belly-up. Never got a fully working though.

(At least that's what I've done open-source wise). I do Android development for my day job.

First I want to preface that I actually never used Sync for Reddit, I always used RIF but I wanted to give Sync for Lemmy a shot and see what it was all about.

A few things from my perspective:

1. So I'm using the combined BottomNavigation style, but finding settings or other options doesn't seem all that intuitive. Some of the things, like how to switch from Everything to Subscribed for my feed, I found by accident. Where to buy the Ad removal was also rather hidden, etc...
2. The elephant in the room... Pricing... as a developer myself I get needing to make enough money to sustain your projects, and I get that there's a lot less users on Lemmy than Reddit, but the prices for the subscriptions just seem outrageous. The problem as I see it, is that there's already a healthy competition for Lemmy Apps out there today and most are completely free and have no ads as-is. Some may even be operating in the red, but still $2/mo, $17/yr, $100/lifetime still seems a bit much for essentially:

• No Ads (I've got a PiHole, so honestly I don't see any ads at the moment anyway)
• Cloud Backup -- backup of what? My login? My app settings? The former seems concerning, the later I don't see much value as I only have a single Phone. If I get a new phone, sure it might save me a few minutes re setting it back up. There's not that many settings at the moment that needed customizing. And adding too many makes the app too confusing.
• Highlight / Tag users -- Ok this seems interesting but not quite worth $2/mo IMO.
• Translate text -- I can do this in the web app already just by highlighting a comment. But to be critical here, /most/ of the content is already in English, and I don't subscribe to any foreign language communities at the moment, so this at least doesn't have any value to me.
• Select text from image -- Ok, another interesting feature but still not quite at $2/mo
• Push notifications (coming soon) -- I'm really wondering how this is going to work personally, but this is a much needed feature, at least just for private messages. Probably the feature I'm most excited about.
• Import / export subscriptions -- This honestly needs to be built into Lemmy itself, but there's also a handful of user scripts and other tools other developers have already written that can do this.

Keep in mind I don't have a frame of reference for what the prices were in Sync for Reddit, but cut the prices to about a 1/3rd or 1/4th of what they are now and they seem to be more inline with the value that the app provides over the other apps.

3. The privacy policy. It's a lot longer than I'd hope for a Lemmy app. I'm assuming most of the data being collected is for advertising, but it's still concerning to me.

I don't mean to sounds critical in all of this. The app is probably one of the smoothest and best looking out there so far, but the value to money ratio just isn't there.

Playing devil's advocate for a bit... So these are just cross-posts. Which existed even on Reddit. ...I assume they weren't handled in any way in Sync or Reddit?

But let's say this is fixed... What to do about the multiple comments threads? How would you reconcile them with each other? Especially since the user can choose different ways to sort the comments as well. Would all of this logic normally handled by the Lemmy back-end now need to run on your phone? Also how do you choose which post / instance to actually display and which ones to hide?

Btw, I'm not trying to dismiss the idea. Just want to call out some of the technical problems that might come up trying to implement such a feature. As well as ask questions to try and determine exactly how such a feature is expected to work.

I'm guessing Samsung. Google seems to show a handful of posts online about Samsung users asking about it. Or at least asking what is it, and how to uninstall it.

Pixel doesn't seems to have it pre-installed anyway.

I can't say anything about other manufacturers though.

Not necessarily. I have several servers behind Cloudflare for free. I'm just limited on analytics, some advanced firewall settings, advanced cache management and maybe a few other features that I don't use. But the basic service is free.

https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/free/

With ActivityPub all of the primary ids contain the domain of the hosting server. So if you lose your domain none of the other instances know that you're the authority on those communities, posts, comments or users. So essentially federation breaks with all of the old data.

Unless you have an account there's no easy way to get access to the content on the page. Once you have an account there's technically nothing stopping you from just saving the HTML file to your computer.

Something else you can try though, assuming you don't have an account, is to just turn off JavaScript. If the site lets you partially load the content and then asks you to create an account to read more, they usually just block the content by having JavaScript add an opaque overlay. With JavaScript disabled, obviously it's not there to add the overlay and you're able to keep reading.

Check out my post history.

But https://www.search-lemmy.com. It has a few bugs but it should work for you. Especially if you set your home instance to something large like Lemmy.world.

Edit: if you want to help contribute: https://www.github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search

IMHO federation doesn't bring any real benefits to git and introduces a lot of risks.

The git protocol, if you will, already allows developers to backup and move their repositories as needed. And the primary concern with source control is having a stable and secure place to host it. GitHub already provides that, free of charge.

Introducing federation, how do you control who can and cannot make changes to your codebase? How do you ensure you maintain access if a server goes down?

So while it's nice that you can self host and federate git with GitLab, what value does that provide over the status quo? And how do those benefits outweigh the risks outlined above?

https://www.search-lemmy.com/

https://www.github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search

It only works for Lemmy, for now. And please feel free to post any feature requests or bugs to GitHub as it's still fairly new.

You can also check my comment/post history for more details.

https://www.search-lemmy.com

http://www.github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search

Just add community:[!nostupidquestions@lemmy.world](/c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world) at the end of your query.