I was looking forward to trying Sync today now that it’s live, but my enthusiasm was immediately dampened after seeing the “Data Safety” section on the Google Play store.

Liftoff has been great, and want to say thanks for making an awesome app. This will continue to be my daily driver.

Edit: for clarity, because the post got way bigger than I expected.

Sync looks like a fantastic app, and the dev/s should charge whatever they feel is fair for their efforts, even if that’s through the usual ads + ad tracking.

My intent was just to post here in /c/Liftoff to thank the Liftoff devs for managing to somehow offer an awesome app without any of that.

  • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.oneEnglish
    410·
    11 months ago

    Morals have nothing to do with it. Im, quite plainly, saying that is is pretty stupid to put your data into closed source apps.

    Only ignorant people do that.

    The only reason I use my bank app is because its literally required to exist in America. If it were up to me, it wouldn’t be.

      • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.oneEnglish
        76·
        11 months ago

        Most of the world is by definition ignorant of data privacy.

        Absolutely.

        It doesn’t take a genius to understand it, just someone who is not ignorant.

        But, by all means, continue to give your data to whoever you want to.

          • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.oneEnglish
            36·
            11 months ago

            If you aren’t ignorant, than you are stupid.

            You know the stove is hot and are showing your palm into it. That isn’t ignorance.

            Most mankind is ignorant to data privacy, and that says nothing to their intellect.

              • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.oneEnglish
                26·
                11 months ago

                See, you are trying to debate whether the stove top is hot or not.

                I’m not going to debate that because its quite apparent what these companies, and by extensions governments, do with this data.

                You are allowed to touch a hot stove. You are not allowed to debate whether or not it’s hot.

                Like I said, touch that stove, knowing it’s hot if you want, I can’t stop you.

    • Takumidesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      But you don’t actually know what code is running on a given lemmy server. Just because the source is open, doesn’t mean that any given server is using the reference implementation, admins could be running whatever they want on their backend.

      • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.oneEnglish
        52·
        11 months ago

        That’s why it’s imperative that the app which communicates with the server via Lemmy’s api, IS open and auditable. That’s how we prevent maligned actors from using data they shouldn’t have. You can audit what is being sent from an open source app.