• Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    it’s disappointing seeing so many people here excited about something that is not (and apparently not planning to be) free open source software :(

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      2 years ago

      I def prefer people contribute to the existing open source apps (or make new ones), but overall the more the merrier. I’m happy when anyone builds something for the lemmy ecosystem.

    • CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 years ago

      I think it’s more of people wanting to stick with the developers and apps that they have used on reddit. Some of which have been using and supporting for almost a decade. It also means more of an endorsement for Lemmy, as some reddit sync users wouldn’t consider Lemmy otherwise. Lastly, a significant number of power users (those that actually post, comment, and otherwise contribute) use third party apps over the official app, meaning that having support for these apps on Lemmy will hopefully bring over quality users and not just a larger quantity users.

      That’s my take on it, and I am someone very pro open source.

  • Aragorn@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    This is exciting! Glad to see Lemmy will be getting so much more attention!

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    2 years ago

    This is absolutely fantastic news! Sync was pretty much my only way of browsing reddit for a long time. This should make the transition much easier.

    BTW: Hi everyone, that’s my first comment on Lemmy!

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    2 years ago

    Of course Reddit wants you to either sign in or use the app to view the subreddit. I’ve never used any 3rd party app for Reddit, using Jerboa currently for Lemmy. Curious what Sync will bring!

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    2 years ago

    Awesome. I uninstalled Sync after they stated it would be going down on July 1st because of the updates. It was the a great app. Looking forward to this.

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    2 years ago

    By the way, is there a working Lemmy client in the iOS app store that is out of testflight?

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    2 years ago

    This is really cool for Android users. If Apollo came to lemmy, that would be the biggest kick in the teeth for Reddit.

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    2 years ago

    Would be great to have other mobile apps fill the gap, so that the devs can focus more heavily on the main site instead of Jerboa.

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      2 years ago

      FWIW, I highly doubt the devs are focused on anything but the Lemmy API right now. In fact, I also doubt they’ve slept in a month.

    • Liar™️@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Baconreader as of now isn’t moving to Lemmy either ☹️ big sad here, probably my favorite interface.

    • (っ◔◡◔)っ @lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      2 years ago

      That’s too bad, I moved to boost from sync awhile ago because I didn’t like the way the dev of sync was constantly changing the ui and then announced he was going to put some future features behind another (subscription) pay wall, despite being told when you buy the app thst you’d have access to all development features.

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      2 years ago

      Sync for Reddit is a popular reddit 3rd party app. Since Reddit is gonna kill them, the developer decided to do Sync for Lemmy instead, but is gonna take him 3 to 4 weeks to get some kind of beta.

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    2 years ago

    It says subscribe pending when I subscribe to those from here