Lemmy Finally feels usable! Thank you LJDawson
And 50% of the posts on lemmy in the last 12 hours are about Sync.
Hope we get some more diverse content soon lol
There’s a golden ratio somewhere, it feels like Reddit has become overflown with posts and empty discussions, even on relatively niche subs. I could get behind a more sane approach to my web browsing habits but of course it will take some time.
We will. Lemmy seems to easily get flooded with singular stories. Eg whenever Elon comes up with yet another dumbass decision.
Yeah im honestly starting to question if its all organic, as its trivially easy to artificially inflate posts, and we even had a post the other week warning exactly of app developers could manipulate votes to get more people to use their platform and make purchases.
I would say its mostly organic since a good amount of discussion is negative feedback about ads and the paid tiers.
I’ve been using sync for reddit for years, and I used Vanced to keep sync for reddit working even today. I was interested in trying lemmy ever since it was announced that the popular third party apps were going away on Reddit. I might have started using Lemmy earlier if it wasn’t for being able to still use Sync for Reddit and knowing that Sync for Lemmy was coming out very soon. Now that sync for Lemmy is here, so am I.
There are clearly a lot of bots posting links but that’s not that different from reddit either. The real friends were the comments anyway.
I’d believe it’s organic tbh, I was waiting for Sync or Boost to drop before I fully took the plunge. There are probably many others like me for whom those apps and others defined the Reddit mobile experience and the other apps for Lemmy (or the ones I used at least) weren’t as feature rich so it’s an easy choice to make.
Or screenshots from Twitter/Reddit
Reddit is 50% screenshots of other social media too, so I don’t think that’s necessarily a Lemmy problem
The hilarious thing is you can’t post from Sync yet, only comment, so for every post about Sync someone had to use their browser or another app to post it.
As soon as sync lets me post I’ll be posting things but until then imma just comment empty promises
🤣😂
I have so many questions…
I kept trying other apps for lemmy but none of them really felt right. I’ve been on lemmy way more lately with Sync…
Yeah it’s pretty great. I’ve actually got to watch myself because I could see myself getting hooked in an unhealthy way like I did to reddit in the bad old days.
This is my first post too! :)
Now you are counted as an active user on Lemmy. :)
This is honestly a great experience, the app has integrated with my instance perfectly. Impressive work!
So what does sync do that lemmy on broswer doesn’t?
It’s a smother experience on mobile and more polished
A far more polished experience
I really wanted to just use the PWA, but Sync really is just so much better an experience right now. It’s smooth, but it also doesn’t lose my place in the feed every time I open a post. Trivial yet crucial!
Aside from the polish, it’s also the familiar UX that many of us have used for a decade. It just feels familiar & right now!
Ehh ill give it a look. I generally avoid apps that are just a website.
It just adds ads that you can pay for to have it removed. Sync is piggybacking on the opensource devs.
Gross, I was reading through this thread thinking about checking Sync out, but the idea of wilfully adding ads is so disgusting to me. The browser works well for me anyway, I don’t think I’ll end up getting an app unless it does something outstanding.
What a terrible way of looking at it. UX matters a lot when you’re using a platform, and some people are willing to tolerate the occasional ad if they get a UX they like and are familiar with.
I’m all for people liking a certain UI/UX and supporting the dev but seriously, putting ads on fucking Lemmy? This is just so wrong
What’s the point on not using reddit’s mobile app then? I was using a 3PA because I couldn’t stand the ads and now comes someone to put ads on an app for Lemmy jfc
Exactly. And with it, it brought an army of ad-loving nuggets (from Reddit I’d say by the way they reply so defensive to me, just look at the downvotes).
If instead they could appreciate and donate some of their hard earned money to all the devs of those instances… Instead of getting rid of ads on an non-ad platform (yeah, that’s dumber than Trump).
I’m 99% sure this army has been bought by Stync to promote their app. They’re making 100$ of those subscriptions. An army like this doesn’t cost much in comparison.
Baby needs his bottle
Lol. You go ahead and pay for no-ads on a non-ad platform and call other babies. At least one of us doesn’t have the intelligence of a baby, and you don’t know who.
You love paying for the trackers, I love the downvotes.
Cry more
I’m not crying. Just pointing out the hypocrisy of paying to get rid of ads on an (previously) ad-free platform. Pretty damn sure who to blame for that crap.
