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https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsync/comments/14e7ikp/lets_talk_about_lemmy/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SyncforLemmy/

Glad ljdawson is going to try to make this a thing!

ljdawson

My plan is to get an MVP out in the next 3-6 weeks.

What should make the first release?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit says r/SyncForLemmy is an unreviewed sub and that I should open it in their app.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lmao what? They can't even stick to their deadline and need to expedite the inconvenience?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh god, the loss of Sync was legitimately the straw that broke reddit's back for me. I would instantly pay Laurence for this

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

this is the way

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ha ha ha! Spez is really pushing it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Huzzah! I had only just voted earlier today in the sync subreddit for a lemmy app and already @[email protected] is on the case. You rock dude!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just hooked up messaging and username mentions.

Cheers!

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would it be closed source?

Good app, but with many trackers, and it wouldn't work without Google services one day (anti piracy measure?).

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd presume so based on reddit sync (monitization primarly from ads and iap). Apollo's dev at one point made another app (primarly for killing amp links) that was paid and open sourced it, however he had issues with low effort copycats.

https://github.com/christianselig/Amplosion

The bright side of a closedsource app is in certain cases it can encourage faster development since the dev can work on it part/fulltime (idk how syncs revenue worked).

To be clear the post above is my personal view (I could be completly wrong).

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, i have no idea what this is. Anyone able to give me a rundown

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Sync is one of the big mobile apps for reddit that is getting shut down on the 30th with reddit's API changes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's be patient with this and not give him a hard time. For those of you who haven't used Sync before, there was a major update a while back which caused strong emotions from many people and caused the developer to take a hiatus. Please be patient and kind and the result will be worth it!

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used it just some months ago and discovered the best thing ever, care to explain the drama?

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It had to do with how the cards were presented and how the quick menu and swipe up/down worked. I preferred the previous way but the new way worked just fine. Just took an extra click to use it how I wanted.

It came down to changing how it looked / worked after everyone was already used to how it currently was. People get upset for no good reason sometimes and this was one of those times.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this going to work for Kbin or do I need a lemmy account?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

+1 to this, would rather the app supports logging into a fediverse server instead of just lemmy

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy, kbin, Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Friendica... They all use different APIs, and those APIs need to be supported separately by developers if they want their app to be compatible with all of them.

ernest is talking about changing the kbin API to be more in line with lemmy's, which would allow apps made for lemmy to also work with kbin, but they wouldn't, for instance, work with (or possibly even know about) kbin's microblogging feature.

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