Not hating on open source, just let people use what fits their expectations and needs and stop deterring them with gatekeeping :P
UX = user experience
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
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except that being Free Software is WHAT matters, and why you would expect anything else from a Free and Federated network, I have no idea.
What you need to do is get the folks with "Good UX" to release their app under a Free Software license, not get mad at people with morals.
I mean or the foss apps could just be pushed to be better, and contribute to those apps as well.
I've noticed that the people losing their minds over Sync and solo software devs trying to make a living while keeping apps accessible, aren't the ones beating down the doors to contribute their time and skill and labor for open source. Most of them don't strike me as devs at all. I'm used to it. It's the lemmy equivalent of your one family member asking you to make them an app for free at a family Christmas.
People that are passionate about FOSS/FLOSS should definitely use those things. And support them financially. And contribute. But somehow the meta has become to dogpile on the first major third party app for our community that had a lot of users on reddit and which makes onboarding easy.
Personally I don't care. It's fine if you do. I think we spend too much energy squabbling over personal choices for very little results. We'd be much more effective if we focused on talking about and pressuring for regulation/policy changes instead of weighing each other down, especially when we are very like minded as a community.
So if anyone uses Sync they have no morals? Dude get out into the sun a bit more