It’s like having Reddit back, this is amazing. 🙏
For as long as I can remember Reddit and Sync have been one and the same. I never used Reddit website or app, only ever used Sync to browse Reddit hosted content. I used it a lot. I’ve missed it a lot.
Between the Lemmy platform and Sync client, to all intents and purposes what Reddit was has been fully restored/migrated.
I know it’s early days, but I did not expect to see anything like this so soon and it gives me hope that Lemmy can grow and thrive into the network of people that always made Reddit what it was. Everything that’s needed is there - early, a little rough around the edges, but there. And being improved constantly.
Hallelujah!
Yea this app going dark for a month made me realize how much I actually enjoy the experience of this app rather than reddit itself. Being forced to use the official app has pushed me away from Reddit more than ever
Lemmying from Sync right now and it brings a tear to my eye. I don’t think anything other than Sync would have made Lemmy feel “right” to me. And now it does.
He just added an £18.99 one off charge to remove ads as well. Instabuy for me. Just brilliant.
At first it felt a little steep to me, but then I remembered I’ve been using Sync since 2012.
Insta buy indeed lol. Probably double paid to remove ads and get ultra but that’s alright, it’s for a good cause and LJ deserves it.
Same!
The second that I opened the interface it was like being greeted by an old friend.
I totally get the subscription fatigue that people get. Work gave me an iPad and I was gobsmacked that a simple SSH app using open source libraries was going to cost $6.00/mo. Hell with that.
But in this instance, I feel like the subscription is worth it. The dev has proven that he is extremely active. Weekly updates on the beta channel for the original Reddit version.
Am I reading this wrong? It is $134.99 Canadian for the one time charge.
That’s for Ultra. The other purchase is under “Remove Ads”. Ultra comes with some extra features, like cloud storage.
100 USD for me.
That’s for lifetime ultra. Check the sidebar for remove ads option. Should be $24
I couldn’t said it better myself. After 12 years on reddit, here I am! Joined as soon as sync launched and after some Eli5 of Lemmy, I’m ready for it.
All tips for interesting instances or give me some tips about what I should check out, or catch up on, it would be appreciated .
I usually recommend Lemmyverse as the place to find the biggest/most active communities, or search for specific ones.
I also recommend following !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl on which a bot gives daily posts with upcoming/growing communities.
I don’t consider myself to be “Lemmying” or “Redditing”… I’m “Syncing”
Helllll yeah!!
I just got access to Sync for Lemmy! Very nice. I hope the developer of rif would also make a lemmy client.
Seems like the rif dev made an app for tildes instead
Yeah I know. kinda disappointed about that.
It’s one of the downsides of the reddit reckoning: there are so many different fediverse communities/sites now that existing subreddit communities have been split across different sites.
What’s Tildes? Another Reddit clone?
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Strange I didn’t stumble upon it until now, seems to be active since 2019.
Being invitation only probably hasn’t helped spread the word out, and when I’ve seen it brought up, the strict moderation has brought out complaints.
Not attacking the platform for those things, their house, their rules, but I could see where that keeps them more under the radar.
It was a community built by a former Reddit backend developer, Deimos. He also built the subredditsimulator subs and automoderator, and is looking to purposefully cultivate an online community that avoids some of the common pitfalls, mainly:
- Gravitating over time towards low-effort, lowest common denominator clickbait.
- A culture of lawful-evil trolls who “follow the rules” but are ultimately assholes who ruin the vibe.
Personally I love what he’s done with the place. It’s small, but it’s big enough and I find that the quality of comments is far better than what you might find in most corners of the internet. I’ve also got a few invites if anyone wants to check it out.
Also the Tildes app is astoundingly good for what the developer is calling an “alpha”.
I see, I myself am not really against the idea of strict moderation. So many times, on many sites where I had some sort of moderation powers, I’ve always wanted to just fucking ban people who tip toe around breaking the rules or being assholes, but not quite breaking the barrier.
Yes, with an emphasis on no jokes or memes, serious discussion only.
Same, just got the notification!
I’m waiting for Boost since that’s what I was used to, but this looks great too :)
I’m also a former Boost user, bit this a really nice app. I may switch to Boost when it comes out, but I will admit I’ve grown attached to gesture controls.
I’m still more a fan of relay which is staying for reddit but this is pretty nice.
just got sync installed a few minutes ago, feels so good to have a proper UI for endless scrolling now :)
Duuuude same here. Feels good.
Same! Found this using Jerboa app, it’s OK but so far this feels a bit more… I don’t know, user friendly or something
Sync has had over 10 years to refine the user experience.
Downloaded just now, looks great! But I don’t really enjoy the subscription model. Why not make one lifetime purchase of let’s say $20 or something? Monthly or yearly payments are a no for me. But paying even a little bit more for a lifetime would be working.
Same here, would buy the lifetime purchase straight away but holding off on the subscription, given the ad-free experience is the only thing I care about.
