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.
This is really cool for Android users. If Apollo came to lemmy, that would be the biggest kick in the teeth for Reddit.
OH MY GOD ITS MY DREAM COME TRUE
God bless and welcome to the BDC
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.
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/
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!
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.
may it be usable without play services
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.
This is exciting! Glad to see Lemmy will be getting so much more attention!
This is excellent news!
This is huge! Sync was my favorite reddit client.
Doesn't look like Boost is happening as of now, as per the developer.
Baconreader as of now isn't moving to Lemmy either ☹️ big sad here, probably my favorite interface.
sadly, you are right. But it doesnt close the door completely.
context: https://old.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/14ehiqs/_/jow1le5/?context=10000
That's too bad, I moved to boost from sync awhile ago because I didn't like the way the dev of sync was constantly changing the ui and then announced he was going to put some future features behind another (subscription) pay wall, despite being told when you buy the app thst you'd have access to all development features.
Yeeeessssss! <3
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.
This should open the community in your instance
How do you do that?
Any app right now would be great. The web needs some UI tweaks. I hope Apollo comes to light.
Oh goodie! That's the client I use!
Or, used to use.
Can someone eli5 this to me? Lol
Sync for Reddit is a popular reddit 3rd party app. Since Reddit is gonna kill them, the developer decided to do Sync for Lemmy instead, but is gonna take him 3 to 4 weeks to get some kind of beta.
We did it ~~Reddit~~ Lemmy!
what is sync for lemmy?
Sync for Reddit is a very popular Reddit client. This is the Lemmy version.
That's great. I hope more reddit clients become lemmy clients.
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Like to be notified so I can try it out. Maybe RIF could try one too. Call it LIF.
Or for Kbin and it could be called KIF
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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.
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...
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I've been using Sync since 2016. This is incredibly good news.
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!
By the way, is there a working Lemmy client in the iOS app store that is out of testflight?
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Of course Reddit wants you to either sign in or use the app to view the subreddit. I've never used any 3rd party app for Reddit, using Jerboa currently for Lemmy. Curious what Sync will bring!
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