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Hm, what exactly? It doesn't seem to have any particularly remarkable features ๐คจ
Sounds like you didn't actually try the app. It's super fast and smooth. Lots of customization, great UI. I happily pay for that effort.
Sync will surely make the lemmy ecosystem more attractive and bring in a ton more people, which is a great thing for everyone here whether you use the app or not.
Ok, so I have been trying out Sync... and well, yes, the UI is slightly better, but most of the "fancy" stuff is only in the paid version... which is kind of steep for stuff I could wait a year or two without.
Most interesting feature I've seen, is the search function, but it still fails in many places, so that's somewhat bittersweet. Curiously, it's one of the free ones, so... well, I guess I'll leave it installed for a while and see how things go.
More people isn't great. It's how social media begin to sink. It was like this on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.
Yeah, Google+ was such a hit thanks to its lack of users
There is an optimum. But, the more is the best isn't true for communities and social media.
Maybe, but we are waaaay under that "optimum" right now, so for now the more is the best
Optimum doesn't mean a lot or infinity. It varies from community to community and social platform to social platform.
Reddit peaked sometimes ago. But Lemmy is not reddit and it's not focused on the grow.
The problem with those sites was not the amount of users.
Tons of more options and a faster and smoother interface. And moving subscriptions across instances is coming. And it has cloud sync.
But I agree, it's quite pricy for the extra bells and whistles.
Migrating accounts across instances is a pending Lemmy core feature, the server part has to sort that out.
Liftoff's interface seems fast and smooth to me, only thing I might be missing is some sort of "multireddits" or Mastodon-like "timelines" to sort things out a bit better, but using multiple accounts kind of works too.
I mean it's probably better if the server has it, but it can be implemented client side too. All the information about a users subs is right there in the api.
And it feels like the server devs have their hands full, so features like this could be quite some time.
This sounds exactly like the conversations we have at work. Cries in frontend.
I'm backend. :)
Can you PLEASE not send empty result sets with a next token then?
I mean... That's the only fun we have around here.
That's entirely fair. That's why I went more frontend. The tiniest visual tweak always ends in negative feedback. It's super fun.
The language on Sync Ultra is "Import / export subscriptions (Easily move between instances)"
Nothing more than what the free apis do.
Well yeah, but I think the apis are enough. There are already utilities using those apis to copy subscriptions.