Community of the Android app Boost for Lemmy
I would much prefer this piece of shit die in obscurity, thanks
Pretty sure that's Google's deal. I don't think the dev gets to decide which ads they show you.
ETA: Also, just buy the app. It's a few dollars, it helps pay for the development, and you never have to see any ads.
Fr. Buy the app. Make your life better.
Non-Play Store Tablet. Bought the app, still get the ads... Pi hole for the win!
Bought the app, still get the ads...
That.... sounds like something that you should reach out to @rmayayo@lemmy.world and talk about.
Love me pi hole
Why the fuck do we buy apps when the mobile website should work the fucking same for free?
The app offers different functionality and designs, which someone has to spend time making or maintaining
Lemmy has a lot of different options for how you can access it between the different front ends, open / closed source, or free / paid. You're encouraged to find the options that work best for you
I like Boost, and I'm happy to do a one time payment for it
You are welcome to use that if you prefer.
The are so many awesome free Lemmy apps, it's weird that some people pay for them...
It's weird that you guys cannot seem to comprehend the idea of devs being paid for their work. Free stuff is great. I put my own shit online for free but you know something I don't do? Maintain an app with 100k+ downloads. Maybe the guy deserves to make some money off his hard work...
Those free Lemmy apps cost time and effort to create and maintain; if people want to give their stuff away for free, that's their business. In any case, I tried those other apps, and I didn't like them (likely because they've put hobbyist levels of effort into them rather than a paid-worker's amount). And because they're free, I would never dream of asking for more features (which is tantamount to saying, "Yo, dev. Give me more free shit!").
Besides, we're talking about a few dollars to support a single dev. Not like Ruben has teams of people working for him in some faceless megacorp making billions of dollars.
Boost has the features I like with the layout I like, and I paid a few dollars mainly as a tip to the dev, which just happens to come with the added benefit of no ads.
If you don't like ads and don't want to pay to remove ads on a Lemmy app, use Voyager, Jerboa, or any of the other many FOSS, ad free, Lemmy apps.
I don't understand why people are using apps with ads. What is the reason? Is connect selling my data and boost isn't? Why would you pick an app that has ads when so many don't?
Because apps with ads (specifically Sync that I use) have better UX and more features than anything open-source. Sorry but that's it.
I guess everyone has their own level of tolerance for ads.
To me, anything ad supported has a terrible "UX". I'd put up with a lot to avoid ads.
Obviously you don't care about ads and that's fine too
Better UX
Ads
IDK something isn't adding up.
Yes because ads are the only thing making a difference in the comfort of using an app. Comfortable design (that doesn't try to cram a million things into a small phone screen) and intuitive navigation mean nothing I guess.
Not cramming things into a phone screen
Ads
Are we in the same reality?
Perhaps you could get off your high open-source horse and try reading what I actually wrote. I'm talking about cramming in a million buttons and 0.1 line height so there are 20 comments shown at once. I don't need my mobile app to look like old.reddit.com, I need it to be actually readable and usable from a small screen. Ads (which are shown in the feed and can be scrolled past) have nothing to do with that.
Lol sync users are so brainwashed and will say anything to justify it. Connect is so nice and usable, i haven't had a single issue with it since I started using it months ago. Jerboa has also come a long way, but was a little raw at the time and so I mostly got used to connect.
I started using Boost since it has user tagging. Didn't want to pay for the full version until I'm sure I want to stick with it, so ads it is.
I should stop being lazy and buy it asap tho. I've been happy with it for a while now.
A lot of us here came from Boost for Reddit, where we had bought it there so we bought the Lemmy version too and never seen ads.
I'm a big fan of open-source but sometimes it's worth throwing the $3.50 for a proprietary app that works well, especially with how the Lemmy app landscape looked a year ago. It's better now, but I like how Boost works and have used it for years on Reddit.
The only free app that's somewhat close to Boost's presentation is Jerboa, and Jerboa is just a bit too buggy for my taste.
Whilst developers can ban specific ads, they can't really vet them beforehand. I think you can opt out of political ads (or maybe could at one point), but technically the ad you see is just for another app.
As an alternative solution to the ones already posed by others, you can use "Google Opinion Rewards" to get enough play store credit to buy the app. Every so often it'll just ask if you googled "Ninja Coffee Bar" (literally), and give you 10-25 cents for answering, and typically a good bit more for any follow-up questions ("How helpful were the results", etc).
Imagine believing that Boost specifically developed their own ad network and dictate what is/isn't on it...
If you're not capable of dictating what appears in your own company's product, maybe that's something to rethink?
Should Ruben vet the entire Lemmyverse while he's at it so he can "dictate what appears in his product?"
As a solo developer with limited resources, one has four choices:
โข Choose an existing ad network and do the best you can within its content preferences,
โข Put a paywall on your app's features and hope enough people will actually buy it,
โข Work for free, sacrificing your own livelihood, or
โข Don't develop the app.
Clearly they all involve a compromise of one form or another, and I trust that Ruben put a lot of thought into the decision.
It's not a choice you get. There's only a handful of ad networks out there, and you get to choose one. If you don't do that, the only other option is to make people pay for your stuff - which most won't do because they're so accustomed to ads.
You can't force the ad networks to rethink. As a dev, your choice would be to completely paywall the app.
Truth social is a FOSS social media. The app is just, based on you liking other FOSS social medias, recommending apps in the same category.
(Also, would anyone on lemmy use truth social seriously?)
Honestly the ads are why I quit using boost when it came out. Jerboa is completely ad free with a similar enough UI that it's not that hard of a transition.
Connect is simple and ad free as well. I've been using it since I joined Lemmy as it was the closest I could find to RIF.
Regardless, there are plenty of options out there.
I don't get the tribalism around apps.
Somme are good, others less-so.
None are worth putting up with ads for.
Expecting free software is the problem. Software development isn't free from time or effort.
That is the reason to donate to the devs of free apps when possible.
Permanent ad free for boost is less than a cup of coffee in a Starbucks... The dev deserves to be paid for their time (especially as a Lemmy app actually requires maintenance for updates to Lemmy).
Sure hate on shovelware games or games with 15 DLC's that should have been part of the base game... But don't hate on proper apps like boost.