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Sync for lemmy

If sync become a lemmy client I would be so happy.

Coming over to Lemmy feels right, but this shit is so jank to use and I wish it was less incoherent and easier to make an account in order to comment.

This is the announcement that got me here. I'm going to spend a few more days simping for Lemmy and answering any questions I can as a novice end-used, and then I'll delete my 11yo Reddit account this weekend. I'm feeling really good about Lemmy right now though. Hopefully this has staying power for enough of us.

Watching everyone saying goodbye to their apps they spent so much work on over the years is painful. It’s going to be even harder over the days until June 30th

The dominos are really falling quick. Apollo, RIF, and Sync all in the last few hours. That spez AMA tomorrow is gonna be spicy

As a long time Sync user, this really hurts. To me, and a lot of others, Sync was Reddit. It was the only way I really consumed content, apart from the occasional Google search filtered for Reddit results. It was absolutely the only way I participated.

Wishing the best for the dev, and I'm hoping they eventually make another great app for Lemmy.

Press F to pay respects. I've been using Sync for many years now. Sad.

Sync WAS Reddit for me. I tried out the OEM app, and good grief is it awful. If Reddit wants to turn into Facebook, they can do it without me - and, by the sounds of things, without the majority of their main content creators. I'm very sad about the end of an era, but at the same time looking forward to seeing how Lemmy works out.

Honestly if it wasn't for sync I wouldn't have used reddit nearly as much, It will be a shame to see it go

Boo. Sync was the app I used.

This was the only ever reddit app I used and it was perfect in every way. What a shame.

So I'm pretty much an Apple person now. I have my iPhone, my iPad, my MacBook, Apple Watch, AirPods Max - you get the point.

But this has been the past 5 years or so. Before then I was heavily an Android person. And at the time, I was kind of into Reddit, but then I got (what it was then called) Reddit Sync.

It was absolutely phenomenal. Blew me away. By far the best user experience for reddit I've ever experienced.

Eventually I moved to iOS. I tried so many iOS reddit apps, and quite frankly, they all sucked - until Apollo came along. I think you know how popular Apollo is.

With that said, the guy behind it promised an iPad mode and kept promising it until this year he went "yeah actually it ain't coming anytime soon". All the while this dude kept nagging people to get his stupid Apollo Ultra subscription, which was incredibly aggressive. Dude really liked the subscription model.

I picked up one of my old Android phones from my mobile dev days (OnePlus 7 Pro for those who care) and opened Sync. Absolutely beautiful, but it failed to load as I deleted my reddit account the moment they announced these API changes.

I went ahead and paid for the lifetime subscription as a way of saying thanks for all the hard work over the years (Sync has been going on for much longer than Apollo and has and supports tablets too!! What a concept!!). ljdawson seemed like a genuinely nice and friendly person who genuinely cared about his app, perhaps even more so than the profits (which is so unbelievably rare).

It was a good run, ljdawson, but you absolutely killed it 🍻

This is the one that hurts for me. I guess I'll have a lot more time on my hands after this month, which isn't a bad thing.

Sync is such an incredible app. I've used it for the better part of 8 years.

Just bought Ultra to show gratitude to ljdawson and then deleted Sync off my phone. It's been awesome using Sync all these years. Reddit will suck without it.

It's a huge shame. Sync was the last non-FOSS app I still used, it was UST too good to give up. Reddit didn't deserve it.

I would rotate between Sync and Boost when I had Android. I think both are great and are the best reddit apps I used on Android. This makes me sad for current Android users. I was happy to pay for both when I was on there. And did so.

Time to move forward. Find a new home. I don't know if I'll never go on Reddit again. But I'm done with that place mentally and won't pursue anything on there ever again.

Went out for drinks with my brother this eve, we had a bit of a conversation about the Reddit shitshow.

He uses Sync, and he pretty much said he'd nuke his Reddit account if Spez doubled down. He's been an active user since the days where Digg co-existed.

I don't think this is going to outright kill the site, but imagine the hit if millions of users collectively abandoned Reddit.

I didn't even know there were third party apps for reddit, but I looked into them and was going to buy Sync if we won. Stellar app - Icm saddened to see it go.

Speaking of which, are there any app recommendations for Lemmy that yall like? The web ui is fine on mobile, but it would be nice to have swipe gestures and the like.