Edit:
Official Lemmy Community:
https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy
This should open the community in your instance
Looks like the Boost for Reddit Dev just reserved a Lemmy Community…No official announcement yet.
Proof: https://old.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/14ehiqs/_/jouvuok/
Direct Link to the Community: https://lemmy.world/c/boostforlemmy
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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.
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!
Yeeeessssss! <3
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!
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!
The more, the merrier!
By the way, is there a working Lemmy client in the iOS app store that is out of testflight?
Not that I am aware of unfortunately.
may it be usable without play services
request that he release it on Fdroid!
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.
Can someone tell me what advantages Sync has/had over Slide or Infinity? These are the two apps I’ve been using.
It’s entirely about your UI preferences, really. Most third party apps had feature parity, and the features they didn’t have were more niche. You could find something each of them did especially well, but the vast majority of features an average user could want were present in all of them. Boost was my preference for a more graphical experience, and RIF was my default for its simplicity.
Sync has an extremely vocal fanclub because its dev is very involved with the userbase directly, but it’s really not much different from the other graphical ones save for its MaterialYou integration, if that’s something you care about. It’s as respectable an app as the others.
If they had longer than 10 days to live I’d suggest trying each one to see which fits your preference…but…
As an extensive user of Sync let me say.
The ability to customize change layout, Twitter previews in posts, ability to open comments, subreddits in windows.
It’s ability to cache comments/threads/videos. So, if android decides to kill Sync due to limited resources I can start where I left instead of having every thing reload from scratch. And lots more. The dynamic Material you theme and the beautiful UI should not be forgotten.
It’s multi windows feature with its caching feature made it indisputable for me. I had anywhere from 3-6 windows or more active to jump back in anytime. If he brings that to lemmy it would make interacting with lemmy that much more awesome. Waiting to see what’s he got in store for us.
Here’s a screenshot to show what I mean by multi windows:
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.
But what does it do?
Doesn’t look like Boost is happening as of now, as per the developer.
That’s too bad, I moved to boost from sync awhile ago because I didn’t like the way the dev of sync was constantly changing the ui and then announced he was going to put some future features behind another (subscription) pay wall, despite being told when you buy the app thst you’d have access to all development features.
It’s happening!
Baconreader as of now isn’t moving to Lemmy either ☹️ big sad here, probably my favorite interface.
It says subscribe pending when I subscribe to those from here
I will only use FOSS apps for Lemmy, so if Sync is not FOSS, it does not get onto my phone. Only exception I might make is RIF due to my trust in Talklittle.
I really hope Infinity will get here, too.
