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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Edit:

Official Lemmy Community:

https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy

UNIVERSAL SUBSCRIBE LINK

This should open the community in your instance


Looks like the Boost for Reddit Dev just reserved a Lemmy Community...No official announcement yet.

Proof: https://old.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/14ehiqs/_/jouvuok/

Direct Link to the Community: https://lemmy.world/c/boostforlemmy

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea, I really loved RiF, so I hope we get Lemmy is Fun. Was a paid user and would support again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This is really cool for Android users. If Apollo came to lemmy, that would be the biggest kick in the teeth for Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

OH MY GOD ITS MY DREAM COME TRUE

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

God bless and welcome to the BDC

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow this is huge. Should bring a ton of new users. Spez really shittin his pants now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Boost dev just reserved a lemmy community also. I edited my post with the links.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

may it be usable without play services

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

request that he release it on Fdroid!

https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

it's disappointing seeing so many people here excited about something that is not (and apparently not planning to be) free open source software :(

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is exciting! Glad to see Lemmy will be getting so much more attention!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is excellent news!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is huge! Sync was my favorite reddit client.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Doesn't look like Boost is happening as of now, as per the developer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Baconreader as of now isn't moving to Lemmy either ☹️ big sad here, probably my favorite interface.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

sadly, you are right. But it doesnt close the door completely.

context: https://old.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/14ehiqs/_/jow1le5/?context=10000

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeeeessssss! <3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This should open the community in your instance

How do you do that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Any app right now would be great. The web needs some UI tweaks. I hope Apollo comes to light.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh goodie! That's the client I use!

Or, used to use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can someone eli5 this to me? Lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We did it ~~Reddit~~ Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sync for Reddit is a very popular Reddit client. This is the Lemmy version.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's great. I hope more reddit clients become lemmy clients.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like to be notified so I can try it out. Maybe RIF could try one too. Call it LIF.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can someone tell me what advantages Sync has/had over Slide or Infinity? These are the two apps I've been using.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been using Sync since 2016. This is incredibly good news.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By the way, is there a working Lemmy client in the iOS app store that is out of testflight?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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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