Unless anyone knows another reason for this impressive increase in comments? Seems to roughly coincide with Sync launching. If thats the case, just goes to show the importance of good third party apps.
Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
EDIT: Looks like a confusingly labeled graph and I think this is total comments. I have no idea why that spike could exist though.
I’m gonna blame it on all the sync haters just commenting about how sync sucks and why FOSS is so much better.
So, should we thank them?
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What do you mean there are advertisements in my free app?
lol. 3m comments, sync users and sync haters. Probably right.
Still better to have all the discourse on Lemmy instead of Reddit :).
I just don’t get the love for Sync. It was the best reddit app on Android like 10 years ago, but so many other apps surpassed it a while ago. Boost was smoother and had more options. As for iOS, Alien Blue and then Apollo were much better.
With lemmy, you’ve got great apps like memmy and Thunder that are imo better than Sync.
So you’re dealing with ads (or paying for closed source software) just to use a worse product that kinda goes against the FOSS philosophy Lemmy is built on.
Hey, you’re entitled to your opinion. I think it’s fair to say that most people here in the official sync community are going to disagree with you about it being a bad app. As for the FOSS philosophy, I genuinely don’t give a fuck. Cool that there are lots of FOSS alternatives but I like LJ and sync and have no issues supporting him. Nice that there are lots of options for different people.
I never said it was bad.
I just don’t get why people would use it over alternatives that have more features, are more stable, are free, and don’t include ads…
Completely agree, Thunder is SO much better and completely ad free.
Top 6 app behind X (still can’t get used to that stupid name) and before Facebook lite… not bad
Just call it Twitter like everyone else lol.
A. It’s more convenient and clear. B. It will probably piss off Musk.
Now B is a cause I can get behind…
I like the “corporations don’t get to have deadnames” take
It’s currently #10 in the Google Play store, under the “social” category. (First is TikTok.)
Depends on your region. I’m in Canada and it’s 6th here.
The odd thing is, their screenshot is on the play store as well, you can see the logo next to installed apps. However, when I check on my phone, it matches yours.
Like @skye pointed out, I suspect it might indeed be based on region. I remember another thread where a user reported seeing Sync rated at 3 stars, whereas others reported 5 stars.
Ratings on play store are indeed localized (by region) but also by device type so it ensure that the ratings is relevant to your device (as the app experience can be extremely different on different devices running different Android version and/or Roms)
It also shows only ratings from the last of few last released versions in order to no skew the results with old versions of the app
Might be region dependent?
It doesn’t even show up in that list for me. Reddit shows up after top 50. I guess the list is made based on your geographic location as well.
And nary a hint of the Official Reddit app in that screenshot. What could’ve possibly happened??? Ya just hate to see it, or not see it I guess
Not surprising. Sync has made Lemmy a near-seamless change for me.
Sync was Reddit for me. So when Reddit decided to end all 3rd party apps, it was also the end of Reddit for me. Now with Sync for Lemmy it feels like I can pick off exactly where I left off and it feels great. Maybe even slightly better, because it feels like more people are interested in the comments you write and more of them interact with you.
Same except for Apollo on iOS.
Glad to be here. Everything feels less shill-y and spammy. No more 500 of the same shitty comments in every thread
- Username checks out
- This deserves more upvotes
- “This”
- Came here to say this
- Made an account just to say I agree
- Lost it at ______
- Sigh *unzips*
Underrated Comment
I felt anger reading this. I think I just scrolled past it on reddit but lord almighty is it annoying
Can’t tell if this is ironic satire
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This
If I never see another goddamn unzip in my life I will die happy lmao
Agreed wholeheartedly.
And like someone posted about we’re not constantly policing ourselves with /s because the folks here are adults. On reddit it had gotten so vitriolic I didn’t post often because someone was going to jump you for having a differing opinion or to express their faux outrage that you liked cheese on broccoli or whatever.
I watched that happen today, but they were arguing that Tim Martin of Wetherspoons fame is a nice guy.
I just made an account to reply to this lol. I finally bit the bullet and started using Lemmy a few days ago, the community here is of course much smaller than reddit but I would describe the comments here as being like the 1 in 10 comments on reddit that actually made me want to keep using the site. You don’t see as many one word throw away pun comments here, which I’m not necessarily against but it gets very grating over time.
I just downloaded relay yesterday, I was always a RIF user but using relay in “sure drawer” mode is a pretty similar experience. Everyone here seems very chill and nice
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Haha I meant to say Sync
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Same, long time SyncPro user here (10 years), I stopped using reddit in June, I spent all my July on lemmy with PWA, Jerboa, Connect, etc, there was so much problems in the beginning with crash, network errors, etc. it was a jungle, dozens of new instances per day, etc. It is all stable now, I used Jerboa the most. First day Sync for Lemmy was out I installed it, it was like I never left the old site, same layout, colours, functionalities, gesture, etc. Sync for Lemmy is a saviour for sure. I didn’t want the subscribe, I bought the noads version the minute it was out.