What the fuck are you doing on this community of you hate Sync so much?
That’s not hypocrisy. They’re not advocating one thing and doing another.
If you don’t like the ads don’t use the app.
Sync UI/UX are carried over from years of refinement as a Reddit client with full native controls. It now mostly just has a different API and service layer wired in for Lemmy. Definitely not a simple web view app.
Ill give it a look
Some people don’t like using desktop.
Most of us are here because we used Sync for Reddit for years and want that familiar UX.
But not all of us! Yesterday was the first time I tried it
same. but my ass is on infinity. can’t believe the day has finally come
I was using wefwef.app and liked the colored bars on the left when several users replied to each other. Now in sync these bars are the same color. Can I change this?
Damn, I forgot this was a think in Sync for reddit. Just bought the ads removal even though I cannot see any ads anyhow. The dev deserves it.
You can link to settings?!
I’m loving people’s reactions Everytime this pops up.
yes, hold down any switch or setting to get a sync-settings:// link in your clipboard to post, which is then clickable when in the app.
Settings shortcut: General > Community icons
holy shit! its that easy!
What a fantastic feature, never saw that in Sync for Reddit.
it was there but very rarely used, even on r/syncforreddit
I never would’ve thought of this, loving sync as a first time user
Sync was the only way Reddit was usable and now we get the same benefits for Lemmy. The dev actually listens to feedback and deserves every praise he gets.
this is the coolest thing i ever saw
I fucking love color bars and link to settings
how did you forward a link to a setting? what magic is this?
In settings, long press what you want to share till it stays link copied and just paste it in your comment box.
That. Is so fucking hot. 😱🥹🤌🏼
I envy you, mine crash right after login, seems to be related with the high number of subscribed communities.
How many you got? I have 200 and it works.
537…
Ok :) Yeah maybe it’s that I guess but not sure why the app would care how many they are.
Is not that it cares, maybe a rouge community, or a bad character, I don’t know, more people have reported this issue though.
How? 😅
Reddit migration hit hard.
I’ve got about 850 and it’s working great for me
Are you subscribed to any Kbin magazines?
That made conflict to me with another tool.
I’m pretty sure I am yeah, I think I’m subscribed to half the fediverse
Hmm, mine crashes too instantly with my “main” account that has several hundred subs.
And it doesn’t crash with one of my “clean” ones.Checked the crash report, it said “ArrayOutOfBound”.
Be sure to give your feedback on the Sync Discord! :)
Give Infinity for Lemmy a try. It’s just as good IMO, and unlike Sync, you don’t have to pay $99 to permanently stop it from spying on you.
“99 to permanently stop it from spying on you.”
No you don’t have to pay at all actually. In fact people can choose to pay for something they love that works better than half the Lemmy apps I have already tried. I will pay for something that works.
Open source doesn’t always mean you are any more safe either. I feel like this community thinks it knows more about security than it actually does.
Lemmy itself has encountered numerous cyber attacks.
And it’s taken sites down. It’s almost as if this community doesn’t know as much about security as it claims it does.
I was so glad to see infinity for lemmy. I used infinity for reddit and that had a ui that both looked good and was intuitive. I was super excited to see that there was now a fork of it for use with lemmy.
I’m in the same boat bro, Sync got me enjoying Lemmy soooo much more. I’m lemmying my life away, and loving it
Same, regardless of the “BuT iTs nOt FoSs” cries. You are free to use whatever app you want.
I definitely prefer FOSS, but hey if it gets you on the fedi, go for it.
One thing that worries me about Foss is the eventual lack of updates and potentially become abandonware. Many people mentioned that the Foss apps protects are a side project for most developers. They could easily lose interest or have other things happen in their life that take up more of their time.
These arguments are valid for closed source as well I agree, but this being the devs main focus makes me feel better about updates in the long term.
I mean the opposite can be said as well. Since open source apps are, well, open source, if the developer abandons them, someone else can pick up where they left off, but that’s not the case with the closed source apps.
Although the developer being paid to make the app can often make it higher quality.
Very good point as well.
It ain’t FOSS but it’s totally BOSS.
#NoFussNoFOSS
Can you recommend communities? A bunch exist but so many have little to no activity.
Let’s keep it alive fam!
