Lemmy Finally feels usable! Thank you LJDawson
Honestly sync has the little things I was hoping for.
how did you forward a link to a setting? what magic is this?
In settings, long press what you want to share till it stays link copied and just paste it in your comment box.
That. Is so fucking hot. 😱🥹🤌🏼
I was using wefwef.app and liked the colored bars on the left when several users replied to each other. Now in sync these bars are the same color. Can I change this?
this is the coolest thing i ever saw
I fucking love color bars and link to settings
You can link to settings?!
yes, hold down any switch or setting to get a sync-settings:// link in your clipboard to post, which is then clickable when in the app.
Settings shortcut: General > Community icons
holy shit! its that easy!
I never would’ve thought of this, loving sync as a first time user
Sync was the only way Reddit was usable and now we get the same benefits for Lemmy. The dev actually listens to feedback and deserves every praise he gets.
I’m loving people’s reactions Everytime this pops up.
What a fantastic feature, never saw that in Sync for Reddit.
it was there but very rarely used, even on r/syncforreddit
Damn, I forgot this was a think in Sync for reddit. Just bought the ads removal even though I cannot see any ads anyhow. The dev deserves it.
Let’s keep it alive fam!
Alright I keep hearing about this one time payment to remove ads for 20$. Anyone know where I can find it?
I might end up getting a sync ultra subscription but for now I just want to remove ads.
Also… I feel like I’m a crazy person but I’m not seeing many or any ads in the first place. or maybe I’m just not noticing them as I scroll.
Thanks in advance for anyone letting me know.
update to latest version.
He’s working on a onetime purchase to remove ads as stickied in the release thread. No idea where you got the $20 from. (Update: it’s in the beta lol)
I’m actually already getting no ads by blocking with adguard’s dns already. Just a thing to set in your phone’s settings.
If you’re already not seeing that many annoying ads in the first place, maybe just hold out on purchasing anything then lol.
It’s a little bit I want to remove ads, it’s much more I want to support the dev
It’s in the left menu just under Get Sync Ultra
Can you recommend communities? A bunch exist but so many have little to no activity.
I’m wondering if it’s just the rounded image corners
Nope. Im using cards view, edge to edge without rounded corners. Also I hate rounded corners. So can’t be the reason.
The app is just so smooth. Responsive. Fast. I don’t know what hes doing to get it that smooth, the app must preload and cache a lot maybe?
Sync is great. Lemmy is still lacking content. Shows I watch, bands, etc… those communities have no activity (if they even exist).
Be the change you want to see.
There needs to be 100 times the people for any change to manifest. No matter how hard you try, you won’t be able to convince tens of thousands of people to switch.
Not at all! Just like with price, the difference between zero and one is hugely more consequential than any extra dollar added. Think of it: if you see a community with no posts in the last hour, or day, it does feel a bit deserted. Or a post without comments. By adding a post, or the first comment, you can be the difference for the next guy’s impression, and encourage them to do the same, and then the ball gets rolling, and that’s how you get momentum.
Altho true someone has to be the first of those 100 people. Slowly but surely people will come
But those people have already made the choice and it isn’t Lemmy.
And that’s fine, if they don’t come they don’t come. I like Lemmy so imma stay
If they don’t come then they will be making communities elsewhere. Which means less relevance for Lemmy.
Yes you will. It will just happen gradually over a couple years. No one is expecting this to happen overnight.
I am. LET’S GO! 🤣
We’re all here already, right?
IDK if we are that far off. Reddit was a lot of fun way before reaching it’s peak user base.
Additionally, the highest Lemmy days are seeing something like 25%-50% as many posts as Reddit does on average.
I gave up on making community content once I lost all my data when Vlemmy died. I know I’m a part of the problem, but it burned me out
Niche communities start when the user ase grows quite a lot. Give it time.
My ass is pretty fat already. It doesn’t need any more growing.
Same as Reddit in the beginning, Digg was so strong back in the day.
It will take years before you see more niche communities like that.
And 50% of the posts on lemmy in the last 12 hours are about Sync.
Hope we get some more diverse content soon lol
Yeah im honestly starting to question if its all organic, as its trivially easy to artificially inflate posts, and we even had a post the other week warning exactly of app developers could manipulate votes to get more people to use their platform and make purchases.
I’d believe it’s organic tbh, I was waiting for Sync or Boost to drop before I fully took the plunge. There are probably many others like me for whom those apps and others defined the Reddit mobile experience and the other apps for Lemmy (or the ones I used at least) weren’t as feature rich so it’s an easy choice to make.
There are clearly a lot of bots posting links but that’s not that different from reddit either. The real friends were the comments anyway.
I would say its mostly organic since a good amount of discussion is negative feedback about ads and the paid tiers.
I’ve been using sync for reddit for years, and I used Vanced to keep sync for reddit working even today. I was interested in trying lemmy ever since it was announced that the popular third party apps were going away on Reddit. I might have started using Lemmy earlier if it wasn’t for being able to still use Sync for Reddit and knowing that Sync for Lemmy was coming out very soon. Now that sync for Lemmy is here, so am I.
Or screenshots from Twitter/Reddit
Reddit is 50% screenshots of other social media too, so I don’t think that’s necessarily a Lemmy problem
The hilarious thing is you can’t post from Sync yet, only comment, so for every post about Sync someone had to use their browser or another app to post it.
I have so many questions…
As soon as sync lets me post I’ll be posting things but until then imma just comment empty promises
🤣😂
We will. Lemmy seems to easily get flooded with singular stories. Eg whenever Elon comes up with yet another dumbass decision.
There’s a golden ratio somewhere, it feels like Reddit has become overflown with posts and empty discussions, even on relatively niche subs. I could get behind a more sane approach to my web browsing habits but of course it will take some time.
I kept trying other apps for lemmy but none of them really felt right. I’ve been on lemmy way more lately with Sync…
Yeah it’s pretty great. I’ve actually got to watch myself because I could see myself getting hooked in an unhealthy way like I did to reddit in the bad old days.
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Personally I was a Boost fan and I’m excited for its release for lemmy. But I’m using sync in the meantime and absolutely loving it. There’s a smoothness to this app, a refinement if you will that I couldn’t find on any of the other apps. The level of customization to make my feed my own.
Totally on point… Like you, I am a boost user, but the experience here in sync so far is the best regarding all other apps… Either way, before this, I was using thunder nightly and so far so good… Now, I’m waiting for boost to decide for which one I’m gonna go as premium user…
I’ve been jumping between Jerboa, liftoff and now sync. Sync just has a smoothness that the other two apps don’t have, at least in my experience on my pixel 6 pro, scrolling and everything is butter smooth on sync, the others have some odd stutters sometimes
Baconreader user here to represent!
This is my first post too! :)
Now you are counted as an active user on Lemmy. :)
The app is beautiful. Former rif user and decided to give Sync for Lemmy a try and I’m not disappointed.
you should check out thunder i think sync is dog comparitively
all sync has going for it is a cluddered screen and ads no?
Same here