Exactly what I came here to say. I had purchased Sync Ultra (or whatever it was called) in the reddit app and was really happy with the experience. First thing I went to do upon installing the new one was go to purchase again and was really disappointed to see a monthly subscription and no one-time purchases option. Then I was even more disappointed to see ads in the feed. I mean, I get why the developer went this route, but it really sucks. I don’t want another running subscription to think about. I have enough of those as it is.
I might be mistaken, but I don’t think Sync Ultra is the same thing as the ad-free sync premium. Sync Ultra is a subscription because it adds functionality that requires cloud resources, not just removes ads.
Sync ultra in the original reddit app had a one-time payment option as well.
Give me Sync NotQuiteUltra without cloud garbage and just charge me the 1 time fee then.
What functionality?
- Ad free
- Cloud backup
- Highlight users
- Tag users
- Translate text
- Select text from images
- Push notifications
- Saved folders
- Import / export subscriptions
Source: The sync ultra description from in-app
Neither of which requires running a server.
It all depends on how you implement it. He describes the text from images as using machine learning, which implies using an external API to do that translation.
Storing cloud backups requires a server and storage, etc.
which implies using an external API to do that translation
It doesn’t. You can have local models.
Storing cloud backups requires a server and storage, etc.
Yes, it doesn’t have to be the author’s storage. Many, many apps implement it as adding the data to your Google Drive / Dropbox / whatever.
Alternatively, Sync had so many updates that paying for Ultra once so many years ago felt like I stole it. It’s like $17 a year? I could do that easily to support the dev.
A one-time Lifetime payment option would be phenomenal.
Looks like he’s got plans to have a one time paid option
It’s available now for $20
I’m not a fan of subscriptions either but come on, it’s 17 dollars a year.
I’d pay 20 a year if it were split 50/50 with the instance I select as my default… I mean the instances need to pay for bandwidth and hosting somehow. I get it, devs need to eat too, but pay it forward.
I think it’s definitely reasonable to expect that the app will continue to improve and there is no lifetime charge that would cover that.
The time is now to encourage and support development of the things you like and that also includes your favorite Lemmy instance itself.
Also please ditch the Google Play billing. It’s the reason I had to switch to Relay for Reddit, because I simply won’t have the spyware, that is Google Play Services, on my phone.
I get that lifetime subscriptions are much more palatable to users but I don’t think it works if you consider that users will want lifetime support as well. So for maybe 20$ you’ll get theoretically years of even decennias of support, ignoring inflation, new bugs and security concerns, etc. It just doesn’t make sense and I wouldn’t expect it from a dev.
I don’t really expect support. I guess bugs get fixed along the way no matter if the user pays monthly, or once. I get the appeal of a subscription for devs, but for users it is not so nice.
Yeah but who fixes the bugs? Why would they fix bugs continuously?
This.
It feels like old reddit sync experience. I am glad the app is back.
Right? Its funny that I thought I missed Reddit when in fact all I was missing was Sync.
Just downloaded. I have not been this happy for months.
My first comment, feels good to be using a Sync app again. My Reddit usage has dropped considerably so I’ve had extra time to waste…
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Yup. This release finally brought me over here. I haven’t logged into Reddit since Sync died over there
Same here. My usage of Reddit has strictly been through the website when I’m searching for answers to technical stuff. I’m happy to use Sync again.
Just FYI the actual term is “mass exodus,” but I love your way of putting it, too! Actually it sounds, like, more bad ass
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This app looks and feels super solid. I didn’t use sync for Reddit, but this feels and looks smooth as hell. Secondly going to use this and keep looking to see how all the apps are progressing.
I’ve never been as excited for an app to be released as this one!
Been a sync user since day 1 and I’m looking forward to continuing to support it.
I used RIF, but I remember a lot of people loved sync for reddit, so I plan to jump on the bandwagon.
A fellow RiFugee
I wish they had chosen Lemmy instead. I loved that app and still haven’t had the heart to delete from my phone.
I’ve been using an app called Summit for Lemmy, and it feels very RiF-esque. RiF was the only way I used Reddit, and it’s made the transition very easy. In fact, in some ways, I feel it’s done some quality of life stuff even better than RiF did, like color coding comment chains, which makes it easier to keep track of who’s responding to who.
Y’all I have missed this app. Jerboa is fine but sync just feels so much better.
It feels good to be home, fam
Finally… inner peace.
Wrapping Sync around Lemmy has made interfacing with the fediverse so nice, you don’t get this kind of quality from anyone but a passionate developer.
I stopped using reddit entirely. Sync was reddit. Glad to have it back!
Reddit had become a new Instagram experience with the native app . I’m completely biased to Dutch sub Reddits now which is something I thought I wanted from sync for a long time. I should have stayed naive
Any chance for a paid version but not a subscription? I would dump money into that so fast.
Click on ‘remove ads’ instead of sync ultra.
Im Loving this so much
Never been so excited for an app install lol
