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I don't know if this is just a placebo effect, but it feels like there's a lot more socialization and faster upvotes in the past hour Sync was released.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 227 points 1 year ago (25 children)

I signed up for lemmy when Reddit started pulling it's shit. But I didn't really do anything here until today when sync informed me that the lemmy app was available.

I bet I'm not the only one.

[โ€“] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Nope. I've messed around with other apps but nothing comes close to Sync.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 133 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sync drastically reduces the barrier to using Lemmy for sure.

I appreciate the vanilla Lemmy experience but Sync has my muscle memory / usage habits after all. And it fixes some of my UX complaints that seem mildly annoying but enough to disengage me from the browsing session.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 127 points 1 year ago (6 children)

ljdawson's decision to develop a Lemmy app played a significant part in locking down our decision to bring /r/android to [email protected].

[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Syncforlemmy has 12.8k subscribers.

Loads of them were poised ready to strike once the beta launched.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Spez's biggest mistake was sending all the world class 3rd party developers working to make Reddit better straight to his biggest competitor.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 112 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sync makes Lemmy feel like a better version of Reddit, or an old school version of Reddit. It's great for Lemmy and old Reddit users.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 111 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

s in the past hour

Since Saturday lemmy.ml and lemmy.world were not sending content correctly. The problem seems cleared up now.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 104 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think it has a lot to do with the algorithm. I don't know what he did but I'm not seeing duplicate posts anymore and I love it. Most things are from the past 24 hours instead of week old posts. Going from connect to sync made a massive difference for me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

It's also such a smoother, less-laggy experience overall. Everything is quick and painless.

[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm also seeing this take place on the desktop site. The Sync admin can't really do anything algorithmically as that isn't supported by the API

He could request top posts in X time frame, like last 4 hours or so and then do manual sorting, but it seems more likely that it's just an influx of users as a result of the app releasing.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At least the experience scrolling through lemmy now is 100x better.

[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

It's night and day, Jerboa felt like an app from 2010

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[โ€“] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it has a clean interface and many people were waiting for the app to be released before they jumped on, at least that's the case for me, I used jerboa a bit but is a bit too clunky after being used to sync for so many years

[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Honestly, I'm sticking with Thunder. They look nearly the same, and Thunder is FOSS. Loved Sync, but I've found my new home.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As someone who signed up back when third party apps died for Reddit, this is my first post. I tried a few of the apps for Lemmy, but I couldn't get into it. I tried Sync a couple of hours ago, and it just works. I can see that being the case for others.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I literally was waiting for sync to be released to use Lemmy.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I could easily imagine people from reddit testing out sync. I am frankly shocked by how mature it already feels.

It's already a full fledged Lemmy app.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I call it plausible. The Sync UI is considerably more efficient than the Lemmy web UI. And many of us refugees were 3rd party app users and some of us were Sync users. I have been commenting more since this morning. Surely I am not alone in that?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It seems like it. I see a lot of people posting that they were using X app but sync is better.

I agree sync is an amazing app, both formerly for Reddit, and now for Lemmy, but huge kudos to the developers of existing Lemmy apps for working hard to make the mobile experience as good as possible for us Reddit refugees. I used connect until sync came out, and noticed it was frequently updated. I'd highly recommend everyone support their favourite app developer(s) in whatever way possible. Thanks Kuro!!

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can't use the phrase "X app" anymore without confusing people thanks to Musk.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

Sync is great. Good ui = more users :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it's just because it's so easy to browse again, I'm just seeing a lot more stuff

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[โ€“] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (15 children)

For whatever is worth, this is my first post ever on the fediverse...

[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably will increase even more as more and more users want to try Lemmy.

Probably they try to sign up for Lemmy.world and experience technical issues due to ddos, unfortunately.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I don't mind lemmy.world being recommended to newcomers as it's run by an established and reliable admin (so it's unlikely to just disappear), but it might be a good idea to start recommending lemm.ee as an alternative, too.

Their admin is also great, it's also general-purpose, and they are federated with most instances. It would help spread the load a bit, and would shield newcomers from suffering through the frequent attacks .world have been subjected to recently.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes because the shit that shows up inside of sync is the same way that it did on Reddit. For a lot of users, I bet Reddit was sync. The shit that shows up inside the users probably don't care where it comes from.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm finding the sync experience far nicer than Jerboa so far, not surprised. Jerboa fails to load comments half the time and I get errors constantly that stop content refreshes.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not just you because sync is arguably the most usable and pretty Lemmy client and it actually got me to finally make an account because it gives me the closest experience to reddit yet

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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lemmy felt buggy AF for me. Web client or Jerboa. Sync for Lemmy is so smooth already, it feels like business as usual to me.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

I see myself commenting more cheerfully. Shows that the user interface can make loads of difference

[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Was thinking the same. Most posts have none to a couple comments. I'm seeing posts with hundreds of comments and up votes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm logged in and able to comment and engage. before Sync I was just browsing

That's my experience anyway

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[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

I feel I can actually learn and use lemmy now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't be here if it weren't for Sync.

[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lots of users swear by the app. They would use it if they could. They can now, for Lemmy.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can confirm, I'm only here because Sync released. I tried using Lemmy sooner but I only browse from mobile and use a foldable, I couldn't live without fold/2 pane portrait support (I had also stopped using Reddit for the same reasons).

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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I mean...I just created an account today because of this release haha

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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I know I started being active here because of Sync, so I'd assume plenty others did too. Honestly I wish there was a Sync-like frontend for most apps, it's just the perfect experience in my book.

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I was waiting for Sync, and just signed up for my Lemmy account today because of it and I can imagine that there are a decent amount of people doing the same. I have no idea as for the actual metrics, just based on seeing relevant posts.

As for the criticisms of the ad portion of the app, I'm happy to ensure a sustainable way the app/site can continue as long as it's clearly communicated and transparent. And I would imagine the dev would have an option for a one time payment to avoid ads, as per the original Sync.

Happy to be here :)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been noticing this too! Granted I've only been here since the Great Exodus (Redditfugee) but it seems like things have been popping off on all the Instances I'm subscribed to today. I can't help but feel as though we're experiencing a Golden Age in the history of Lemmy

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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

The fact I can use it on my phone more easily means I certainly will use it more

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

i love it ! it increases the functionality of lemmy that's why users are more engaging

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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I'm here because of sync. I'll be using boost for lemmy also.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I joined Lemmy during the big migration, but none of the apps I tried felt quite right. And even though I never used Sync for Reddit (I was a relay user), Sync for Lemmy instantly felt polished.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Glad people are loving Sync. A bit surprised that people are saying that there is finally a good mobile UX for Lemmy though.

I was an Apollo user on Reddit and have been using Voyager for Lemmy. The experience on my phone ( other than content ) has been near indistinguishable. If I had both apps, I would barely be aware of which one I was in.

Anyway, awesome that people are loving Sync.

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