Lemmy Finally feels usable! Thank you LJDawson
Give Infinity for Lemmy a try. It’s just as good IMO, and unlike Sync, you don’t have to pay $99 to permanently stop it from spying on you.
I was so glad to see infinity for lemmy. I used infinity for reddit and that had a ui that both looked good and was intuitive. I was super excited to see that there was now a fork of it for use with lemmy.
“99 to permanently stop it from spying on you.”
No you don’t have to pay at all actually. In fact people can choose to pay for something they love that works better than half the Lemmy apps I have already tried. I will pay for something that works.
Open source doesn’t always mean you are any more safe either. I feel like this community thinks it knows more about security than it actually does.
Lemmy itself has encountered numerous cyber attacks.
And it’s taken sites down. It’s almost as if this community doesn’t know as much about security as it claims it does.
Personally I was a Boost fan and I’m excited for its release for lemmy. But I’m using sync in the meantime and absolutely loving it. There’s a smoothness to this app, a refinement if you will that I couldn’t find on any of the other apps. The level of customization to make my feed my own.
Totally on point… Like you, I am a boost user, but the experience here in sync so far is the best regarding all other apps… Either way, before this, I was using thunder nightly and so far so good… Now, I’m waiting for boost to decide for which one I’m gonna go as premium user…
I’ve been jumping between Jerboa, liftoff and now sync. Sync just has a smoothness that the other two apps don’t have, at least in my experience on my pixel 6 pro, scrolling and everything is butter smooth on sync, the others have some odd stutters sometimes
Baconreader user here to represent!
same. but my ass is on infinity. can’t believe the day has finally come
So what does sync do that lemmy on broswer doesn’t?
Some people don’t like using desktop.
Aside from the polish, it’s also the familiar UX that many of us have used for a decade. It just feels familiar & right now!
Ehh ill give it a look. I generally avoid apps that are just a website.
It just adds ads that you can pay for to have it removed. Sync is piggybacking on the opensource devs.
What a terrible way of looking at it. UX matters a lot when you’re using a platform, and some people are willing to tolerate the occasional ad if they get a UX they like and are familiar with.
I’m all for people liking a certain UI/UX and supporting the dev but seriously, putting ads on fucking Lemmy? This is just so wrong
What’s the point on not using reddit’s mobile app then? I was using a 3PA because I couldn’t stand the ads and now comes someone to put ads on an app for Lemmy jfc
Exactly. And with it, it brought an army of ad-loving nuggets (from Reddit I’d say by the way they reply so defensive to me, just look at the downvotes).
If instead they could appreciate and donate some of their hard earned money to all the devs of those instances… Instead of getting rid of ads on an non-ad platform (yeah, that’s dumber than Trump).
I’m 99% sure this army has been bought by Stync to promote their app. They’re making 100$ of those subscriptions. An army like this doesn’t cost much in comparison.
Baby needs his bottle
Lol. You go ahead and pay for no-ads on a non-ad platform and call other babies. At least one of us doesn’t have the intelligence of a baby, and you don’t know who.
You love paying for the trackers, I love the downvotes.
Cry more
I’m not crying. Just pointing out the hypocrisy of paying to get rid of ads on an (previously) ad-free platform. Pretty damn sure who to blame for that crap.
That’s not hypocrisy. They’re not advocating one thing and doing another.
If you don’t like the ads don’t use the app.
What the fuck are you doing on this community of you hate Sync so much?
Gross, I was reading through this thread thinking about checking Sync out, but the idea of wilfully adding ads is so disgusting to me. The browser works well for me anyway, I don’t think I’ll end up getting an app unless it does something outstanding.
Sync UI/UX are carried over from years of refinement as a Reddit client with full native controls. It now mostly just has a different API and service layer wired in for Lemmy. Definitely not a simple web view app.
Ill give it a look
A far more polished experience
Most of us are here because we used Sync for Reddit for years and want that familiar UX.
But not all of us! Yesterday was the first time I tried it
I really wanted to just use the PWA, but Sync really is just so much better an experience right now. It’s smooth, but it also doesn’t lose my place in the feed every time I open a post. Trivial yet crucial!
It’s a smother experience on mobile and more polished
So you are the cause of the recent server problems!1!!
I was using wefwef.app and liked the colored bars on the left when several users replied to each other. Now in sync these bars are the same color. Can I change this?
this is the coolest thing i ever saw
I fucking love color bars and link to settings
You can link to settings?!
