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Re: Sync for Lemmy

#11
Sync makes Lemmy feel a lot like Reddit, especially since it used to be my go-to app a year ago. Lemmy feels like it's been flooded with repost bots from Reddit making the content feel a lot less engaging.

Personally I'm okay not having the topic on Lemmy if there aren't any people posting about it.

Re: Sync for Lemmy

#12
I used Sync for the last couple years and having it for Lemmy is great. It feels like I'm browsing Reddit and has made the transition much easier. I wish I could leave Reddit entirely, but there are a couple of subs that don't yet have an equivalent on Lemmy.

Re: Sync for Lemmy

#19
post #9

For those of use who are old reddit fans, https://old.lemmy.world was exists and is close enough.

Oh my god, that's a beautiful sight.

Yep. I am so glad this is happening because hopefully it means this is also the last time. RIP Digg and Reddit.

Re: Sync for Lemmy

#20
post #5

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…

> but the instances being essentially volunteers makes me nervous about future burnout and lack of longevity.

Welcome to the early dial-up and internet world pre-corporatization.

I'm looking forward to Lemmy implementing account migration to add some insurance, but individual and community owned services was much of what built the internet. It's pretty resilient.

Meanwhile, something being owned by a corporation is far from any kind of guarantee. Shall we go through the Google graveyard?

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