I don’t know if this is just a placebo effect, but it feels like there’s a lot more socialization and faster upvotes in the past hour Sync was released.

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    I signed up for lemmy when Reddit started pulling it’s shit. But I didn’t really do anything here until today when sync informed me that the lemmy app was available.

    I bet I’m not the only one.

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          I did try Connect for a bit, but it just wasn’t Sync. That’s not a diss on Connect because it is a good app. I’m honestly just happy people have 3rd party options to find the one that works for them.

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          I tried sync today but so far I prefer connect. May try it again later.

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          It took me a while to stumble across Summit. I’m really enjoying it! I’ve tried everything so far and, while each has something going for it, Summit has the most of what I think I want so far. Tbh it just reminds me of Boost, which I’m really looking forward to. But yeah, Summit is my current favorite.

          I never once tried Sync before but now that it’s here I’ll give it a go

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        People really seem to be sleeping on Thunder. For me it’s by far the slickest of all the Lemmy apps I’ve tried.

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      I’m using Jerboa, as I don’t want to use a closed source app with In App purchases and Google tracking. It’s nice there are so many options!

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        Jerboa am the way. I used Sync before, but Jerboa had the perfect amount of customization with ease of use. I say that, but I feel hypocritical cause I’m currently testing Sync.

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          I switched from Jerboa to Sync, as I felt Jerboa was not registering my upvotes? In addition I somehow couldn’t subscribe to communities. (Maybe all user error.)

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        I’m using the open-source Infinity for Lemmy app. I used to use Infinity for Reddit, so I find IfL amazing to use.

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        Man I really wanted to like Jerboa but it just has such terrible UX. I ended up signing up for Kbin.social as I thought it had the best UI and now I’m back to Lemmy through Sync.

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      Yep, same here. Tried a bunch of different apps but never became comfortable with any of them, so I completely stopped using Lemmy, but Sync gave me a reason to come back here.

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      I’m using sync until infinity beta goes public, at least.

      edit: and I’m not longer using Sync! 😊

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      This is exactly my case. Received the notification for the new Sync and I’ve been exploring for like 2 hours. Amazing

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      Same. There were also lots of server errors in the week after sync stopped working for Reddit so I took some time off.

      The sync app is amazing though.

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      Syncforlemmy has 12.8k subscribers.

      Loads of them were poised ready to strike once the beta launched.

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        But aren’t the people subbed here already on Lemmy? I was waiting for the client to come out too and switched immediately, but I was already using Lemmy with other clients before sync came out.

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          Lemmy was pretty unusable and hard to post/comment. Default web UI is buggy as hell, you have to reload the page multiple times to post anything or even switch pages when browsing. Jerboa is even worse. For example, I can’t even bloody login into LW through Jerboa!

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            I guess I haven’t run into superbad issues. I’ve been using connect for lemmy before sync and while sync is more stable, I’d say 95% of the time I haven’t had issues posting with connect. That 5% was definitely annoying, but not enough to turn me off interacting.

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          I was subbed, and used it by browser a bit.

          But Sync feels like home. And once more I’m enthused about using a platform.

          Threads never stood a chance with me. I closed down and deleted my Facebook/insta accounts ages ago. All they have is my ghost profile. Reddit app and site are ass on mobile, which is the main device profile I use for social media.

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            I’m not the biggest fan of the usability of the default lemmy clients either, but there are tons of other clients too. Sync is the best on mobile right now, but connect was really good before too, not as polished or stable, but still very good and much better than jerboa. Also, lots of web instances support old. subdomains that host an old.reddit style ui if that’s what you preferred in desktop. Just add old. as a subdomain for the instance to see if they have it hosted.

            All together the amount of choice we now have on Lemmy (and soon to be even more with big new clients coming out) has gotten really really good! Even better is there’s not corporate platform monopoly that could ever take that away. I’m much more excited about the platform too.

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        I was literally waiting for sync to pounce. It was nice being away but good lord I never want to use Instagram that much ever again

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      Spez’s biggest mistake was sending all the world class 3rd party developers working to make Reddit better straight to his biggest competitor.

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        Sync has nice features that let you customize your experience pretty nicely. It feels like using Reddit which for some of us that migrated is a great experience.

        On top of that, it is fully functional in a tablet mode style with larger devices and it just works really well. The layout of the app also makes it seem a little easier on the user to add instances and accounts. There is also a migrate button, scheduled theme modes, and other nifty little tucked in features. Give it a try if you like it but the Ultra subscription to help the dev. 100% worth it.

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        Your best bet is to really just give it a try. For me, it’s about the polish and UI customizations.

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    Sync drastically reduces the barrier to using Lemmy for sure.

    I appreciate the vanilla Lemmy experience but Sync has my muscle memory / usage habits after all. And it fixes some of my UX complaints that seem mildly annoying but enough to disengage me from the browsing session.

