Currently #10 free social app on Google Play.

  • @hperrin
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    551 year ago

    I mean the dev spent his time building it, why shouldn’t he show ads on it? Software = work.

    • @LemmyNameMyself
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      1 year ago

      Jerboa, Voyager, Thunder, Liftoff, Combustible and Eternity all don’t have ads

      • Norgur
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        621 year ago

        Because people donated their time to make them. You can’t blame anyone for not doing that.

      • @[email protected]
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        301 year ago

        There are free pc games as well, and paid ones. Free movies, and paid ones. Heck you can probably get a car for free, but most people prefer to pay for one. You can use the free apps all you want.

      • @wildcardology
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        191 year ago

        I’ve used them all and even considered staying with voyager. But after one hour of using boost I uninstalled all of them.

        • @seaQueue
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          81 year ago

          I worked my way through just about every Reddit client available for Android and Boost was the only one that wasn’t super annoying. I’m happy to support development of an app that I use every day, especially if it wouldn’t be available at all otherwise.

        • @[email protected]
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          No, we see it - it’s just dumb. Having a free as in freedom and beer set of clients is great for lemmy - but also having market driven clients available is healthy for catering to individual preferences. Boost existing isn’t your problem - clients that you like exist and please go enjoy them. I’m not certain why you’re lurking here, is it just out of masochism? The person you’re replying to at least put out helpful information about the application.

          More choice is a good thing and four dollars for an app forever is extremely reasonable.

            • @hperrin
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              1 year ago

              Then buy the ad free version or don’t use it. The initial comment here is FUD.

              If you’re worried about feeding the advertisers, then buying software is the best course of action. All software development takes time, and time is money. Sometimes, developers will give away their time for free, but demanding that someone do that is completely unreasonable.

                • @hperrin
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                  It is incorrect and misleading.

                  See: https://lemmy.world/comment/3977158

                  These are the kind of comments that make me want to stop writing FOSS. It’s more entitled than the people who come into my Discord and demand I answer their questions that are already answered in the readme.

                  • @wildcardology
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                    I feel like foss users are the vegan of software.