I’ve never been as excited for an app to be released as this one!
Been a sync user since day 1 and I’m looking forward to continuing to support it.
I used RIF, but I remember a lot of people loved sync for reddit, so I plan to jump on the bandwagon.
A fellow RiFugee
I wish they had chosen Lemmy instead. I loved that app and still haven’t had the heart to delete from my phone.
It’s like having Reddit back, this is amazing. 🙏
For as long as I can remember Reddit and Sync have been one and the same. I never used Reddit website or app, only ever used Sync to browse Reddit hosted content. I used it a lot. I’ve missed it a lot.
Between the Lemmy platform and Sync client, to all intents and purposes what Reddit was has been fully restored/migrated.
I know it’s early days, but I did not expect to see anything like this so soon and it gives me hope that Lemmy can grow and thrive into the network of people that always made Reddit what it was. Everything that’s needed is there - early, a little rough around the edges, but there. And being improved constantly.
Hallelujah!
Yea this app going dark for a month made me realize how much I actually enjoy the experience of this app rather than reddit itself. Being forced to use the official app has pushed me away from Reddit more than ever
Lemmying from Sync right now and it brings a tear to my eye. I don’t think anything other than Sync would have made Lemmy feel “right” to me. And now it does.
He just added an £18.99 one off charge to remove ads as well. Instabuy for me. Just brilliant.
Insta buy indeed lol. Probably double paid to remove ads and get ultra but that’s alright, it’s for a good cause and LJ deserves it.
Same!
The second that I opened the interface it was like being greeted by an old friend.
I totally get the subscription fatigue that people get. Work gave me an iPad and I was gobsmacked that a simple SSH app using open source libraries was going to cost $6.00/mo. Hell with that.
But in this instance, I feel like the subscription is worth it. The dev has proven that he is extremely active. Weekly updates on the beta channel for the original Reddit version.
Am I reading this wrong? It is $134.99 Canadian for the one time charge.
100 USD for me.
That’s for lifetime ultra. Check the sidebar for remove ads option. Should be $24
I couldn’t said it better myself. After 12 years on reddit, here I am! Joined as soon as sync launched and after some Eli5 of Lemmy, I’m ready for it.
All tips for interesting instances or give me some tips about what I should check out, or catch up on, it would be appreciated .
I don’t consider myself to be “Lemmying” or “Redditing”… I’m “Syncing”
Helllll yeah!!
I just got access to Sync for Lemmy! Very nice. I hope the developer of rif would also make a lemmy client.
Seems like the rif dev made an app for tildes instead
Yeah I know. kinda disappointed about that.
What’s Tildes? Another Reddit clone?
It was a community built by a former Reddit backend developer, Deimos. He also built the subredditsimulator subs and automoderator, and is looking to purposefully cultivate an online community that avoids some of the common pitfalls, mainly:
- Gravitating over time towards low-effort, lowest common denominator clickbait.
- A culture of lawful-evil trolls who “follow the rules” but are ultimately assholes who ruin the vibe.
Personally I love what he’s done with the place. It’s small, but it’s big enough and I find that the quality of comments is far better than what you might find in most corners of the internet. I’ve also got a few invites if anyone wants to check it out.
Also the Tildes app is astoundingly good for what the developer is calling an “alpha”.
I see, I myself am not really against the idea of strict moderation. So many times, on many sites where I had some sort of moderation powers, I’ve always wanted to just fucking ban people who tip toe around breaking the rules or being assholes, but not quite breaking the barrier.
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Strange I didn’t stumble upon it until now, seems to be active since 2019.
Being invitation only probably hasn’t helped spread the word out, and when I’ve seen it brought up, the strict moderation has brought out complaints.
Not attacking the platform for those things, their house, their rules, but I could see where that keeps them more under the radar.
Yes, with an emphasis on no jokes or memes, serious discussion only.
It’s one of the downsides of the reddit reckoning: there are so many different fediverse communities/sites now that existing subreddit communities have been split across different sites.
Same, just got the notification!
I’m waiting for Boost since that’s what I was used to, but this looks great too :)
I’m still more a fan of relay which is staying for reddit but this is pretty nice.
just got sync installed a few minutes ago, feels so good to have a proper UI for endless scrolling now :)
Same! Found this using Jerboa app, it’s OK but so far this feels a bit more… I don’t know, user friendly or something
Sync has had over 10 years to refine the user experience.
