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Re: Sync for Lemmy

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Post by danielbln »

Sync has been my mobile Reddit driver for over a decade and when Reddit dialed its enshitification to eleven and banned third party clients I immediately jumped over to Lemmy, but the available clients weren't quite up to snuff. Good for how new they were (e.g. Voyager) but Sync is a very mature app.

Having Sync for Lenny has been great so far, it feels like a lesser populated Reddit, for all intents and purposes, and I have zero need to go back to Reddit at this point.

I see this as a win for the Fediverse, and there are plenty of open source Lemmy clients out there for those who don't quite gel with the closed source nature of Sync.

Re: Sync for Lemmy

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Post by cache_hit »

So good! Kinda just feels like I wouldn't even be able to tell the difference, save for my subreddits not being there. Love Sync, had always been my go-to app, and I'm glad it has a future.

Re: Sync for Lemmy

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Post by 0x6c6f6c »

The "Everything across the known Fediverse" option is pretty awesome. I was worried about the UX of searching and adding instances so this is an interesting take. I'll have to try it out

Re: Sync for Lemmy

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Post by d0gbread »

danielbln wrote: post #2

Sync has been my mobile Reddit driver for over a decade and when Reddit dialed its enshitification to eleven and banned third party clients I immediately jumped over to Lemmy, but the available clients weren't quite up to snuff. Good for how new they were (e.g. Voyager) but Sync is a very mature app. Having Sync for Lenny has been great so far, it feels like a lesser populated Reddit, for all intents and purposes, an…

My experience also.

To your last paragraph, I don't quite gel with the open source nature of so much of the ecosystem. The core framework being open source makes a lot of sense to me, but the instances being essentially volunteers makes me nervous about future burnout and lack of longevity.

I'm not saying one way is right or wrong, just that it's something I'm watching and forming opinions around, and current state given the number of times Sync can't do something because an API call fails, it makes me wonder if a small subscription to the instance wouldn't be the worst thing.

If an instance (Mastodon, Lemmy, whatever) was run by a business and came as part of a paywall subscription to say, The Economist, I think that might be pretty cool?

Long living instance, more intention being the local communities vs just duplicated meme subreddits, a stronger stance around moderation, etc and enough federating that everyone has choice and there's little centralization.

Re: Sync for Lemmy

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Post by 0x6c6f6c »

0x6c6f6c wrote: post #4

The "Everything across the known Fediverse" option is pretty awesome. I was worried about the UX of searching and adding instances so this is an interesting take. I'll have to try it out

I think we just killed lemmy.world

Re: Sync for Lemmy

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Post by danielbln »

d0gbread wrote: post #5
danielbln wrote: post #2

Sync has been my mobile Reddit driver for over a decade and when Reddit dialed its enshitification to eleven and banned third party clients I immediately jumped over to Lemmy, but the available clients weren't quite up to snuff. Good for how new they were (e.g. Voyager) but Sync is a very mature app. Having Sync for Lenny has been great so far, it feels like a lesser populated Reddit, for all intents and purposes, an…

My experience also. To your last paragraph, I don't quite gel with the open source nature of so much of the ecosystem. The core framework being open source makes a lot of sense to me, but the instances being essentially volunteers makes me nervous about future burnout and lack of longevity. I'm not saying one way is right or wrong, just that it's something I'm watching and forming opinions around, and current state g…

The BBC already put up a Fediverse instance (Mastodon), I expect that to happen more often. It's early days, but the fact that we're not at the whim of a couple of shitty Bay Area VC funded companies is so nice that I'll forgive the growing pains.
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