The more, the merrier!
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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Yea, I really loved RiF, so I hope we get Lemmy is Fun. Was a paid user and would support again.
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.
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.
Infinity for Reddit was my 3rd Party app of choice, boy what I would give for Infinity for Lemmy, seriously hoping
Same with Infinity for Android, though I did use Sync on iOS.
OH MY GOD ITS MY DREAM COME TRUE
God bless and welcome to the BDC
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.
Wow this is huge. Should bring a ton of new users. Spez really shittin his pants now
Any app right now would be great. The web needs some UI tweaks. I hope Apollo comes to light.
Jerboa for Lemmy?
This is a nice one. Pleasantly surprised that an Android client existed and that it was pretty good too.
This is really cool for Android users. If Apollo came to lemmy, that would be the biggest kick in the teeth for Reddit.
may it be usable without play services
it's disappointing seeing so many people here excited about something that is not (and apparently not planning to be) free open source software :(
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.
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.
This is exciting! Glad to see Lemmy will be getting so much more attention!
Can someone tell me what advantages Sync has/had over Slide or Infinity? These are the two apps I've been using.
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...
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!
This is huge! Sync was my favorite reddit client.
This seems to be the official magazine: https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy
Confirmed by LJDawson: https://www.reddit.com/r/SyncforLemmy/comments/14ee1ul/sync_for_lemmy_is_happening/joui3ej/
How do universal subscribe links work?
/c/communityname@instance.tld
Just type it like that and if you click it you stay in your instance
That is an awful, but functional little hack.
It would be nice if !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world could be supported.
This works, but it's very amnoying to write for long urls on mobile. I seriously hope we get a "subscribe on external community" button added at some point, so that we don't have to do this stuff when direct linked to a communty.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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This should open the community in your instance
How do you do that?
This is excellent news!
Yeeeessssss! <3
I've been using Sync since 2016. This is incredibly good news.
Oh thank fuck
What is this? I'm not sure if I'm looking at the right "Sync" app, there seems to be a lot x_x
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!
By the way, is there a working Lemmy client in the iOS app store that is out of testflight?
Not that I am aware of unfortunately.
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