But have you tried Jerboa?

That was one well-executed dad-joke.

Fight those asswigs back

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ishmaeldaro/this-is-our-watergate

This. I've been using Jerboa ever since making the switch to Lemmy. There wasn't much of a learning curve and it basically does what I want, so I'm happy with it.

I started off using jerboa. Just installed sync to see what the fuss is about. At the core it's pretty much the same. One thing sync does better, at least on my phone, is smoother loading/rendering of content. There were times id actually use Lemmy web instead.

With that said, my favorite reddit app Boost, is working on a Lemmy client too. So I'm looking forward to that as well.

Am I ditching jerboa? No, not yet.

I put this in a other thread, but am genuinely interested in getting feedback.

I'm currently on Jerboa and downloaded/installed sync yesterday. As a former RIF user, I don't have a horse in this race. I am more familiar with Jerboa, but find the overall feel of both (admittedly, without a lot of use), to be pretty comparable.

That said, I kind of like some of the ideas in Jerboa more? For example, tap to minimize comments and their children on Jerboa is quite a bit faster. I'm kind of sad that both make selecting some of the text in a comment hard and miss the dedicated RIF collapse/expand comment tree button. Jerboa also matches the font size of everything else in my UI better than Sync. For example, the font size of this reply and my keyboard are the same in Jerboa. In Sync the in-app font size is quite a bit smaller.

At the end of the day, I think that both apps are going to be largely comparable for a fairly casual user like me. I bet both offer more functionality than I'm using, but so far I don't feel like I'm missing anything.

I've tried a few apps (Liftoff, Wifwif or whatever it was called, and now Sync). I've not stuck with any of them, despite the fact I used RiF and later Boost both for years.

They just feel too early stage. Eg, Wifwif was super sluggish and I accidentally cancelled multiple long comments I typed up by trying to scroll, which is a big oof. With Sync, I noticed the comment hierarchy was messed up and when I went to post about that, I couldn't do it from within the app because posting isn't supported yet (feels like a big thing to be missing).

So for now, I'm still just using the website. And not with the PWA, because support for multiple tabs is really great and avoids weirdness with scrolling when going back.

Side note: why do literally no apps support tabs????? Number zero feature request I've ever had, for every single app. I even noticed that Sync has a long press to open posts in background, but it's only for posts and it is rather convoluted cause it's more like opening a second instance of the app. The back button goes to my Android home screen (not back to Sync) and it is hard to navigate to what you just opened.

Mobile Chrome's tab groups feature is absolutely amazing. I hate using "normal" tabs anymore, cause the tab groups having the tabs accessible at the bottom of the screen is unbeatable.

Because third party apps are literally the point that drove a lot of people to Lemmy in the first place. It's classic selection bias.

I've been using Liftoff but Sync feels a lot more polished except what it does with the comments sometimes - showing child comments with no parent. Liftoff would show the parent comment so I don't know what's up with that.

Long time RiF user but no LiF 🤷‍♂️

Most of us were like that, but the sudden excitement we all had for the app release caused a counter-surge of people annoyed at our excitement and sometimes exaggerated statememts, which caused a lot of us to dig in our heels against the backlash in defence.

Add to that a user base used to no ads and no fees, with a user base who is okay with either, you've got the perfect ingredients for the mud soup we've found ourselves in.

I don’t understand why this gets so much talk

Because proprietary software is unethical.

Huh. Not sure what it is about this beard style and superiority but this Pic and this discussion remind me of https://xkcd.com/743

Occasionally people are just smug and superior because they are right.

I feel like I'm hanging out in a crypto community where Bitcoin maximalists are the majority... I hate it.

I mean, there is Gitlab.

For real? Is it free tho?

Damn..... But i like hamburgers!

-Sent From SyncForLemmy(tm)

but bacon

smh

Yeah, I have used sync for years. Decided to switch to Lemmy once sync announced an app in production. I used Jerboa and Connect in the meantime, but now that Sync is here, it's like sinking back into a warm bath.

I'm here because of Sync, and if it is good that I am here, it is good that Sync is here.

The Factory Lemmy must grow!!!

I installed sync yesterday and am having a really hard time getting it to work as well as Jerboa. i feel like I've been in every setting, but the layout and UX just doesn't seem nearly as good. It just feels like everything is multiple extra actions to do the same thing in Jerboa.

Like, what do you have to do to get a seamless experience in sync?

FOSS is also important too. It means free and open source software. https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software

Free in this case means something different, I'd recommend a read up on it too https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software

Yesss... I agreeee... Use what I like. I will make them use what I like!!!