Duuuude same here. Feels good.
And here I am, waiting for a “Lemmy is Fun” app.
Ive found connect is a pretty great alternative if you haven’t already checked it out.
Connect dev here, glad you’re liking it!
It is a great app, thanks for developing Connect.
I use it sometimes, but with the instability of lemmy and being kicked from my login, not having saved logins is really annoying. I finally figured out that my keyboard app has been adding a space to the end of my username because it detects it as a saved word, and I don’t always remember this, so sometimes its a 2-3 attempt process just to log in and use the app.
This is one users 2 cents, I’m not really saying I dislike your app more than I am taking the opportunity to bitch to someone who will listen
I’ve really been enjoying it, although I have a problem with it. I have it set to hide seen posts, and when I try to see the top week posts, it says that there aren’t any. When I try it on wefwef, however, it shows posts. I’m assuming it’s something to do with how the post lookup works, where it will only retrieve a certain amount of posts to show and if I have seen them all, it won’t retrieve more? (wefwef takes a while to retrieve new posts, so I assume that’s what it’s doing)
hell yeah another connect brother
My brother we stand united 🫡
Former RIF user for over a decade here. Now using connect and is not too bad of a transition.
While we’re all talking about Connect (and this could probably be a support post in the community but whatever), is anybody else having an issue that the app isn’t showing all comments? I can get it to show different ones by changing the sort but it doesn’t seem like there is a way to view all comments in a post. I don’t think it’s the result of a block or defederation.
Same same
He’s only making a Tildes app 😞
Isn’t Tildes still invite only and basically denying everyone their application?
No? It doesn’t feel like Reddit / Lemmy though either. I don’t have an account, but it feels really dead compared to Lemmy. I considered switching to Tildes, but the communities are too wide, like there isn’t a Futurama community, just a TV one, there isn’t a Retro games community, just a games one.
It makes sense when you have a small userbase, but I care about niche communities and Lemmy offers that, and some are even slightly alive here.
The user base was also too narrow. It felt like they wanted a specific kind of community, to a place open to just anyone.
You can request an invite by emailing them or posting in the reddit tildes thread
Because my brain is 60-70% walnut, I thought you made a joke about abbreviating Tildes is Fun to TIT.
Tildes is Terrific?
Waiting for Boost for Lemmy here.
Relay for me. But it looks like Sync finally added swipe gestures so I’ll just use that, since my favorite app isn’t getting a Lemmy port. Connect and Voyager are too clunky for daily use. Can’t wait until Sync launches.
(Edit: I just hope it shows downvote counts, comment previews, and has a tablet mode… Oh and doesn’t refresh the page every time I post something.)
Reddit is making the same mistake that 3DFX made against Nvidia and ATI back in the day with third party developers. Restricting 3rd party development was suicidal on reddit’s part.
Ultimately, people want choices, and I think if the average user see only one reddit app vs a literal wall of different Lemmy apps, they will be inclined to try at least one Lemmy app instead.
I disagree that the majority of people want choices, at least when it comes to social media. The vast majority of social media users want to be where the user base is at. For Lemmy to be the more attractive option, it either needs to have do similar numbers to it’s competitor or offer something very unique and useful that the others don’t.
And I say this as someone who has been much happier on Lemmy than I have been the last few years on Reddit.
I’m perfectly okay of those types of social media users go somewhere else. They like what they like, I like what I like.
It feels like old reddit sync experience. I am glad the app is back.
Right? Its funny that I thought I missed Reddit when in fact all I was missing was Sync.
Downloaded just now, looks great! But I don’t really enjoy the subscription model. Why not make one lifetime purchase of let’s say $20 or something? Monthly or yearly payments are a no for me. But paying even a little bit more for a lifetime would be working.
Exactly what I came here to say. I had purchased Sync Ultra (or whatever it was called) in the reddit app and was really happy with the experience. First thing I went to do upon installing the new one was go to purchase again and was really disappointed to see a monthly subscription and no one-time purchases option. Then I was even more disappointed to see ads in the feed. I mean, I get why the developer went this route, but it really sucks. I don’t want another running subscription to think about. I have enough of those as it is.
Alternatively, Sync had so many updates that paying for Ultra once so many years ago felt like I stole it. It’s like $17 a year? I could do that easily to support the dev.
Same here, would buy the lifetime purchase straight away but holding off on the subscription, given the ad-free experience is the only thing I care about.
