The more, the merrier!
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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This is really cool for Android users. If Apollo came to lemmy, that would be the biggest kick in the teeth for Reddit.
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.
OH MY GOD ITS MY DREAM COME TRUE
Any app right now would be great. The web needs some UI tweaks. I hope Apollo comes to light.
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.
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/
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.
may it be usable without play services
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.
neat!
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.
This was my favorite Reddit app. So happy to see it coming to Lemmy now that I've moved on from Reddit.
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!
Oh thank fuck
This is exciting! Glad to see Lemmy will be getting so much more attention!
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!
I've been using Sync since 2016. This is incredibly good news.
This is huge! Sync was my favorite reddit client.
Like to be notified so I can try it out. Maybe RIF could try one too. Call it LIF.
Or for Kbin and it could be called KIF
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--76ExNXq---/18nkydttxtlldgif.gif
This should open the community in your instance
How do you do that?
Doesn't look like Boost is happening as of now, as per the developer.
sadly, you are right. But it doesnt close the door completely.
context: https://old.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/14ehiqs/_/jow1le5/?context=10000
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Yeeeessssss! <3
So exciting! Hope for other devs to see the positive reaction for this and consider making lemmy + kbin versions of their apps too!
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.
Agreed I tried so many reddit apps on android and boost was my favorite too.
SAAAAAME
That would literally cement my place here.
This is excellent news!
Very nice indeed!
im on iOS but this is amazing!! i was on android for a long, long time and Sync was my go-to. Thank you, Laurence :D
Great! I think Infinity for Reddit is considering the same. Same for Troddit which I use on my desktop
Can someone eli5 this to me? Lol
Sync for Reddit is a popular reddit 3rd party app. Since Reddit is gonna kill them, the developer decided to do Sync for Lemmy instead, but is gonna take him 3 to 4 weeks to get some kind of beta.
what is sync for lemmy?
Sync for Reddit is a very popular Reddit client. This is the Lemmy version.
That's great. I hope more reddit clients become lemmy clients.
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It’s great to see adoption exploding like this. I’m expecting to see a lot more third party Reddit apps making the jump to Lemmy over the next few months. Exciting times!
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