It's about having the freedom to control your own devices. Proprietary software like Sync takes away that freedom, so it's unethical. We should be complaining about it.

What exactly did you not like? Using it now and it's come a huge way in just a few weeks. Of all the apps I've tried it had the most compact and quick interface.

I feel people had a lot of loading issues when instances were going down left and right which gave Jerboa an unfair reputation through no fault of its own.

I never ended up being able to log in. Even after it said they fixed the issue it kept logging me out. And don't get me started on the UI.

Sync ain't perfect. I keep accidentally collapsing comments because I was used to rif which, unlike sync, doesn't collapse comments after a long press. The fact that that is one of my biggest gripes with the app is a huge improvement over jerboa though

Agreed. They were trying their best but when your app stutters it's usually not your fault but the Frameworks.

FOSS is Free Open Source Software. All Lemmy apps except Connect and Sync are FOSS.

You can download FOSS from the same people you download RAM from.

Time to wipe his computer "by accident" and run that Linux install program.

Yeah, still liked Connect better

one true try

The bread analogy dies at the same point that the piracy argument dies. It isnt truly stealing to make a copy of something.... and it doesnt cost a developer more effort the more people that download their app.

Yes i would download a car.

I read your name as rustic titties, and I have never been more disappointed in my whole life...

Disappointed tit.

The Free Software movement has nothing to do with price. It's about freedom. We deserve to have the freedom to control our own devices. Proprietary software takes that away, so it's unethical.

Not just sync. I was a RIF user.

Install gentoo

I can't tell if your joking. I also didn't really care that much about open source software before coming here, but now I find myself searching out for open source replacements for the stuff I'm already using.

Oh, you also got the new initialization program /s

Great, next step is to memorize the GNU GPL off by heart

I've been here almost a month and I don't know what FOSS is, and at this point I'm scared to ask.

I wiped Arch and installed Fedora, am I doing it wrong?

Go back to lemmingrad /s

Literally the third post I see from Jerboa for Lemmy this morning.

😡 I see you right now, punk.

/s, well, I mean I'm using Jerboa but I'm not actually trying to be angry lol

Saw this within 30 seconds of switching to Liftoff after Jerboa just crashed lmao

I don't think I've ever been part of an online community that was this much into Linux. I mean I get it, great open source operating system to stick it to the corpos, but it feels like only a certain slice of Reddit came over and it isn't fully representative of the main Reddit population.

Then again we were mostly united about the 3rd party app thing, which a lot of Redditors didn't really care about (otherwise more would be here).

Sure. How's your day going?

In other posts, people are. :)

Scroll past the ones you don't want to see, or even block the entire community. You have a lot of control.

Same here. Infinity is here and I'm using it now

Update: I just installed Sync, and wow it's good. There's so many customization options. I miss the color coded comment indents though.

No one's saying FOSS is bad but Sync is clearly way more polished than any FOSS app.

It's a discussion about ethics. Proprietary software is unethical.

They just dropped the Android native app for Voyager too.

The amount of shilling Sync receives makes me worry that something is up with it. It's not normal that I even believe some bots and sock puppets are involved. I'm not touching it with a long stick until someone does some proper security analysis on it. I'm not dumb to fall for peer pressure. Good luck, guys!

Same.

After Sync released I tried even more other Lemmy clients because of all the other recommendations in the Sync discussion threads, and there are definitely a lot of great Lemmy apps.

But as an old Sync (for Reddit) user myself I also get the feeling of familiarity using the Sync Lemmy app, with the customizability to even adjust what each "step" of the swiping gestures does, while using other Lemmy apps I mostly feel like I'm locked to "getting used to the app". So I understand why some people are so happy to use Sync again.

That being said I do agree that it feels expensive to pay even for ad-less, and people may not like that the free version has ads. I will probably pay just for ad-less (not Ultra) once I have figured out if I like any of the other Lemmy apps better (or not.)

Free Open Source Software

Do you have a moment to speak about our Lord and savior, Richard Stallman?

Fantasticly orgasmic stray software

I've used Jerboa, Connect, Liftoff, Sync, and Infinity. The mobile site is still my favorite.

The web UI still have two features no other apps (afaik) currently have: autocomplete when mentioning someone's username (useful for e.g. summoning bots), and selecting comment language (useful for replying to posts that somehow marked as English-only, and the server's language auto-detection somehow think your comment is not written in English and rejects it)