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It Took 23 Days for Lemmy Posts to Double from 1 Million to 2 Million (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=90

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[–] 10 points 3 years ago (12 children)

how does it compare to jerboa and connect, ive been meaning to switch full time to connect but im just used to jerboa now even though I miss that swipe to next post feature

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I've been using 5 different apps trying to find my favourite and I like Jerboa the most, until yesterday when I found Sync.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I tried Sync yesterday, but didn't have a lot of time to fiddle with it. What makes it so great everyone's excited? I checked it out and couldn't immediately see it having a clear edge over Jerboa and Connect (but it looked nice)

    I was further thrown off by the fact that if I wanted to buy it, I'd need to pay for a yearly subscription (and in that case it didn't look cheap)

    Honest question for who can answer

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Probably the settings and ui smoothness are what I like. I set view to compact, switch the default touch action, move the image previews to the right and turn on colored indent lines.

    After I open an image preview in connect it lags weirdly when I close it. Some of the text entry when commenting felt slightly jank to me, but I've been using sync for a long time.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Boost for Reddit all time user here so I'd never tried Sync before. When I took a dive to Lemmy, I tried Jerboa because it was the closest thing to Boost, great little app, but it think it needs some aesthetic polishing. The I tried Connect, and oh boy it's fast, functional, pretty (although it needs some design polishing also), and I made it look like the closest to the classic Boost list view.

    Then Sync for Lemmy was released and I wanted to know what was all the hype about. How could it be as good or better than Boost for Reddit?, I thought. Well, two days and I'm seriously thinking if I ever going to switch to Boost for Lemmy when it becomes available. Blew my mind!

    Yes, there are some things not quite there yet (not being able to submit posts the major flaw for me), but design wise is just aeons ahead of any other Lemmy app.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    It's just the new gold standard. Every app trying to compete for the biggest userbase will have to match or beat Sync.

    Apps that ignore Sync and just target at FOSS minded users will share the remaining portion of the pie.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    I only used Jerboa, but sync is far superior. Jerboa was so glitchy, it worked about half the time. Sync is very smooth and the developer is on it about fixing any glitches that may pop up. I've been using lemmy with jerboa since reddit closed the door on 3rd party apps, and I couldn't be more relieved to have sync back.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I copied this from another comment of mine. My advice is just give it a shot! The set up is super quick and the app just works.

    For features: incredibly customizable material design. Extremely fluid. A lot of view customization. Comment drafts are something I missed on voyager.

    Paid exclusive features: Cloud backups, user specific highlighting and theming, pull text from images, translate text, saved post folders (coming soon). No ads (yes the other apps don't have ads and are generally free).

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