Honestly I’m using, and especially posting on, Lemmy much more often now that I have sync back.
I had been using Sync for Reddit for so many years that it became muscle memory. Now I have it back and things just feel right.
I’m still waiting for Boost, but Sync is fine for now 🙂
Do you have access to an unreleased build? Still no post submission functionality on mine just yet (commenting from Sync).
Sync is still just in beta so a bunch of features are lacking. Post submission will come with time.
Definitely. I’m just wondering because they referred to posting on Lemmy more frequently with Sync - curious if there’s another build or whether they meant commenting specifically.
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Jeroba on mobile, web app inside of firefox with adblockers on desktop.
I used Jeroba while I was waiting for sync to come out. Personally it’s really no competition, it’s great that it is being worked on but Jeroba is significantly worse in every way except for being open source. Hopefully someday it will be great!
Synk is just so polished comparatively everything else feels unfinished
I ditched Jerboa for Liftoff, and then Liftoff for Thunder because they all kept breaking.
Thunder was alright, all things considered, but the UI is lacking. Now that Sync is out, I’m back to where I started 12+ years ago.
Jerboa feels a lot like Joey
Not quite, but close
I don’t know who or what Joey is.
Joey was a reddit client. It was the one I used, I liked it best. But Jerboa didn’t remind me of Joey at all.
The layout does for me.
One thing I didn’t like from Reddit, the elitism and gatekeeping posts from its users. OP, I’m right there with you.
yeah i just dont care
Can’t we just be happy that we’re not on Reddit instead of fighting over which UI we prefer!?
Maybe the real Reddit was the arguments with friends we made along the way
We’re ALL Reddit/Lemmy on this blessed day.
The fact we can even pick between multiple UIs is a blessing lol
I use two and it’s okay. I uninstalled Reddit app today and deleted every account. I already had did it on the main start of July but the other accounts had to follow through
I’m not fighting, I just want sync users to shut the fuck up and stop advertising their app at every possible minute, because those of us who aren’t using it have already decided it isn’t the one for us.
I’m just happy for anything that brings people to Lemmy
I once did an amazing milkshake
It’s not SfR, but it was created in a panic by a dedicated author. It’ll get better.
Not a sync user but cant wait for infinity for lemmy to be mature enough to appear on fdroid
I’ve been using it over the last few days and I’m pretty impressed with it so far. Before that I was using connect, then sync but didn’t like the ads and insane prices, also tried out a few others but ultimately settled with infinity.
I’ve been using infinity for reddit ever since sync died and I find infinity for lemmy is quite polished and runs the smoothest out of all the apps I’ve tried, even smoother then sync for lemmy. The only bug I’ve ran into is trying to press the profile button on the navigation draw at the bottom crashes the app but it still works from the hamburger menu. I like that I have two of the same apps for both reddit and lemmy that are identical in both looks and usage too.
It is available on F-Droid right now. I’m using and pretend to make a donate to the dev.
The f droid description says you cant post
yes you can. I m posting and replying using it.
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Sync for Reddit was one of the more popular Reddit apps on Android. (Maybe even the biggest?) Now that Reddit has stopped being reasonable with their API fees, the developer of Sync has been working on a Lemmy client using the same name. It released a couple days ago.
Most of the other Lemmy clients on Android are free and open source, but Sync is closed source and will be ad supported unless users pay a $20 one-time fee to remove ads or pay for a subscription to get some additional features. Because Sync is closed source, there’s no way for users to audit what data the app is collecting or sending out.
Many users are using Sync because it’s familiar and has a high degree of polish and functionality thanks to being a fork of a very well established app. Its popularity, along with the issues I mentioned above have got a vocal portion of the user base railing against the app and another vocal portion of the user base defending it.
I mean it is possible to audit the data it would be sending out without network access unless the dev has gone out of their way to make it non reverse enginneerable
It’s not protected at all, and after reddit crapped out, the dev even released a version with a bunch of security features removed to make it easier for the reVanced team to patch the client so it keeps working with reddit, using your own api keys.
The whole discussion took place on his official support-discord. I was genuinely flabbergasted he was so cool with people disassembling the app, and even helpful in the process.
As for data tracking, it’s possible to log it with the duckduckgo privacy tracker, and I confirmed that buying adfree completely removes any outgoing connections to anything but the respective lemmy instance you’re using.
That’s good to hear, that shows the Sync dev was most likely being honest when he said buying the paid version of the app would completely disable the ad library.
Thank you!
Remember folks whether you choose to use sync or another lemmy app none of us are using reddits shitty mobile app and in that way we are all winners
This to me is the most salient point. I think this initial noise will fade away once the various options are all available.
It will never completely go away because people love to be tribal but it will probably settle into puticular communities where people can talk about the different lemmy apps
i use sync btw
I’m not an Android user, so I don’t know Sync, but it’s bound to be a better Lemmy app than those godawful cross platform ones. I’m glad it exists!
It definitely is, but mostly because it’s got 10 years of a head start UX wise since it used to be a reddit app.
I cannot find Sync on F-Droid.
sync is not open source
Oh ok, thanks.
Using Jerboa and it’s good.
My reply to all the naysayers:
Thanks for making Lemmy feel like home, it wouldn’t without you!
The reality is it’s a free world, regardless of what morality you put on things there are going to be things that happen that you don’t like. That’s life.
Like it or not Lemmy has had explosive growth because of apps like Sync. Because of them being killed off by Reddit. If it weren’t for the drama of Reddit doing that, I and millions of other users wouldn’t be here right now as we’d still be on Reddit.
Even people who weren’t using the 3rd party apps left Reddit because Reddit’s actions left a bad taste in their mouths.
So, morality of one guy charging for his honest work in creating the paid or ad supported app aside, you should be thanking the apps including sync for helping drive so many users to Lemmy.
If you yourself don’t want to use a paid app, then that’s okay! We’re all allowed to respond or react to things how we want, but being incredibly divisive for something that a lot of people wanted and that really is inconsequential is almost universally frowned on.
Just let people do what they want and don’t shoot them down for it. More options for browsing Lemmy = more Lemmings = more content.
Much love my dudes! We may disagree on this but we agree on many many many more things I’m sure, just because we’re on Lemmy instead of Reddit in the first place is proof of that! ✌️
home sweet home
I didn’t use Sync with reddit but since it’s the best one for Lemmy… Here I am! On Sync! Enjoying it!
