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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • What I find quite interesting is that sync is obviously very feature rich, it’s why it was many people’s preferred client.

    I just downloaded a few of the others and here’s a few things:

    • you can set different sort methods based on view. This feels important at the moment when communities are smaller. I have my subs set to New but Instance and All to something else
    • feed view customisations are super deep. Nice to have obviously but this is where all the inherited value from the old reddit app is
    • gesture navigation still feels better than all others but I might be biased because I’m used to it

    However, it’s undeniable that there are still some basic things it doesn’t handle perfectly. At the moment the perks outweigh the missing bits for me, BUT I found the pricing at launch to be optimistic at best, so like another commenter, I’m using the free version and blocking ads via Blokada and I’m happy enough

    It would be great if it did everything perfectly I agree but that’s true for all the apps rn






  • I went back to action launcher which I really like.

    I basically have one home screen with links to my most used stuff.

    It has covers which I believe originated here but was later possible on Nova. Basically you make folders of apps that you can tap to open, but you can set that to swipe instead so that the tap just opens the first app in the folder

    So for example I listen to podcasts way more often than music from my phone, so I have a folder for audio where I can tap to open podcasts or swipe to open the folder and get to music.

    I then have a slide in drawer that has the weather and my calendar and that’s basically it. Very rarely need to go to the main app list once this is set up. I will likely never change this as I don’t really use that many apps regularly.






  • There are two YouTubes. One is the “creator” YouTube, algorithms, numbers blah blah

    The other is the actual content creator YouTube. These are the channels that people actually follow. If captain disillusion set up his own RSS feed for videos, and I had the method to subscribe to it, I’d no longer need YouTube

    The argument that YouTube has the algorithm and recommendations etc is moot, that’s the same job that every network does, you could absolutely replace this

    The video content would have to be self hosted probably. How it used to be. So we need all these tools to eat YouTube’s lunch