Lemmy Finally feels usable! Thank you LJDawson
I’m in the same boat bro, Sync got me enjoying Lemmy soooo much more. I’m lemmying my life away, and loving it
Personally I was a Boost fan and I’m excited for its release for lemmy. But I’m using sync in the meantime and absolutely loving it. There’s a smoothness to this app, a refinement if you will that I couldn’t find on any of the other apps. The level of customization to make my feed my own.
Baconreader user here to represent!
I’ve been jumping between Jerboa, liftoff and now sync. Sync just has a smoothness that the other two apps don’t have, at least in my experience on my pixel 6 pro, scrolling and everything is butter smooth on sync, the others have some odd stutters sometimes
Totally on point… Like you, I am a boost user, but the experience here in sync so far is the best regarding all other apps… Either way, before this, I was using thunder nightly and so far so good… Now, I’m waiting for boost to decide for which one I’m gonna go as premium user…
same. but my ass is on infinity. can’t believe the day has finally come
It’s nice. I’m from Boost, but this works well
I’m just going to keep using Thunder until Boost comes out. Sync feels a little clunky.
This is only he third time I’ve driven stick, but this Ferrari sure feels clunky.
No. I used to use Sync for reddit back in the day when there weren’t better options. I’ve just moved to apps that have more functionality and more convenient gestures/UI like Boost.
As for Lemmy, I tried Sync because I assumed it would be better than the initial lemmy offerings, and found it wasn’t much improved from the early days of reddit sync and was lacking options and polish compared to apps like Thunder.
Not sure why you need to be condescending, trying to defend some app just because I said it was clunky.
Same as you… Although I’m jumping from sync to thunder every now an then, for me personally, the way comments looks on sync makes some visual noise, thunder in this regards looks better, but for every other thing, sync is apretty solid app…
Same! Can’t wait for Boost! But I do like sync as well. Feels like a solid app.
This is my first post too! :)
Now you are counted as an active user on Lemmy. :)
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
The app is beautiful. Former rif user and decided to give Sync for Lemmy a try and I’m not disappointed.
you should check out thunder i think sync is dog comparitively
all sync has going for it is a cluddered screen and ads no?
Same here
Does anyone know if we’re going to get the “Sync” feature back?
I really miss my offline reading.
I was just wondering yesterday whether the name still fits.
And 50% of the posts on lemmy in the last 12 hours are about Sync.
Hope we get some more diverse content soon lol
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.
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.
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.
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.
🤣😂
I have so many questions…
As soon as sync lets me post I’ll be posting things but until then imma just comment empty promises
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
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.
Used Sync for Reddit for 7 or 8 years, this feels like home!
It really does, but between the blackout and this release I realised how much I was using Sync.
I’ve managed to start putting my phone down and doing other things.
I can solve a rubiks cube in 3 minutes now! Because I deleted Sync from my phone.
And now it’s back on my phone…
Just think of the things I could have done.
Honestly sync has the little things I was hoping for.
I kept trying other apps for lemmy but none of them really felt right. I’ve been on lemmy way more lately with Sync…
Same, it’s now understandable and makes sense to my pea brain
Amazing app. Hopefully kbin support arrives soon.
From what I’ve read that all hinges on kbin making an API available for use first
Exactly this.
