The more, the merrier!
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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Yea, I really loved RiF, so I hope we get Lemmy is Fun. Was a paid user and would support again.
1000%. I'm currently using Jerboa for Lemmmy, which is pretty similar, but I loved RiF's UI and general "no frills" layout.
If TalkLittle came out with a Lemmy/Kbin browser, I'd get it in a heartbeat.
Jerboa lacks a lot of customization features but hopefully it keeps improving. Sync was my absolutely favourite though and if LJ can replicate those features in the lemmy app it'll be a no-brainer for me to use Sync.
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The more the lemmier.
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may it be usable without play services
Wow this is huge. Should bring a ton of new users. Spez really shittin his pants now
Boost dev just reserved a lemmy community also. I edited my post with the links.
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This is really cool for Android users. If Apollo came to lemmy, that would be the biggest kick in the teeth for Reddit.
This is exciting! Glad to see Lemmy will be getting so much more attention!
Would be great to have other mobile apps fill the gap, so that the devs can focus more heavily on the main site instead of Jerboa.
FWIW, I highly doubt the devs are focused on anything but the Lemmy API right now. In fact, I also doubt they’ve slept in a month.
For sure, even so, it'll be good to have a really solid mobile app option that doesn't take any of their focus in the future.
Any app right now would be great. The web needs some UI tweaks. I hope Apollo comes to light.
How do universal subscribe links work?
/c/communityname@instance.tld
Just type it like that and if you click it you stay in your instance
That is an awful, but functional little hack.
It would be nice if !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world could be supported.
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it's disappointing seeing so many people here excited about something that is not (and apparently not planning to be) free open source software :(
I def prefer people contribute to the existing open source apps (or make new ones), but overall the more the merrier. I'm happy when anyone builds something for the lemmy ecosystem.
I think it's more of people wanting to stick with the developers and apps that they have used on reddit. Some of which have been using and supporting for almost a decade. It also means more of an endorsement for Lemmy, as some reddit sync users wouldn't consider Lemmy otherwise. Lastly, a significant number of power users (those that actually post, comment, and otherwise contribute) use third party apps over the official app, meaning that having support for these apps on Lemmy will hopefully bring over quality users and not just a larger quantity users.
That's my take on it, and I am someone very pro open source.
Man, I know it's a different app but I'd be so thrilled if the Boost dev decided to jump ship and make a Lemmy app. I tried so many reddit apps and Boost ended up being everything I wanted and more.
Agreed I tried so many reddit apps on android and boost was my favorite too.
SAAAAAME
That would literally cement my place here.
This should open the community in your instance
How do you do that?
This seems to be the official magazine: https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy
Confirmed by LJDawson: https://www.reddit.com/r/SyncforLemmy/comments/14ee1ul/sync_for_lemmy_is_happening/joui3ej/
Awesome. I uninstalled Sync after they stated it would be going down on July 1st because of the updates. It was the a great app. Looking forward to this.
This is absolutely fantastic news! Sync was pretty much my only way of browsing reddit for a long time. This should make the transition much easier.
BTW: Hi everyone, that's my first comment on Lemmy!
OH MY GOD ITS MY DREAM COME TRUE
God bless and welcome to the BDC
Can someone tell me what advantages Sync has/had over Slide or Infinity? These are the two apps I've been using.
It's entirely about your UI preferences, really. Most third party apps had feature parity, and the features they didn't have were more niche. You could find something each of them did especially well, but the vast majority of features an average user could want were present in all of them. Boost was my preference for a more graphical experience, and RIF was my default for its simplicity.
Sync has an extremely vocal fanclub because its dev is very involved with the userbase directly, but it's really not much different from the other graphical ones save for its MaterialYou integration, if that's something you care about. It's as respectable an app as the others.
If they had longer than 10 days to live I'd suggest trying each one to see which fits your preference....but...
As an extensive user of Sync let me say.
The ability to customize change layout, Twitter previews in posts, ability to open comments, subreddits in windows.
It's ability to cache comments/threads/videos. So, if android decides to kill Sync due to limited resources I can start where I left instead of having every thing reload from scratch. And lots more. The dynamic Material you theme and the beautiful UI should not be forgotten.
It's multi windows feature with its caching feature made it indisputable for me. I had anywhere from 3-6 windows or more active to jump back in anytime. If he brings that to lemmy it would make interacting with lemmy that much more awesome. Waiting to see what's he got in store for us.
Here's a screenshot to show what I mean by multi windows:
This is huge! Sync was my favorite reddit client.
im on iOS but this is amazing!! i was on android for a long, long time and Sync was my go-to. Thank you, Laurence :D
Doesn't look like Boost is happening as of now, as per the developer.
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It’s great to see adoption exploding like this. I’m expecting to see a lot more third party Reddit apps making the jump to Lemmy over the next few months. Exciting times!
Yeeeessssss! <3
I will only use FOSS apps for Lemmy, so if Sync is not FOSS, it does not get onto my phone. Only exception I might make is RIF due to my trust in Talklittle.
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I've been using Sync since 2016. This is incredibly good news.
Oh thank fuck
What is this? I'm not sure if I'm looking at the right "Sync" app, there seems to be a lot x_x
So exciting! Hope for other devs to see the positive reaction for this and consider making lemmy + kbin versions of their apps too!
This was my favorite Reddit app. So happy to see it coming to Lemmy now that I've moved on from Reddit.
Oh goodie! That's the client I use!
Or, used to use.
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