Yep. It’s like reddit never shat the bed and just spontaneously split into dozens of smaller sites.
Yeah, this.
I tried a bunch of apps when I moved over to Lemmy. Some were really good however Sync just felt like home. Instantly back to normal from a user experience perspective.
3.9 million of those comments are people complaining about the price or that it’s not FOSS.
Think a fair few comments on it’s price is warranted considering it’s 25 USD (where historically sync for reddit was significantly cheaper)
I mean you don’t have to pay for Ultra. Sync is mostly free. It’s just a few extra features that are premium, so what are you all complaining about.
No, no, no. You’re not allowed to complain about a price hike from £2 to £19 even though the apps are basically the same in UX and concept and LJ was able to push out a semi functional beta in a matter of weeks. Because complaining about it makes you a ‘baby’ apparently and everyone should be willing to part with £19 without blinking, to buy an app to use a service that has barely gotten off the ground and nobody knows will be around in a year at this point. I understand people are excited, and people want to support LJ (I have, loads, over the years) but this community doesn’t seem to even want a proper discourse about this and prefers to resort to shitty insults. Not sure that’s the kind of community I can see myself growing into, personally. To me, that asking price is insanely greedy and a bit delusional considering there are other strong alternatives already popping up. I’ve been loyal to Sync for 10 years I think, but times are tough money is tight, and nobody knows if Lemmy is going to succeed yet. We need big numbers on this platform and keeping costs down would surely aid in that effort. But he must have done his calculations so I respect his decision. If he doesn’t revert I’ll have to look at the alternatives.
No one is forcing anyone to pay for it. The app works fine without paying a dime.
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Yeah, but 2 million of those comments where “Yay, Sync!” and the other 2 million were “REEE, Sync!”
5 were compliments on cute pets.
But were they cute?
It doesn’t matter. Even ugly pets are cute.
Well, where are said pets?? You can’t just say that without links.
Tho Genghis is the real kind of cute.
That’s a damn cute dog right there!
I love that we can see downvotes because next time someone is mean to me I’ll just think ‘you’re probably the guy who downvoted that cute dog’ and their opinion will mean nothing to me.
My goodness, that face!
He manages to always look hungry and pathetic.
Same face, more dorito ear.
Cute pet.
He’s super sweet. He looks kinda homeless right now because I’ve been doing maintenance trims until I can get him into his groomer for a spa day.
Yeah lot of talking about using sync vs foss. I think that giving people more options is good for lemmy as a whole at the end of the day.
Its almost like having good third party apps can benefit a community! Who would have ever seen this coming! I sure didnt!
+1 from Infinity
Lemmy has become my main social media app already. Mastodon is painful to use for me. I just don’t like the Twitter format, and the lack of algo is unbearable.
Lol yeah I agree with Mastodon. I checked it out and it’s like…yep looks like Twitter, and I fucking hate Twitter, just feels like some weird celebrity and brand worship platform. The focus on Lemmy/Reddit at least is the content, and nobody really cares who posted or created it for the most part. Everyone is equal and content speaks for itself, it’s a far nicer concept to me.
Completely agree, I hate how it’s user worship centric like that.
By algo you meant algorithm? If that’s it then you can follow hashtags and you’ll have your feed more interesting for yourself with no algorithm involved.
I never used Twitter, but I am enjoying Mastodon a lot now that I follow my own stuff :)
Following hashtags isn’t remotely the same as having a for you algorithm. There’s nothing comparable to it on Mastodon right now. That is the whole point of what I was saying.
And probably never will, as I said I hardly used Twitter so I guess I never “tuned” my algorithm.
Well you didn’t miss out on much lol
This is me. I don’t know why I thought Mastodon would click for me when Twitter never did. I can’t bring myself to yell into the void. Maybe I’m just doing it wrong, idk. Much happier here.
Yeah definitely a different kind of social media. I come on here to browse the trending content and see what other people are saying about it. It’s content focused, rather then Mastodon where it’s focused on a person’s single post and gets easily buried among low effort posts.
Thanks for putting down my vague impression into clear words. I couldn’t agree more!
Mastodon where it’s focused on a person’s single post
This is a good observation, it means that kind of social media (twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) is much more egotistical and self-aggrandizing,which in turn explains why people like Musk and Trump are so enamoured with the format.
Yeah honestly completely the same here, I had no clue how to actually find anything, and I far prefer engaging with communities, not people
And Mastodon has no top sorting or anything, is it was kinda useless to me
Never enjoyed the twitter style. But following hashtags and not people, made the content much more interesting atleast.
From the website (not the app) search a hashtag, select it and click follow.Use Moshidon or Megalodon. It adds those features that already exist on the website. Why the Mastodon app doesn’t have it is beyond me.
Even I kinda find it very hard to find good content on Mastodon.
It’s just a plain timeline which I’m not sure I like atm.
Sync definitely made me a regular on Lemmy
Same. And I started commenting in Sync since I kept getting errors when trying it in Jerboa.