Looks like he’s got plans to have a one time paid option
It’s available now for $20
I’m not a fan of subscriptions either but come on, it’s 17 dollars a year.
I’d pay 20 a year if it were split 50/50 with the instance I select as my default… I mean the instances need to pay for bandwidth and hosting somehow. I get it, devs need to eat too, but pay it forward.
I think it’s definitely reasonable to expect that the app will continue to improve and there is no lifetime charge that would cover that.
The time is now to encourage and support development of the things you like and that also includes your favorite Lemmy instance itself.
I get that lifetime subscriptions are much more palatable to users but I don’t think it works if you consider that users will want lifetime support as well. So for maybe 20$ you’ll get theoretically years of even decennias of support, ignoring inflation, new bugs and security concerns, etc. It just doesn’t make sense and I wouldn’t expect it from a dev.
I don’t really expect support. I guess bugs get fixed along the way no matter if the user pays monthly, or once. I get the appeal of a subscription for devs, but for users it is not so nice.
Yeah but who fixes the bugs? Why would they fix bugs continuously?
This.
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Yup. This release finally brought me over here. I haven’t logged into Reddit since Sync died over there
Same here. My usage of Reddit has strictly been through the website when I’m searching for answers to technical stuff. I’m happy to use Sync again.
Just FYI the actual term is “mass exodus,” but I love your way of putting it, too! Actually it sounds, like, more bad ass
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My first comment, feels good to be using a Sync app again. My Reddit usage has dropped considerably so I’ve had extra time to waste…
This app looks and feels super solid. I didn’t use sync for Reddit, but this feels and looks smooth as hell. Secondly going to use this and keep looking to see how all the apps are progressing.
Just downloaded. I have not been this happy for months.
I’ve wanted Reddit to burn for awhile. It devolved into nothing but a circle jerk.
It took like 12 years for reddit to become full circle jerk? Maybe we get a good 7-10 from lemmy
Good thing Lemmy instances aren’t made from much smaller communities where everyone has more or less the same opinion…
Unless Lemmy would be considered more of an echo chamber for their respective communities versus a circlejerk?
I’d argue that individual instances aren’t all that important. Im on a smaller instances and hardly ever bump into people from my own instance.
When instances start defederating and closing some instances off, I could see, but even then those users would just make another account elsewhere to participate in the “all” of lemmy
Dicks out
Unlike Lemmy where, god forbid, someone has a center or right wing opinion?
Edit: welp…
It’s not just centre or right opinions, anything that’s not full on Stalinist genocide is downvoted and reported furiously. Basically the same shit as on Reddit.
“Why is everyone persecuting me for having a different opinion?!” they cried.
Check out their comment history for context. Such insightful tidbits as “every leftist should be in jail”, “Go live in North Korea”, and my favorite, “wut, are you an idiot?”.
It’s the same shit as Reddit because you’re the same shit on both platforms.
Yeah, if you’re supporting genocidal regimes, go live in North Korea. You don’t belong in a civilised society with such logic.
Clearly someone who disagrees with you or calls out your…checks notes… bad behavior must support genocidal regimes. It’s only natural!
Why is it those who make arguments about logic so often are completely lacking in the ability to use it?
Happy more notable support is joining but I think it will be hard for me to leave Voyager (tAfka Wefwef) at this point.
Absolutely, the way the Voyager team has pushed out updates and made this app comparable to Apollo in a month has been incredible.
Even if Christian from Apollo did decide to make an app on Lemmy I still probably wouldn’t leave Voyager.
Voyager is like an open source Apollo. It’s incredible
As a former Sync user, I do miss the markdown help. But otherwise it’s tight
I’m sure it will come. Here’s an open issue where the dev has responded https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/367
I’m sure it will come. Here’s an open issue where the dev has responded https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/367
In case anyone doesn’t know yet, there is a iOS testflight app available. For me the haptics that is not present in the webapp made it so much more enjoyable to use.
How do you install voyager? Is it on the Play Store?
Not yet, you can build it from the GitHub source but it’s a mainly a web app for any platform. We’re trying to talk the dev into putting it up on F-Droid as well.
You install it as a webapp from your browser.
Since you’re on lemmy.world, you can use m.lemmy.world
Y’all I have missed this app. Jerboa is fine but sync just feels so much better.
It feels good to be home, fam
Finally… inner peace.