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    Sync makes Lemmy feel like a better version of Reddit, or an old school version of Reddit. It’s great for Lemmy and old Reddit users.

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      I definitely feel the same way. I had been on Reddit since before the Digg collapse. Back when it was mostly nerds and other IT professionals like myself. Lemmy gives a strong wave of nostalgia. Sync for Lemmy makes it a pleasure to use on a tablet. The webpage is alright, definitely serviceable. But Lemmy has strength in the third party apps scene. Sync is the returning champion for my Android tablet. Happy to support his work again.

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        Was just describing this to family today. I don’t know how many times I started to comment on Reddit, only to discard it because I didn’t want to deal with the Reddit brain. Lemmy feels like old school Reddit where engagement is good again.

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      I will definitely be more active as well, there was no app with this much customization. Now that there is much more people will find exactly what they want.

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      It’s the best of both worlds. Young, tight knit community with a mature UX.

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    I think it has a lot to do with the algorithm. I don’t know what he did but I’m not seeing duplicate posts anymore and I love it. Most things are from the past 24 hours instead of week old posts. Going from connect to sync made a massive difference for me.

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    Because it has a clean interface and many people were waiting for the app to be released before they jumped on, at least that’s the case for me, I used jerboa a bit but is a bit too clunky after being used to sync for so many years

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    As someone who signed up back when third party apps died for Reddit, this is my first post. I tried a few of the apps for Lemmy, but I couldn’t get into it. I tried Sync a couple of hours ago, and it just works. I can see that being the case for others.

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      I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or not, but RiF is now completely dead for me, until now I could browse, just not log in, now you can no longer browse on it at all. could be another contributing factor

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      I’m in the same boat, now that sync is here and works well I’m here contributing. I’m so happy sync still feels like sync and works mostly the same way.

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    I could easily imagine people from reddit testing out sync. I am frankly shocked by how mature it already feels.

    It’s already a full fledged Lemmy app.

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      I used Sync for Reddit for years. Never heard of Lemmy. I tried using the Reddit app the last month and it sucks hard. So I got the notification from Sync that Sync for Lemmy is out, and went and made a Lemmy account today. I still have no idea what it is, but here I am.

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        It’s just reddit, but content is spread on multiple sites that talk to one another. There’s some issues with the setup, such as content duplication, but as people learn the ins and outs (use crossposts, people), and the feature set upgrades, it should become better.

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    I call it plausible. The Sync UI is considerably more efficient than the Lemmy web UI. And many of us refugees were 3rd party app users and some of us were Sync users. I have been commenting more since this morning. Surely I am not alone in that?

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      And Sync in general is far more feature-rich than all the other Lemmy apps I’ve tried. Connect for Lemmy was the closest with its swipe to upvote mechanic, but it feels very nice to be at home again.

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        Honestly it’s so awesome just having the feel of it back. I remembered why I never bothered with reddit on the PC, trying to bumble around Lemmy gave me a similar ew lol.

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          I was very happy with Voyager which is great for a PWA but I’m in utter awe at how good the Sync beta is. I was expecting a minimum viable product that still needed a lot of updates but it’s amazingly polished from the start and basically works exactly as the Reddit version did. It’s always good to have options and I’m glad the Lemmy app scene seems to be flourishing.

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            For sure. It doesn’t feel like anything has changed, besides the variety in what I’m seeing. Which tbh the memes are a nice change of pace.

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            True, I really does feel the same, the only bugs I’ve ran into were broken comment trees but that’s also a Lemmy API thing

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    It seems like it. I see a lot of people posting that they were using X app but sync is better.

    I agree sync is an amazing app, both formerly for Reddit, and now for Lemmy, but huge kudos to the developers of existing Lemmy apps for working hard to make the mobile experience as good as possible for us Reddit refugees. I used connect until sync came out, and noticed it was frequently updated. I’d highly recommend everyone support their favourite app developer(s) in whatever way possible. Thanks Kuro!!

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        No joke, I felt like a luddite after trying to click the “X” in the upper right of an embedded tweet to close it earlier this afternoon on my laptop.

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        Hallmark of a shitty trademark though. Use it to refer to every app, water down any uniqueness that it has left.

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      That wouldn’t mean there’s more users if they’re already here using a different app.

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    Yes because the shit that shows up inside of sync is the same way that it did on Reddit. For a lot of users, I bet Reddit was sync. The shit that shows up inside the users probably don’t care where it comes from.

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      Yes exactly. I never used the official Reddit app, so I just stopped using it all together. Now that sync is up again I just use it like nothing happened

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      It definitely was to me. I didn’t even really use desktop reddit. I basically stopped using reddit when sync went down. Let’s see where this lemmy thing goes. But everything looking and feeling the same makes the switch easy. The content will hopefully come. Just curating my feed, finding what to sub to etc is just a lot of work. It will probably take ages.

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        Same, other than the odd link that was sent to me. I haven’t checked since the API issue but i wonder if old was shut down too 🤔