I’m asking new joiners because I know it can be confusing at first to see issues with content discoverability, instances unavailability, people migrating accounts, etc.
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I used sync before I ever had a Reddit account, I was a digg person and after the mass migration I just kind of ‘meh’ and didn’t have a doom scroller
But then, magic, more and more friends discussed Reddit (never giving away their usernames of course) and I asked and someone just said “oh don’t bother with the web, just download sync” and I fell in love, the UI just… It is the definition of a good UI, I just “knew” how to use it
Then when I found out if I made a Reddit account I could sub and find more content I liked, was the first time I ever loaded the Reddit page, only yo make an account and then login to sync.
When the most recent bad Reddit occurred and our dear dev was pondering moving I just waited and now, I have a lemmy account
Might not be for everyone, but it’s the only app for Reddit (I did actually try others during a brief time when I didn’t have the ability to filter videos out) but nothing ever clicked
Side notes, I am more of a lurker which may or may not be relevant
I’ve been loving it, feels good to be using it again. Lemmy isn’t as active as I would love it to be (especially in the topics I’m interested in), but being able to scroll around using Sync has really motivated me to be active here. I hope that happens with more people.
I really wish I could submit posts using the app, and there are a couple of the features that feel like should be basic functions that require a subscription to use. Happy to support the developer, but I don’t like subscription models and not sure if there’s enough value here for me (yet) to justify a one-time $99 payment.
I’d also love it if the “no more posts loaded. Retry?” toast message would time out and fade away. It ends up blocking some of the info for the last post it loaded at the bottom of the screen, and it just doesn’t leave!
Glad to hear you like it! Just a small correction, the one-time payment is 20$ and not 99
Not for pro (which is what I was talking about). A lifetime subscription (a one-time payment) is $99 to get all of those locked features.
I happily paid $20 already for no-ads (even though I use an ad-blocker and never saw ads in the first place)
It is making me miss the communities I used to follow on Reddit that don’t (yet?) Exist here. But it is a comfortable way to get my distraction scrolling in.
Sync for Lemmy is awesome, it is not bugless but it is the one I like more.
My current ROM doesn’t manage the RAM well, so my apps reload faster than I would like if I exit them.
This is not an issue with Sync, I don’t know what dark magic it does to avoid it tbh.
One thing that I’ve really enjoyed about Sync is how good it is at restoring its own state. I don’t think I can ever remember a time where I went back to open Sync, and it wasn’t where I expected it to be.
I swear it also just seems to know when its a good time to actually reset its state, and take me back to the home screen. Logically I know that Sync doesn’t have machine learning capabilities built-in to “guestimate” this and is probably just a state-cache invalidation timer (or something along those lines)… but it certainly does feel like some dark magic!
Yeah that’s what I mean, legit when I’m using Connect for Lemmy I just swipe to another app to respond a message and go back to Connect and all is gone lol, and this shit is worse because I have connect to hide read posts so yeah, it is a funny quest to find the post I was before.
This isn’t specifically of connect though, I’d say it happens to all the Lemmy apps but Sync and maybe Voyager.
