The second one might be related to lemmy.world being dosed. I don’t get any issues (anymore) on feddit.de

Connect is perfectly fine. I just used sync for a long time and like some particular things about it (e.g., being able to jump from one comment tree to the next reliably and quickly).

I’m fully for supporting ljdawson and this app - the former version of which I’ve also purchased.

So, I was really surprised when I saw that the gdpr consent form had some of the worst dark patterns with the opt-out “legitimate interest” for each party.

The first time I was so excited to have sync again, that I just confirmed selection. Stupid of me. Second time, I spent minutes opting out of each individual party’s “legitimate interest” - after giving consent.

No idea what this means or if ljdawson knew (he’s the dev though), but this really soured my experience.

I think I’ll still purchase, but this sucks.

Edit: I’ve since purchased the ad-free version. I want to give ljdawson the benefit of the doubt and maybe also chalk this up to the beta state. I just quite dislike dark patterns.

Your username is made on instances. So yeah, you can’t just switch. However you could just recreate the username on a different instance though.

I’ve had a weird system-wide stutter for months and the usual googling and troubleshooting didn’t help… omg. This might be it. Thank you Linus and thank you op.