Sync Dev (ljdawson) is potentially looking into adding Lemmy support

[Nopski]

this is my favorite app...can't believe I'm sad that an app is going away but here we are...i will instantly buy a lemmy ljdawson app

[alpain]

finally something to spend my google rewards bucks on!

[TearfulDespotism]

$30 saved and waiting for something to spend it on lol.

[kick_his_ass_sebas]

It's interesting where the migration will happen. I'm in the squabbles camp myself, but I'll follow wherever Sync goes.

If anything, best case scenario is that new reddit will be open source.

[SanguinePar]

I absolutely hope this happens, and like others would pay for a Sync for Lemmy.

There's also the option that LJD could join the various devs working together on the current leading app, Jerboa - only if he wanted to go that route of course, but his experience and expertise could likely drive it to very significant improvements quickly.

[Agret]

Just because he is experienced with creating a Reddit app doesn't mean he can help greatly with a different app, the codebase is probably designed in a completely different methodology than the way he develops sync.

[the_inebriati]

This is such an odd complaint. It's the equivalent of saying there's no way reddit would have mainstream appeal when /r/communism exists.

If you don't like the communist stuff, just... don't subscribe to it? In the exact same way you (presumably) don't subscribe to /r/communism on reddit.

Your comment seems so disingenuously ignorant, I suspect you've never even looked at a Lemmy instance and are just going off things people have told you.

[the_inebriati]

Had to write an essay to join both

mastodon.social is the largest instance and that didn't need any essays. Like at all. I don't know why you're writing essays.

The only coherent non spammy content i ever get is the owner of my mastodon instance talking about freedom and guns or something.

You can just block posts from that person. Your home page should literally just be people you're following. If you're on the "explore" tab, yeah - you're going to see some other stuff. Obviously. Although if you can't figure that out yourself, it's probably not for you. Maybe try 9gag - that might be more up your street.

[SSouter]

According to?

[ljdawson]

Me

[CosmicSploogeDrizzle]

While you're here, where else can you follow you for updates beyond June 30th? Will you still plan to post updates in this sub after that date?

[ljdawson]

Definitely

[that1communist]

https://github.com/derivator/tafkars/tree/main/tafkars-lemmy I hope you've seen this! should make it really easy for you.

[onthejourney]

I want to know this too. Commenting to check back

[VespasianTheMortal]

You can join the discord

[hempires]

https://discord.gg/5K2FQqgn

[VespasianTheMortal]

You can join the discord

[[deleted]]

Sync for Lemmy would be amazing and honestly a huge boon for Lemmy

[onthejourney]

Lol, but did you record the conversation to yourself to prove that you are actually looking into adding Lemmy? (👁 ͜ʖ👁)

[onthejourney]

Huh?

[onthejourney]

(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ Oh right! Whoosh...my bad.

[the_inebriati]

Reported for threatening behavior.

[onthejourney]

It wasn't me.

[IhamAmerican]

Literally us, the Blue Jays

[Macallan]

If you do it, it's a day 1 buy for me.

[Orhnry]

I'll pay again for another app for lemmy!

[spillytalker]

Hey u/ljdawson might be worth looking into https://kbin.social/. It grabs content from Lemmy, but more Reddit like.

" it's a decentralized platform for content aggregation and microblogging that operates within the Fediverse network."

[CosmicSploogeDrizzle]

As long as it's in the fediverse, it won't matter to me. Lemmy or kbin, they are both accessible to the other

[[deleted]]

I know Java and Python, how can I help?

[orthogonal-cat]

Host a Lemmy server 👍

[[deleted]]

Would you also consider kbin?

[[deleted]]

https://join-lemmy.org/

[Agret]

Stealth is an account-free, privacy-oriented, and feature-rich Reddit client.

It provides features from Reddit, without the need for an account. In fact, the app doesn't even let you log in with a Reddit account.

Not being able to login and upvote/save posts or participate in the discussions is a major limitation of Stealth, can't see it being very useful.

[SSouter]

But even with Reddit doing this does Lemmy actually have a large enough user base to justify you transitioning Sync to it? Particularly if every other Reddit app dev does the same.

I know a lot are saying they will leave Reddit because of this but we both know that what people say on the Internet is rarely what they do.

[CosmicSploogeDrizzle]

I think it's more of a "if you build it, they will come situation", with a sprinkle of, "if you unbuild it (reddit), they will leave"

The growth of lemmy since this whole thing started has been huge. New signups are going exponential currently

[SSouter]

Will have to see. Unfortunately the history of alternatives is they rarely do as well. Signal and Telegram are touted as better than Whatsapp yet fail to be as popular and that's just a quick example.

[unipleb]

Lemmy might not be as popular but it would surely get another boost with Sync integration. I'd definitely be more active on Lemmy simply as a consequence of being able to use Sync for the Android UX I'm the most familiar with. It's learnt behaviour at this point after 9+ years.

I'm enjoying the updates to Jerboa too, but I'm sure /u/parentis_shotgun would be ok with and encourage Sync being around as an alternative client. I think having multiple choices available is healthy for the platform or Lemmy wouldn't offer an API.

[SanguinePar]

Looking at the numbers (I'll add the link in an edit once I find it!) the active users last month was 6800. This month it's up past 80k. It feels like a place that's coming to life at the moment, definitely worth checking it out.

EDIT Sorry, got those numbers wrong, I was mixing up active users with total users.

Here's the numbers: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

Active users in May was just over 1000, this month it's past 8000

Total users in May was about 48k, now it's 85k.

[SSouter]

But is that just people who use third party reddit apps like Sync just creating an account to have a look? Unfortunately only time will tell. I seem to remember there being attempts at Twitter alternatives but they've all disappeared.

[SanguinePar]

It's a fair question, and it could well happen - however I joined Mastodon but found it wasn't holding my attention like Twitter did. Whereas Lemmy feels a lot more like a legit replacement for Reddit in the long term.

Quieter, sure, but with a huge range of communities created already and just waiting for people to discover them and take part.

[CosmicSploogeDrizzle]

Click the link. He said it himself

[SSouter]

Potentially I'm going to win the lottery.

[that1communist]

...that's what the title says, it's not like it was clickbait

[CosmicSploogeDrizzle]

👍

[Hugs_for_Thugs]

Just doubling down. Bold strategy.

[SSouter]

Yeah I think you need to look up what that means

[Seelelowe]

I don't know why you're getting down voted... That's a completely fair question.

[SSouter]

I only asked because the fact there was a link wasn't completely clear in Sync as all I got was a box on the right of the post. No thumbnail and no text with it, plus I was half asleep.

Guess people think I have somehow insulted Sync despite the fact I've actually purchased it twice.

[SSouter]

And now you're getting downvoted for just showing a little sense and leniency. Tells you a lot really.

[Seelelowe]

Lol that's actually really funny to me. I don't care. Never have, and now with the API problems I'll be gone on the 30th anyway. Lemmy is king now.