I don’t know if this is just a placebo effect, but it feels like there’s a lot more socialization and faster upvotes in the past hour Sync was released.
s in the past hour
Since Saturday lemmy.ml and lemmy.world were not sending content correctly. The problem seems cleared up now.
Because it has a clean interface and many people were waiting for the app to be released before they jumped on, at least that’s the case for me, I used jerboa a bit but is a bit too clunky after being used to sync for so many years
Honestly, I’m sticking with Thunder. They look nearly the same, and Thunder is FOSS. Loved Sync, but I’ve found my new home.
Tbh I like what Thunder could become. It’s great, but not there yet for me.
I feel I can actually learn and use lemmy now.
Probably will increase even more as more and more users want to try Lemmy.
Probably they try to sign up for Lemmy.world and experience technical issues due to ddos, unfortunately.
I don’t mind lemmy.world being recommended to newcomers as it’s run by an established and reliable admin (so it’s unlikely to just disappear), but it might be a good idea to start recommending lemm.ee as an alternative, too.
Their admin is also great, it’s also general-purpose, and they are federated with most instances. It would help spread the load a bit, and would shield newcomers from suffering through the frequent attacks .world have been subjected to recently.
That argument is silly (instances may disappear).
It’s the other way around - if small instances don’t get users, they may decide to shut down.
So if you want a healthy fediverse, you should encourage many instances. Otherwise it becomes like reddit.
or if instances get too large they need more resources and may not be able to afford to keep going
The argument about instances disappearing has less to do with size and more to do with who runs it. Ruud having a track record with Mastodon.world suggests .world won’t be another vlemmy situation.
Lemmy.sdf.org is another great instance to recommend for the same reason.
Probably not a good idea to support just a few instances with reputation because that again eliminates 99% of instances from the Lemmy network.
I rather see it grow than to become a handful of people running instances. The more the better. It’s the same mindset as in open source I think. Everyone contributes and feels included.
I’m speaking from the viewpoint of onboarding newcomers, many of whom are not going to be tech-savvy. Keep in mind one of the most common complaints from people hesitant to try out Lemmy is that it seems “too complicated”. Sure, you could tell them:
“Okay, first go to the Fediverse Map and find some instances that are hosted close to your geographical location. Look at their stats and find a couple that seem to have good uptime. Now go explore each of them and look at what rules and policies they have, how their admins are behaving and what their plans for funding are medium-long term. Then just pick the one that comes out best in this evaluation!”
This is how I signed up where I did, but let’s be realistic and accept that this will not be a viable pitch to onboard most people.
A lot more active.
No one’s been able to post using that app yet.
But you can upvote and comment. OP didn’t specifically say posts, just increases in upvotes and socialization
Aaaaaaand this is how I found out it was released. Thank you.
I’ve been trying to follow, but clearly I missed it - anyone know if there’s an iOS client in the works, or will this be Android only?
Don’t count on an iOS Sync client.
I’d like to know too! Memmy is decent but it does crash fairly often and it has done this odd thing where it duplicates my comments a bunch of times
Memmy version in TestFlight is rapidly improving and the dev is really responsive (replying using it as we speak).
Wefwef is a great alternative in the mean time and I’ve used Mlem a bit but prefer the other two.
Thanks for the info. I’m pretty happy with Memmy actually and I saw some say Sync doesn’t support posting, so I’ll stick with Memmy
You can try Mlem it is in the App Store.
I use Voyager (wefwef in an app) in Testflight now. I have used Memmy as well, but like Voyager better. Probably because it has pretty much the look and feel of Apollo I used for Reddit. I am curious how Artemis will be, but that one has no open Beta yet. So plenty of choice for iOs.
Is there a link to the testflight version of Voyager?
In the past, it’s been Android only. I saw someone comment in the Discord about LJD looking into converting the code to something iOS could use. No idea if they were being funny or whatever, but nobody seemed to laugh or refute that. So maybe he’s looking into it? I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up though.
Ah, that might have been my comment. I was suggesting it because the newest android framework (jetpack compose) can be made cross platform easily, but others pointed out sync likely has a lot of older code that would need to be ported over.
It could have been you. I have a terrible memory. I just remember seeing someone comment that. I don’t really follow the Discord too much, but was a little more active over the last couple days in hopes to see a release date for the per-registration.
I thought posting from it wasn’t working yet, so I can’t see that it would be increasing activity.
Pretty sure this will bring a ton on new activity. I, for one, feel right at home now.
I see myself commenting more cheerfully. Shows that the user interface can make loads of difference
I use liftoff now. Is sync an improvement? I find switching between instances to be a bit clunky and having accounts with different instances leads to lots of repeating posts.
Liftoff is open source with no ads.
Sync requires a subscription.
Sync does not require a subscription. There is a free ad supported mode.
I’ve been trying a bunch of different apps. Sync can’t post comments yet so haven’t tried that. But imo between liftoff and connect I like connect more.
Huh? Comment test from Sync.
Obviously it’s working now. There’s no need to reply with the same comment other people have already made.
Huh? Comment test from Sync.
Cool. Now it feels like I’m on Reddit again.
Probably depends on what you’re familiar with. I used Sync for Reddit for years, so I’m right at home with the Sync for Lemmy app now.
First good client, but I think it was pretty good before too.
Sync drastically reduces the barrier to using Lemmy for sure.
I appreciate the vanilla Lemmy experience but Sync has my muscle memory / usage habits after all. And it fixes some of my UX complaints that seem mildly annoying but enough to disengage me from the browsing session.
Just using infinity for Lemmy, idk what’s all about that sync-hype. Infinity runs flawlessly.
At least the experience scrolling through lemmy now is 100x better.
