Looks like this might be a thing now!
https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsync/comments/14e7ikp/lets_talk_about_lemmy/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SyncforLemmy/
Glad ljdawson is going to try to make this a thing!
ljdawson
My plan is to get an MVP out in the next 3-6 weeks.
What should make the first release?
Ha ha ha! Spez is really pushing it.
They really scared about Lemmy? Being so blatant about this shit... I have learned the following:
All these points are correct imo
https://thomashunter.name/posts/2023-06-19-how-to-delete-reddit-account-gdpr-ccpa
Looks like it's not that easy
i thought the nsfw shit was bad but my god
Oh god, the loss of Sync was legitimately the straw that broke reddit's back for me. I would instantly pay Laurence for this
this is the way
I am ALL for this!! I was a sync pro user for years!! Miss that app now that I'm done with reddit.
Hell yes! Sync was my reddit app of choice, and I will for sure migrate to this full time once it is out!
Huzzah! I had only just voted earlier today in the sync subreddit for a lemmy app and already @ljdawson@lemmy.world is on the case. You rock dude!
Can’t wait for good Lemmy apps. The web experience has left a lot to be desired. The main feed doesn’t even have side-scrolling turned off. You try to scroll down on your phone and wind up pulling the page sideways.
Woo! I may actually spend more time on the Fediverse. I was a RiF user, but I'll happily pay for Sync and spend more time here too.
Let's be patient with this and not give him a hard time. For those of you who haven't used Sync before, there was a major update a while back which caused strong emotions from many people and caused the developer to take a hiatus. Please be patient and kind and the result will be worth it!
I used it just some months ago and discovered the best thing ever, care to explain the drama?
It had to do with how the cards were presented and how the quick menu and swipe up/down worked. I preferred the previous way but the new way worked just fine. Just took an extra click to use it how I wanted.
It came down to changing how it looked / worked after everyone was already used to how it currently was. People get upset for no good reason sometimes and this was one of those times.
Hell yeah
Reddit says r/SyncForLemmy is an unreviewed sub and that I should open it in their app.
Lmao what? They can't even stick to their deadline and need to expedite the inconvenience?
really excited for this. for me the death of sync is the death of reddit so sync for lemmy means lemmy is my new home.
Would it be closed source?
Good app, but with many trackers, and it wouldn't work without Google services one day (anti piracy measure?).
I'd presume so based on reddit sync (monitization primarly from ads and iap). Apollo's dev at one point made another app (primarly for killing amp links) that was paid and open sourced it, however he had issues with low effort copycats.
https://github.com/christianselig/Amplosion
The bright side of a closedsource app is in certain cases it can encourage faster development since the dev can work on it part/fulltime (idk how syncs revenue worked).
To be clear the post above is my personal view (I could be completly wrong).
Is this going to work for Kbin or do I need a lemmy account?
1 to this, would rather the app supports logging into a fediverse server instead of just lemmy
Lemmy, kbin, Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Friendica... They all use different APIs, and those APIs need to be supported separately by developers if they want their app to be compatible with all of them.
ernest is talking about changing the kbin API to be more in line with lemmy's, which would allow apps made for lemmy to also work with kbin, but they wouldn't, for instance, work with (or possibly even know about) kbin's microblogging feature.
Sorry, i have no idea what this is. Anyone able to give me a rundown
Sync is one of the big mobile apps for reddit that is getting shut down on the 30th with reddit's API changes.