Sync for Lemmy

Started using Lemmy a lot more with sync than without. No longer using Lemmy web (I've never used Reddit web anyway). Still running into occasional bugs, such as thread comments rendering out of order. But definitely expected as this is still in beta.

Did have to change servers as lemmy.world was getting bogged down.

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.

Tbh I'm not super down with lemmy yet. It feel like too much like an r/all experience with very little users. Most of my feed at reddit was very niche communities that either connected me to people like myself or gave me a window in the lives of people totally unlike myself. Here I see some news, redditbashing or meta comments about lemmy and a lot of technology/privacy content that I'm just not interested in. Even if I find niche communities, they have no posts. Maybe this will get better over time, but I'm not sure if I'll stick around for that long.

It's been pretty good. I have noticed the default sort order ('Active') results in the feed getting stale pretty quickly. Changing the default to 'New' has been a better experience so far, at least at the current level of activity.

I have had a few issues subscribing to communities on remote instances (i.e. not showing up in search, or showing up but with an empty feed when content definitely exists when I check the web UI) - this does not appear to be an SFW/NSFW issue, and some communities from the same remote instances appear correctly.

Hard to tell if this is an instance/protocol issue, or an app issue.

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I'm just waiting for post functionality, but this is the Sync that I know and love.

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

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.

It's ok, except for when it's down. I assume it's something to do with .world

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!

Sync still doesn't work for me. It crashes as soon as it opens. I'm enjoying Liftoff right now. I think I'll stick with it even if Sync starts working.

I was using sync for reddit before. It's very similar but way less fresh content. It will get better though. I'm still using default subs.

You mean users who joined Lemmy for the first time with Sync?

I have used it for a short while, but one thing I can not appreciate is having all the display settings (cudo's for that) but all Inwant is everything look the same over all accounts.

And a "sync subscriptions and block lists" option would rock!

Honestly pretty great, still in the process of blocking some of the instances I'm not interested in but I like it a lot for what I do (browse the main page by top/active to get a bit off everything)