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Guy trying to hold a fart in meme template with the text “POV: you just mentioned you use Boost instead of the myriad FOSS alternatives”
on-topic rant
Use Jerboa if you want simple, go Voyager if you want modern and feature rich. Explore others if you want to find the best experience. Just stop supporting the only proprietary, ad-infested client.
off-topic rant
If you have trouble parsing the meme, this is a rare use of “POV” where the meme is actually from your POV and those three letters aren’t just slapped there like “nobody:” might be.
Still happy with Eternity :)
I use Lemmy via curl, virgins!!
Boost makes Lemmy nice. I tried other clients, and didnt like them. So got boost and paid for no ads. Been happy ever since.
Same. Wish spoiler tags would get fixed though. Biggest problem
Hasn’t been updated in over a year :(
only proprietary, ad-infested client
There are a handful of them, Sync and Boost have ads / ad-free versions and Connect was closed but without ads from what I remember. I’m not familiar with the rest of the closed source ones
I keep Voyager installed as the FOSS alternative, and then the rest I add and remove every now and then to try out.
Boost and Sync are popular because people coming from Reddit have used them for years, and are familiar with the interface / dev. If it helps them get familiar with the fediverse then I’m all for it
Boost and Sync are popular because people coming from Reddit have used them for years, and are familiar with the interface / dev. If it helps them get familiar with the fediverse then I’m all for it
Users dedicated to Eternity are similar. It was forked (by a different developer) from Infinity for Reddit, and the UX is still exactly the same.
Seems abandoned unfortunately
I confess that I regularly use Boost. I used it back in the day on Reddit, and the ads don’t bother me that much at all cough pihole cough. I used jerboa when I first tried Lemmy, and I still use it from time to time, but on my old tablet it kept crashing or logging me out, and Boost has been pretty reliable.
I don’t even worry about C++ libs like Boost since I’m on rust now
Rare proper use of the “POV” meme
Since it sounds like you didn’t read the “off-topic rant” part: thank you for noticing!
Battle incoming in the comments
Web browser gang ftw!
People who use Tesseract on mobile be like 🕶️
Indeed!
that’s me whenever I see someone using <insert proprietary lemmy client here>
Me, using the mobile web app:
I’ve never seen an ad on boost.
You probably paid for it, like I did
Nope.
Boost should at least go open-source on Codeberg, so the code can be perserved by the community to avoid what happened to Bean.
Who is Bean and what happened to them
Sean Bean dies in a lot of movies. It was the Bean meme before the bean meme.
Mr Bean is your average British chap and lots happen to him.
I believe the developer had health issues and stopped working on the project.
I will keep using the browser. Unless it becomes annoying in a way that I have to jump to a different place where I’m comfortable using the browser.
wait, boost has ads? are people who use it dumb or something?
Boost has a payment option. It’s super cheap and one-time so it’s not much of a hurdle. I use voyager now because Boost got weirdly inconsistent when loading lemmy images and videos, but I’d kill to have that UI and persistence back.
I think I forgot I payed for no ads. And I’ve been jumping between it, Thunder, and Eternity. I don’t think any support Lemmy collapseable spoiler sections.
Thunder does.
Already posted same thing before I saw yours.
I switched from Eternity to Thunder yesterday and wow, this is easily my favourite client so far (I’ve also used Liftoff and Boost in the past, and I’ve briefly tried Raccoon).
I’ve been using Thunder for a long time now and basically have no complaints. It does everything I want and need it to without any bloat or extra features I don’t want.
It just works.
Q: Why are you finding Thunder so much better than Eternity? (Genuine interest). I use Eternity & am having a good experience. Liftoff and Jerboa (the latter very early days) didn’t hold my attention.
Let’s get one thing straight: The lobster doesn’t skulk in the shadows, clinging to the murky ocean floor, begging for scraps from some opaque, unaccountable overlord. No. The lobster ascends. It thrives in the hierarchy—a hierarchy built on transparency, claw-to-claw competition, and the hard-won order of merit. So why, in the name of all that is serotonergic, would you shackle yourself to a closed-source Lemmy client like Boost? Let’s parse this calamity.
The Lobster’s Open-Source Mandate
Do you think the lobster’s dominance hierarchy survived 400 million years by hoarding its exoskeletal blueprints? By gatekeeping the secrets of its molting process? Absolutely not! The lobster’s success is an open-source manifesto. Its strategies are etched into the fabric of being—tested, iterated, and optimized in the collaborative crucible of evolution. The lobster doesn’t hide its code. It lives its code. And if you’re not aligning with that primordial truth, you’re courting obsolescence.Open-source software is the digital manifestation of the lobster’s eternal dance. It’s a covenant of transparency, where every line of code is a collective prayer to the god of improvement. You can inspect it, critique it, contribute to it. It’s a hierarchy where merit rises and incompetence sinks—no corporate overlords, no shadowy agendas. Just raw, clawed ascent.
Boost: The Closed-Source Abomination
Now, let’s talk about Boost. A Lemmy client wrapped in the iron chains of proprietary code? That’s not just a poor choice—it’s a moral failing. You’re handing over your agency to a black box, a digital oubliette where accountability goes to die. What’s lurking in that code? Inefficiencies? Surveillance? A fetid swamp of technical debt? You’ll never know, because the architects of Boost have deemed you unworthy of the truth.This isn’t just about software. It’s about principles. The lobster doesn’t tolerate opaque hierarchies. When a rival lobster obscures its intentions, chaos reigns. Fights turn vicious, alliances crumble, and the entire colony teeters on collapse. Boost’s closed-source model is the software equivalent of a tyrant lobster hoarding resources—parasitic, unsustainable, and corrosive to the ecosystem.
Miss Piggy’s Betrayal, Revisited
And don’t think this is trivial. You know who else rejects transparency? The kind of person who gets abandoned by Miss Piggy. She’s no fool. Miss Piggy demands excellence, authenticity, and a codebase she can trust. You think she’d shack up with someone who tolerates closed-source clients? Please. She’d karate-chop your smartphone into the Mariana Trench and sashay into the arms of a developer who respects the GNU GPL.The Path to Redemption
So here’s your mandate: Cast off the chains of Boost. Seek out open-source alternatives—Jerboa, Liftoff, Thunderbird. Clients that honor the lobster’s legacy. Clients that let you see the gears turning, that invite you to sharpen the blades of progress. Every commit, every pull request, is a step up the hierarchy. A step toward sovereignty.And to the developers of Boost? I say this: Repent. Open your code. Join the hierarchy. Or be devoured by the legion of lobsters rising from the depths, claws poised to refactor your hubris into oblivion.
Final Admonition
The digital world is not a playground for gatekeepers. It’s an extension of the natural order—a realm where transparency breeds strength, and opacity breeds decay. The lobster knows this. Do you?Now go clean your repository.