It doesn’t work on Sync either. We don’t see your comments.
I still don’t know how this all works, but I’ll just keep blindly using it because I like Sync, and Laurence deserves our support.
You’ll catch on. It’s just like using Reddit, except each subreddit includes a web address in the name. Other than that, it’s mostly the same.
I’m on lemmy significantly more since the sync launch. Both jerboa and liftoff were pretty half baked in comparison… Really hoping more people from Reddit will join
Same boat as you, used to encounter multiple bugs and crashes with Jerboa… Since switching to Sync I haven’t encountered a single crash.
I really like how it auto translates links to comments on other instances and has lots of other small QoL features that show the dev really cares about the app.
Other users who are just choosing apps by how the UI looks and Lemmy’s stock features have missed a lot of the things that make Sync stand out 🤷♂️ I’ve customised mine to resemble Infinity (the app I used for reddit) and I’m pretty damn satisfied rn with the gestures, performance and much longer battery life when browsing.
I’ve customised mine to resemble Infinity (the app I used for reddit)
Are you aware Infinity is available for Lemmy now?
I just got here 2 days ago because of Sync. More will come.
Well the sole reason now my account exists and has so many replies is coz of sync.
I would suspect it is another burst of Reddit users. I’ve just joined from Reddit because the third party app I used there (RiF) has stopped working this week. I can’t have been the only one whose app had zombied along for a month, died and then left me googling for Reddit alternatives.
It was the same for me
yeah I came here because RIF finally stopped working
you can make sync look A LOT like RIF. Now for Reddit may be good for you but fully switching to lemmy is better
Boost still works for me (I’ve created a subreddit to moderate)
All third party apps went offline AFAIK.
Welcome!
Once relay goes down more will come. I’ve been holding on using that.
It’s not only because of Sync alot of other FOSS apps were released or got an update around the same time.
Yup. And most of the new comments are about these apps for Lemmy 😂
Boost for reddit is also releasing soon, expect this chart to blow up once again.
Yep can’t wait! Has the dev given any ETA?
I’m using something called connect. I’m not sure why I picked this one but it works quite well. Is sync so much better? The hype around it is so impressive I feel I must be missing something.
It’s a very emotional thing for many of us. I’ve beed using reddit on sync exclusively, I just couldn’t be arsed to use the web version any more.
So when they killed third party apps, reddit was dead to me. Not only because of the terrible user experience of the web site and official app, but mostly because of the way they treated the developers after all those years.
After the lemmy version came out, I opened it up and everything was back to normal (except for the missing content).
I’m really hoping that the devs of other apps succeed in the transition as well and they manage to get a good portion of their users to join as well.
As for the FOSS fundamentalists: I really don’t get it. I’ve worked on open source projects in the past, when I felt I could contribute. I don’t get all the hate being directed towards sync though. You like your FOSS-app? Great! I prefer sync and I’m happy to support the author.
I used it for years on that other site, so when it came out for lemmy it felt like coming home. Not sure how much is just muscle memory and being used to it, but the design and interface are really well done.
Before Sync I settled on Connect, it’s a really nice app. But Sync is a great app, one of the best implementations of Material I’ve used. And its UI is the result of years of work on the Reddit app, so it’s got a lot more features and is already more polished than the others, despite being in beta.
Sync has a better ui and customization (in my opinion) and more functions ALTHOUGH at the moment posting and hiding posts doesn’t work, so I don’t know if I can recommend it at the moment
Sync has a lot more features. Direct imgur upload from commenting, live comment mode (if Lemmy ever gets big enough for game threads), open communities in new windows are some of my favorites.
A lot of the functionality isn’t ready yet including submitting posts - but it’s coming. Connect is currently more complete but Sync will get there soon.
Direct imgur upload from commenting
Is that new? I’m on beta 26
Just tried it and it says "failed to upload image"lol so maybe it’s not running yet. When you hit reply it’s the image icon next to the folder icon
That one should work. It doesn’t use Imgur though, it uploads to your home instance’s pictrs.
Maybe it’s a lemm.ee issue then? Still not working
Hmm looks like it. Works from my lemdro.id account but not from my lemm.ee account.
Edit: I’ve just checked, lemm.ee returns an error saying the image is too large when using the website as well. I think they’ve set it low to effectively disable image uploading (since it gave the same error with files under 1 MB).
Damn lol so I should be on a server that allows larger image sizes… That’s annoying lol
Connect is actually heavily inspired by sync. Sync’s nice, but maybe only a bit more polished then connec, otherwise the interface is very similar. When I tried sync the other day the search wasn’t working, so I think I’ll just stay with connect. Honestly, I never used sync for Reddit so when I tried it after hearing all the hype I was kinda let down. It’s nice but it’s in the same league as like 3 or 4 other apps imo (assuming they fixed search)
If it weren’t for Sync I’d still be using Connect. Connect is, in my opinion, the 2nd best app for Lemmy right now.
