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Boost for Lemmy is happening!

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Great news. I'm probably more likely to use Sync, but seeing not one but two well regarded Android Reddit apps migrate to Lemmy is just bloody awesome.
- Really missing Relay :(
  
  The developer has just announced that Relay will continue to function and will switch to a subscription model, so there probably won't be a Relay for Lemmy, unfortunately :(
  
  I'm not missing Relay's trackers in the paid app.
  
  I hope Relay for Lemmy becomes a thing. My fav for years.
  
  Thunder feels pretty close. Turn on compact mode + thumbnails on the right and it's visually almost identical to how I had Relay set up. It even has the short swipe to upvote, long swipe to downvote actions.
  https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder
  
  Relay is my top preference.
  
  Me too.
  
  Relay was the best. There were so many great simple features that a surprising number of Lemmy apps are missing
- Thank you for this great news!
- Three* Don't forget Slide.
  
  Great news, Slide is my favorite FOSS client from F-Droid
- If one thing the Fediverse have thought me so far is that you can use them all at the same time ;)
- Is Sync migrating too?
  
  Yes, it's going to be called Sync for Lemmy and preregistration opened two days ago. It most likely will still be some weeks before it becomes available. Ljdawson stated the target is 6 weeks, so that would be somewhere in the middle of August.
  
  Yep. https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy
  
  Yes, Sync for Lemmy has been confirmed to be in development. It has its own community and a channel on the Sync discord.
- Same. I used Boost for a while until I found Sync. I imagine the same will happen here.
  
  I went from relay to sync to boost, lol. They were all great but the customizable views were more to my taste with boost.
- I'm on Jerboa which is functionally very similar to Reddit is Fun so I'm happy with that. Like you said, good to see boost for Lemmy anyway tho
- Seriously, I can't wait to use Sync for Lemmy!
- The more the merrier!
- don't forget about infinity too
- Sync literally went off the play store about an hour ago :(
  Edit: Looks like Sync for Lemmy is happening! https://syncapps.io/
- is Sync confirmed for lemmmy/fediverse?
  
  Yep. https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy

This is what finally made me create a Lemmy account.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy
- Awesome! Thanks for the link!

Between Boost and Sync, Lemmy is emerging as a promising option because there's going to be multiple strong 3rd party apps to engage with.

Fuck yes. Boost was my favorite reddit app.

WAIT WHAT THE FUCK WHAT!?
Last time I checked dev wasn't too convinced of it!!!!!
- Ikr? I was under the impression that Mayayo wasn't interested but he probably saw the potential even more so when other former reddit 3rd party apps are switching, potentially bringing a lot of users.
  
  It was a sudden switch. My guess is he was on the fence and outpouring of support and donations from his goodbye announcement post pushed him over the fence. I'm thrilled of course, Boost was my favorite Reddit app so I look forward to trying the Lemmy version.
- It's on the Google Play store (Boost for Lemmy) as a "coming soon" app. :)
  Excellent!

As a boost user this is weird... So many people were asking in the subreddit and he never answered. I'm glad it's happening

LONG LIVE THE KING

Thank you Ruben!
It seems like the future for Lemmy is pretty bright with all these amazing apps switching over.
It's a shame that Christian decided to not develop Apollo for Lemmy for the time being. I bet that would also convince a fair share of users to abandon ship.

Can't wait. Boost is my most used app on Android and this will be great.

Hell yeah! It's my favorite reddit app by far.

This is so exciting! Boost was my app of choice for the old place. I'm glad to see this here.

Whilst waiting for the boost app to be available, I tried wefwef and its pretty fucking sweet.
Link for android home install is:
https://wefwef.app/settings/install

Here's the link
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy

Sync for Lemmy is also happening!

Yes! This is the proper response to Reddit's API changes.

I am incredibly happy to see this. Boost has been my absolutely favorite choice for a very long time

Reddit user for over 10 years, here for good. I was a long time Sync user and at some point I switched to Boost and I'm not sure why because I also purchased Sync Pro at some point. My two favorite Android apps being developed to work with Lemmy made me create a new account here and I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes.

Round 2

I think I currently have 3 Lemmy apps on my phone, currently enjoying Liftoff... But will be VERY likely to go back to Boost if to works On Lemmy :)

lol the downvoted post in one of the screenshots, the dev singled out @zac for absolutely no reason and I love it

I fucking knew it, in one of the last updates in the menu it went from "find subreddit" to "find community"

It will be good feature wise, but privacy?

I paid for Boost premium for Reddit a long time ago and will do it again just to support it here.

This damn near brought a tear to my eye. I no longer miss reddit at all.

I really like Lemmy so far even though it isn’t perfect yet. Adding a 3rd party app will make using this even easier.

first Sync, now Boost? Let's funking go!!!

Can't believe how many lemmy clients we're getting in such a short span. Exciting times ahead boys!

For some reason, Boost for Reddit is still working too 😅

I just moved here from Reddit and I'm missing Boost already. Really looking forward to this!

No waaaaay! The dev said it's not happening, I'm so glad to see he's actually doing it!

Android users desperately need a better app for browsing Lemmy than Jerboa. Boost and Sync may just be that app.

I am thrilled, Boost has been the best Reddit experience for me since I stopped loving Bsconreader. I don't even remember what my problem with it was, I think it was crashing or.... something, haha.
Boost ended up being a UI I preferred significantly, and I never looked back! This is gonna be FANTASTIC, where do I throw my money?!

I am here because of boost

FOSS?
- Boost for Reddit wasn't, so I would expect the same here.
- Are there any Foss lemmy app yet?
  
  Pretty sure just about everything except Sync, Boost, and Maybe Summit are FOSS or plan to be
  
  Most of them are! Jerboa, Liftoff, Connect and, the best of the bunch, wefwef.
- Got to support the dev of somehow. I'd happily pay for it again.

Boost and Sync were my top two over the years. Happy to see Boost is making this switch too!

Wohooo!!! Favourite app!

Oh yeah, this is definitely hot! Shoot me up there into the endless fediverse! It's time to discover all those niche galaxies riding a nice vessel!

I was a RIF user and would like to see something similar over here. RIF feed is over. Rip.

Boost wasn't just my favorite Reddit app but my favorite App in general. I love the clean design so much. When the Lemmy App is released I will launch the Rocket to the Moon

Great news! Love seeing the Lemmyverse continue to expand!

Nice, Boost was my reddit app of choice

As a long term user of Boost for reddit, I'm so hyped by this now!!!!

The promise of Boost for Lemmy is what got me to sign up.

awesome! boost was my favorite reddit app, im glad the developer sees a future in the fediverse!

Well I'm buying it once it releases.

Yes this is great! Between this and wefwef which is Apollo lookalike right now for iOS ppl this is great! Just need everyone over to Lemmy now but that'll prob take decades

I'm registered for this.... incidentally it's the first time I've ever seen pre-reg for an app before lol

I was so happy when I found this out. I hope Lemmy gets the support.

I'm a sync guy but this news has me so excited. I will try Boost for Lemmy when it comes out and likely support it anyways.

I used Boost to browse reddit. I'm definitely getting this when it's out.

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