What a fantastic feature, never saw that in Sync for Reddit.
it was there but very rarely used, even on r/syncforreddit
I never would’ve thought of this, loving sync as a first time user
Sync was the only way Reddit was usable and now we get the same benefits for Lemmy. The dev actually listens to feedback and deserves every praise he gets.
yes, hold down any switch or setting to get a sync-settings:// link in your clipboard to post, which is then clickable when in the app.
Settings shortcut: General > Community icons
holy shit! its that easy!
I’m loving people’s reactions Everytime this pops up.
Damn, I forgot this was a think in Sync for reddit. Just bought the ads removal even though I cannot see any ads anyhow. The dev deserves it.
Let’s keep it alive fam!
Sync is great. Lemmy is still lacking content. Shows I watch, bands, etc… those communities have no activity (if they even exist).
Niche communities start when the user ase grows quite a lot. Give it time.
My ass is pretty fat already. It doesn’t need any more growing.
It will take years before you see more niche communities like that.
Be the change you want to see.
There needs to be 100 times the people for any change to manifest. No matter how hard you try, you won’t be able to convince tens of thousands of people to switch.
IDK if we are that far off. Reddit was a lot of fun way before reaching it’s peak user base.
Additionally, the highest Lemmy days are seeing something like 25%-50% as many posts as Reddit does on average.
Yes you will. It will just happen gradually over a couple years. No one is expecting this to happen overnight.
I am. LET’S GO! 🤣
We’re all here already, right?
I actually followed a guy on reddit who shared his phone number with me. I just searched for him on Lemmy and he’s not here. texted him to get over here! lol
I’m working on it!
Not at all! Just like with price, the difference between zero and one is hugely more consequential than any extra dollar added. Think of it: if you see a community with no posts in the last hour, or day, it does feel a bit deserted. Or a post without comments. By adding a post, or the first comment, you can be the difference for the next guy’s impression, and encourage them to do the same, and then the ball gets rolling, and that’s how you get momentum.
Altho true someone has to be the first of those 100 people. Slowly but surely people will come
But those people have already made the choice and it isn’t Lemmy.
And that’s fine, if they don’t come they don’t come. I like Lemmy so imma stay
If they don’t come then they will be making communities elsewhere. Which means less relevance for Lemmy.
I gave up on making community content once I lost all my data when Vlemmy died. I know I’m a part of the problem, but it burned me out
Same as Reddit in the beginning, Digg was so strong back in the day.
today was the first time I forgot if I was browsing reddit or lemmy. its so good to be back on sync
I’ve still got revanced sync installed and I’m forgetting which one I have open occasionally, lmao
Same here. Loving that the new icon is black and the old one is white. Makes it easier to see I went to the “dark side” 😂
It feels good to be back to normal. Balance is restored.
Does anyone know if we’re going to get the “Sync” feature back?
I really miss my offline reading.
I was just wondering yesterday whether the name still fits.
Same
You guys have high requirements :)
But I agree, fantastic app. I think second best app is Liftoff though, it’s a bit cleaner since it doesn’t have a billion options.
Sync is like the professional choice in clients
I switched to Liftoff this week after Connect stopped letting me control my volume. My only complaint with is not being able to align post thumbnails to the left side of the screen. Other than that, I love the look and feel.
Maybe I’m alone facing this, but I tried a few apps and the website itself - I was finding the interface very unintuitive and confusing
It has sooo many options, it could be a good idea to hide some of them behind an Advanced menu. That way the user interface still looks clean but power users can customize.
I think that would help a lot
old.lemmy.world should fix those woes.
how did you forward a link to a setting? what magic is this?
In settings, long press what you want to share till it stays link copied and just paste it in your comment box.
That. Is so fucking hot. 😱🥹🤌🏼
I envy you, mine crash right after login, seems to be related with the high number of subscribed communities.
How many you got? I have 200 and it works.
537…
I’ve got about 850 and it’s working great for me
Are you subscribed to any Kbin magazines?
That made conflict to me with another tool.
I’m pretty sure I am yeah, I think I’m subscribed to half the fediverse
Hmm, mine crashes too instantly with my “main” account that has several hundred subs.
And it doesn’t crash with one of my “clean” ones.Checked the crash report, it said “ArrayOutOfBound”.
Be sure to give your feedback on the Sync Discord! :)
How? 😅
Reddit migration hit hard.
Ok :) Yeah maybe it’s that I guess but not sure why the app would care how many they are.
Is not that it cares, maybe a rouge community, or a bad character, I don’t know, more people have reported this issue though.
I’m wondering if it’s just the rounded image corners
Nope. Im using cards view, edge to edge without rounded corners. Also I hate rounded corners. So can’t be the reason.
The app is just so smooth. Responsive. Fast. I don’t know what hes doing to get it that smooth, the app must preload and cache a lot maybe?
