• Mike
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    24010 months ago

    Great news. I’m probably more likely to use Sync, but seeing not one but two well regarded Android Reddit apps migrate to Lemmy is just bloody awesome.

    • @lemmycolon
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      3910 months ago

      Really missing Relay :(

      • TWeaK
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        1010 months ago

        I’m not missing Relay’s trackers in the paid app.

        • @root
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          910 months ago

          Same, love Relay. I ditched the official long ago because of their tracking pixels. My pihole was having a heart attack.

      • @Nihilistic_Mystics
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        410 months ago

        Thunder feels pretty close. Turn on compact mode + thumbnails on the right and it’s visually almost identical to how I had Relay set up. It even has the short swipe to upvote, long swipe to downvote actions.

        https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder

        • @1019throw
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          110 months ago

          All of these are missing good comments functions to me, mainly jumping to top level comments. Also, the ability to swipe away content or get to communities/magazines.

    • @Vulnicura
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      1610 months ago

      Three* Don’t forget Slide.

      • @RaoulDook
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        1010 months ago

        Great news, Slide is my favorite FOSS client from F-Droid

    • kratoz29
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      1010 months ago

      If one thing the Fediverse have thought me so far is that you can use them all at the same time ;)

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        Yes, it’s going to be called Sync for Lemmy and preregistration opened two days ago. It most likely will still be some weeks before it becomes available. Ljdawson stated the target is 6 weeks, so that would be somewhere in the middle of August.

      • TheSaneWriter
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        110 months ago

        Yes, Sync for Lemmy has been confirmed to be in development. It has its own community and a channel on the Sync discord.

    • @Kemwer
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      410 months ago

      Same. I used Boost for a while until I found Sync. I imagine the same will happen here.

      • @ilikemoney
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        410 months ago

        I went from relay to sync to boost, lol. They were all great but the customizable views were more to my taste with boost.

    • @[email protected]
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      310 months ago

      I’m on Jerboa which is functionally very similar to Reddit is Fun so I’m happy with that. Like you said, good to see boost for Lemmy anyway tho

    • ourobouros
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      210 months ago

      The more the merrier!

    • @angelorohit
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      210 months ago

      Seriously, I can’t wait to use Sync for Lemmy!

    • @andrr_464
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      19 months ago

      don’t forget about infinity too

  • @dichotomized
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    11310 months ago

    This is what finally made me create a Lemmy account.

    • Sir_Kevin
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      410 months ago

      Awesome! Thanks for the link!

  • @danhasnolife
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    8510 months ago

    Between Boost and Sync, Lemmy is emerging as a promising option because there’s going to be multiple strong 3rd party apps to engage with.

    • @TrickyCamel
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      2810 months ago

      Ikr? I was under the impression that Mayayo wasn’t interested but he probably saw the potential even more so when other former reddit 3rd party apps are switching, potentially bringing a lot of users.

      • TheSaneWriter
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        210 months ago

        It was a sudden switch. My guess is he was on the fence and outpouring of support and donations from his goodbye announcement post pushed him over the fence. I’m thrilled of course, Boost was my favorite Reddit app so I look forward to trying the Lemmy version.

    • NutWrench
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      410 months ago

      It’s on the Google Play store (Boost for Lemmy) as a “coming soon” app. :)

      Excellent!

  • @pwnstar
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    As a boost user this is weird… So many people were asking in the subreddit and he never answered. I’m glad it’s happening

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  • @impulse
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    4410 months ago

    Thank you Ruben!

    It seems like the future for Lemmy is pretty bright with all these amazing apps switching over.

    It’s a shame that Christian decided to not develop Apollo for Lemmy for the time being. I bet that would also convince a fair share of users to abandon ship.

  • @nikzgfx
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    4310 months ago

    Can’t wait. Boost is my most used app on Android and this will be great.

  • @Darkenmal
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    4210 months ago

    Hell yeah! It’s my favorite reddit app by far.

  • A bird
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    3710 months ago

    This is so exciting! Boost was my app of choice for the old place. I’m glad to see this here.