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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.

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[โ€“] RjBass3@lemmy.world 227 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I signed up for lemmy when Reddit started pulling it's shit. But I didn't really do anything here until today when sync informed me that the lemmy app was available.

I bet I'm not the only one.

[โ€“] sucricdrawkcab@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Nope. I've messed around with other apps but nothing comes close to Sync.

[โ€“] TempleSquare@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Connect for Lemmy has been really good so far, too.

[โ€“] sucricdrawkcab@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I did try Connect for a bit, but it just wasn't Sync. That's not a diss on Connect because it is a good app. I'm honestly just happy people have 3rd party options to find the one that works for them.

[โ€“] Cryst@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I tried sync today but so far I prefer connect. May try it again later.

[โ€“] mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It took me a while to stumble across Summit. I'm really enjoying it! I've tried everything so far and, while each has something going for it, Summit has the most of what I think I want so far. Tbh it just reminds me of Boost, which I'm really looking forward to. But yeah, Summit is my current favorite.

I never once tried Sync before but now that it's here I'll give it a go

[โ€“] Cheems@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I really like liftoff

[โ€“] oselecto@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

People really seem to be sleeping on Thunder. For me it's by far the slickest of all the Lemmy apps I've tried.

[โ€“] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm using Jerboa, as I don't want to use a closed source app with In App purchases and Google tracking. It's nice there are so many options!

[โ€“] UmbrellAssassin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Jerboa am the way. I used Sync before, but Jerboa had the perfect amount of customization with ease of use. I say that, but I feel hypocritical cause I'm currently testing Sync.

[โ€“] realherald@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I switched from Jerboa to Sync, as I felt Jerboa was not registering my upvotes? In addition I somehow couldn't subscribe to communities. (Maybe all user error.)

[โ€“] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been using Jerboa and I like it other than when typing comments or posts. If you have to backspace it just completely shits it's pants and ends up deleting things you don't want, removing spaces between words, refusing to append text without removing words. I just want a normal typing experience.

The mobile browser version if lemmy is pretty good. But here I am now with Sync. I never used it for reddit (I was an Infinity fan), but it does seem pretty nice

[โ€“] PoppinKREAM@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My issue with Jerboa has been that it doesn't register when I have copied things so it's difficult to paste links/articles/quotes.

I might try out Sync so that I can contribute more informative responses, but I like the idea of Jerboa being open source as that's what drew me to the app.

[โ€“] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 1 year ago

Jerboa has some good ideas and features, but it has sadly been consistently the most buggy out of all the clients I've tried, across updates.

I was using Connect until yesterday, which I found to be the best option thus far, but I don't think it's open source. Liftoff is also good though, but in terms of looks something is off with it for me. Maybe it's a little to cluttered.

Sync is fantastic in terms of features, look and feel and customization. It's definitely the best app I've used so far. The issues of free-with-ads and the steep pricing for ad removal/Ultra are definitely there, but I can't deny that it's the best feeling app for Lemmy right now.

[โ€“] UmbrellAssassin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really? What kind of OS are you using? I haven't had that issue on android.

[โ€“] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Android. And I haven't had issues like that with typing in anything ever. I'll be backspacing a couple of chars and all of a sudden the words have been concatenated and trying to get a space back was so hard. I really can't explain how bad it was, but it was definitely just Jerboa and not my keyboard or phone as its perfect for everything else.

I used Jerboa as my stop gap until Sync came out.

It's fine, but I have at least 8-9 years of muscle memory and use with Sync. Jerboa was never going to compete with that.

[โ€“] Paol@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I'm using the open-source Infinity for Lemmy app. I used to use Infinity for Reddit, so I find IfL amazing to use.

[โ€“] Zalack@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Man I really wanted to like Jerboa but it just has such terrible UX. I ended up signing up for Kbin.social as I thought it had the best UI and now I'm back to Lemmy through Sync.

[โ€“] lorkano@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Same here. Lemmy websites are not that good. Sync app is great

[โ€“] CertifiedBlackGuy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are dozens of us. Dozens, I say! DOZENS!

[โ€“] hogart@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Maybe even more!

I hadn't created an account til today. I was going to just use sync for reddit with the revanced patch at first but I decided to just ghost reddit until this came out, and now I'm getting my sync fix again lol so far so good, besides there being a bit less content on lemmy vs reddit the experience so far it has been great. Plus, it feels like fewer bots, at least for now, so that's also a major plus.

[โ€“] mishe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Yep, same here. Tried a bunch of different apps but never became comfortable with any of them, so I completely stopped using Lemmy, but Sync gave me a reason to come back here.

[โ€“] Sverdar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This is exactly my case. Received the notification for the new Sync and I've been exploring for like 2 hours. Amazing

[โ€“] vocornflakes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Me too, I started my download almost immediately after being notified.

[โ€“] toff@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Yep, me too. First posting here ๐Ÿ˜Š

[โ€“] BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm using sync until infinity beta goes public, at least.

edit: and I'm not longer using Sync! ๐Ÿ˜Š

[โ€“] HarrBear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Nope, that's why I'm here!

[โ€“] Hyperion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Same. There were also lots of server errors in the week after sync stopped working for Reddit so I took some time off.

The sync app is amazing though.