I did a poll and nearly 30% of the people who voted said they used Sync! It’s stayed around that percent the whole time too!
EDIT: Here is the poll I forgot to put this here like five times lol https://strawpoll.com/wby5A21R1yA
I’m still using liftoff.
Anything in particular keeping you on it?
Yes. Laziness.
Liftoff is great I still use it sometimes!
Everybody is eating well with this rich ecostystem of apps.
Sync for life as well xD
me waiting for boost knowing it will probably never release until next year
Same, dev said end of August, but that didn’t happen. The guy isn’t very fast, but he is a solo dev and the end result is pretty good so it doesn’t bother me that much. I’m enjoying Sync in the meantime.
Sync dev is solo. Just sayin’.
I really like Thunder personally.
Same here, I thought it was a lot more popular tbh but I guess thats not the case
Boost for lemmy is now out, might wanna redo that poll.
Doesn’t even have mark as read on scroll. I think I’ll pass
Maybe, I don’t wanna spam though
It’s crazy to me how small the Jereboa usage is. It didn’t collect or share data and has a great interface. What are these other apps giving that makes you want to use them? Genuinely curious on what I’m missing out on.
Give sync a try
App seems nice and I have no complaints with it but it’s not FOSS and it has ads. It would be cool if there were easy ways to make revenue off of FOSS that dosen’t rely on donations so I understand why it would be proprietary.
You seem biased, ha
^ It’s honestly amazing! (not to say others aren’t, just my personal favorite of the ones I’ve tried)
I used Jerboa until Sync came out.
I liked it fine, no specific complaints I guess except that there was a lot of “jank” for lack of a better word. It just behaved weirdly sometimes, would be unstable, and had odd interfaces for certain tasks.
I would not actively recommend against it, but Sync came along and felt like someone refined Jerboa. It was an easy and natural switch.
Yes this is my main complaint too with Jerboa, scrolling just feels sluggy, I tried to look into the issue/source-code, but couldn’t find the source of it. When Sync came out, everything was buttery smooth and I was sold (though I’m not the biggest fan of the interface, maybe I’ll switch to an open-source client again, when there’s a more robust less sluggish client again).
I was using Jerboa can’t remember why I switched to liftoff but it is better I think.
I tried Jerboa and Connect after the Red exodus. They were both alright, but it was still too different from the RIF app that I used on Red. Sync really closed the gap, and feels almost indistinguishable from RIF now.
I mostly use Sync but keep Jerboa installed and every so often play with it as well. They are very similar, but Sync feels more fluent and polished, Jerboa has this “Android 2.1” feel to it
Well, “great interface” is debatable. It is decent, but far from being comparable to Sync. It feels like an Android app that hasn’t received a UI update in quite a bunch of years.
You can all welcome Boost for Lemmy now too!
Congrats! I’ll have to check it out!
Hello, i am curious to know where you have published the poll to collect responces, as it could wildly influence the result. Which instances, communities, external sites?
It was a “straw poll” (some external poll website) that was posted earlier somewhere around here. I remember voting on it
It was near the top of everything, or whatever we call /r/all over here, that’s where I saw it. I think it was in a technology community, but not 100% sure.
What app do you use?
I use connect because it feels the closest to RiF.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about connect!
Sync seems great, but it has three Google trackers included, so I’m not using it. Jerboa, Connect and Voyager are great, but they all have some downsides. My keyboard is weird in Jerboa, Connect does not allow me to sort by subscribed and Voyager’s comment-upvote system is a bit clunky, being hidding behind another tap. Also, Voyager’s UI generally looks like it’s made for iPhone, which is not what I’m looking for. But for the moment I’ll stick with it.
Just downloaded Voyager to give it a try, and there’s an “Androud UI” toggle in the settings
You’re right!
Oh man I didn’t realize the problem of Google trackers, I guess it’s time to uninstall it then, even though it’s really slick.
Ad free version removes the trackers
I have the Duck Duck Go app for Android and it has a tracker blocker feature. It has to utilize a local VPN though , so if you use a VPN you can’t use that at the same time. But, the app blocks known trackers for all apps. I love it
Using Sync and Connect, prefer the latter.
Anything in particular?
Not sure, just like the feel of Connect better (and it works on some older devices!)
Where and how has this poll been shared?
Right now Sync is at 29% which makes me think the results are skewed if the poll has been predominantly shared in the sync community.
This poll was originally shared in [email protected] then in [email protected]. Given how one of them is one of the 3 largest communities on the Lemmy network and the other is a community for another app, I would say those communities probably aren’t biased. There wasn’t even a link to the poll on this post until seven hours after this post was created, which was after most of the engagement with this post.
Maybe the percentage is high because it’s a good app a lot of people use
Call me crazy but Memmy has been pretty good.
Now why would I call you crazy? Memmy seems to be great, even if I don’t personally care for the IOS style of design
You’re crazy 🤪
I see that I asked for that :p
Lol
I use Sync now but it’s just not quite RIF. I’m sorry.
Three Cheers for Tildes is closer (same dev) but Lemmy is a bit busier.
