The developer of Sync for Reddit is working on a Lemmy app
Reddit - Dive into anything
New subreddit talking about it here. I'm assuming it will eventually be a Lemmy community
Lol I clicked the link and reddit showed
This community has not been reviewed and might contain content inappropriate for certain viewers. View in the Reddit app to continue.
With the only two options being continue in the app or take me home
If you edit the URL and remove everything before reddit.com and the change it to old.reddit.com you can view it without the app
Yup. Same here.
I can't follow this logic of Reddit's. Ohh, a community hasn't been reviewed to ensure it's safe? Oh, a community is NSFW? Gee golly, if you're on a mobile phone you'll have to use our app to look at it! We can't have that open to the internet (unless you're on desktop then you're all good, until we make an official desktop app)
It's just their excuse to make you use their shitty app
That's hilarious!
Wow, tried to view it on my mobile and just got a pop up from reddit saying it's unreviewed content and I should be careful, ONLY giving me the options either to leave or download the official reddit app to view it.
What a fucking shit show.
This accelerated my plans to join Lemmy immensely and, et voila. Sync is probably the best software app I have on my phone, simply from a design perspective.
https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy
This is the new community on Lemmy
Edit of course it's a lemmy.world community. Sorry guys, I'm not on the beehaw instance so I see both.
As someone who paid for Sync Pro, I would gladly pay the developer again for a Lemmy app. I just hope /u/ljdawson won't opt for a "subscription" based app.
100%. The few bucks I spent on Sync Pro were some of the best dollars I've spent.
Thank god. Sync is the app I was using before this entire shitshow.
Really hope Relay does the same
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I'm genuinely excited though. I've been a long time sync user, and I'd love to see similar features available for Lemmy!
like if the app is serving different content than the browser....
If Boost for Reddit shifts to Lemmy/kbin, I would be overjoyed.
Best news all day!
And Boost will apparently be included as a patchable app in ReVanced Manager, allowing any user to use thir own API. i'm sure there could have been a very sensible way for 3rd party app developers continue their amazing work and Reddit get a share of the profits...This Elon Effect is stupid to a default
!syncforlemmy@lemmy.world Does this work?
Will there be a version of the app for iOS?
Thank goodness, sync was the app that worked the best for me! Awesome to see more apps coming out already
Just WOW! I'm using SyncPro for 9+ years, I'll support this app for sure!!!
In a few months we’ll probably have a dozen Lemmy apps. Sync, Mlem, Memmy (which I’m typing this from), Artemis, and several others I’ve seen posts about are already in development. Excited to see what people create!
@Beeko @chloyster Hmm I wonder if these apps be compatible with #Kbin as both use #ActivityPub.
If they want to succeed they must be.
Artemis is specifically supporting kbin
Mlem is a good beginning, but I hope for an Apollo-level quality app for Lemmy. It'll come, in time. And perhaps SyncForLemmy will be just that!
That is our goal with Mlem. And trust me, our team is working, as absolutely fast as we can! Keep in mind, though, we’re starting from scratch. 😁
There is another new app that seems to be taking some inspiration from Apollo. It's also meant to work with kbin (kbin support first since it lacks any apps currently). https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp
There's also Memmy. https://testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD
But it's also unfinished
I’m testing Memmy and it’s rapidly being amazing, super impressed
And Thunder (ios and android) https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder
Have to assume it’ll be Android-only like Sync for Reddit is/was, right?
There was a Sync for iOS beta at one point... in the dark days before Apollo.
Dream come true right there. I used sync since 2012? 2013? A long damned time anyways, and I'd love to continue.
If- redditisfun was ported to use lemmy- the circle of life would be completed.
The circle of lif.
I misread your message and just saw "redditisfun was ported to Lemmy" and got very excited for a very short time.
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hoping for baconreader, personally
I've never used Sync but I just installed it and it's pretty slick. This is fantastic news indeed.
This is fantastic news. By far the best Reddit app for Android, so I have no doubt the lemmy version will also be fantastic.
That seems quite exciting, I'm personally hoping to see a platform agnostic Lemmy application available for desktop operating systems as that would be a really nice and convenient way for users to interact.
If you're running W11, you can run Android applications through the windows subsystem for Android, much like the w subsystem for Linux.
Or, blue stax is quite good in my experience
That's a good point, There is a way to get WSA running on Windows 10 through a few third party tools although I don't currently have access to documentation for that and I also ran into issues with configuring those repositories accordingly. Also I do feel like BlueStacks is quite bloated although Android Studio for virtualization and scrcpy for wirelessly controlling and viewing a phone works well for applications that aren't games.
Obviously lemmy.world isnt the ideal location for beehaw users to follow but you dont need to be logged in to view content so I'd suggest just browsing the syncforlemmy community natively for now. Right now there are no official posts by ljdawson anyways.
Seems like a consequence of beehaw's actions
it may seem that way, but that's not accurate. something had to be done to stem the trolls and lemmy doesn't provide any tools for less severe action.
Ahhh! Yes!!! Sync is my baby, dripfeeding my mainline supply of reddit for the last several years. Bought the lifetime and don't regret it. I'm excited!
Nice :D
That's my favorite reddit client. I was hoping someone would do a similar client for Lemmy. This is great news, I'd totally buy a paid version of Sync for Lemmy just to support the developer.
ive never got to use any third-party app for reddit, just the official one... as matter of fact i just discovered that such thing existed when the current crisis began lol. since i decided to flee of that dictatorial ship and now found myself here, kinda lost, id like to ask u guys if this "Sync for Reddit" was good and if we can expect the lemmy version to be as well (ofc, taking into acc the differences between both platforms).
im asking that to be able deciding if i should watch it up close or nah. thanks guys
It was the best. I have tried most reddit apps but that one could be customized exactly how I wanted and it was great. Definitely one to keep an eye on.
Sync was by-far the best way to access Reddit on Android
How's Sync compared to Reddit Is Fun? I've never used the former
Sync was my favorite reddit app personally, its not the most similar to RIF though. As far as I understand RIF was more like old.reddit.com. Sync utilizes a lot of modern UI choices but the layout has always been really nice and has had amazing customization
Not like RIF, more modern space wasting with the 'card' approach. Although I'm not sure about customisation, I just remember trying it and it had the same design 'flaws' every other had until I stumbled into RIF, which was perfect.
Would love a RIF-like app.
I think Christian mentioned he isn't planning to port Apollo to Lemmy, but I haven't given up hope just yet!
I didn’t know that, he say why?
He mentioned it in his "Apollo will close down on June 30th" post on /r/ApolloApp (I'm linking it here, but here's the quote so you don't have to gift Reddit your traffic):
Will you build a competitor? Move to one of the existing alternatives?
I've received so many messages of kind people offering to work with me to build a competitor to Reddit, and while I'm very flattered, that's not something I'm interested in doing. I'm a product guy, I like building fun apps for people to use, and I'm just not personally interested in something more managerial.
These last several months have also been incredibly exhausting and mentally draining, I don't have it in me to engage in something so enormous.
this has been my reddit app for over a decade!!! this just made my entire day!!