this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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Sync for Lemmy

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Testing a link

Brilliant - I love that we can see where a text link actually points. It's one of the things I've liked least about Lemmy apps so far, sometimes you're potentially clicking blind.

Oh, and we still have the choice between inline and expanded, fantastic! Settings shortcut: Link handling > Expanded comment links

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This must be the most upvoted post on Lemmy

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

As a first release this is so much more fully featured than anything I expected!! So impressive thanks @[email protected].

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

A world of difference. What a good day today!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've never spent $100 on a program before, but I've got a lifetime ultra membership now. Excited to see this app for lemmy!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is fantastic, but I'm not going to sign up for a subscription. I would love to support development and get an ad free version like Pro let me. Will this be coming in the future?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some things never change ๐Ÿ˜‚ (I know this is not sync's problem).

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This is my first action on the app.

I'm already impressed after having logged in and scrolled 2x screens doomscoll style, how the repeating threads aren't coming up.

I'm sold.

Going to wait just a bit longer before signing up for premium, but that will probably happen before next week.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Feels like home.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

$115 for the Lifetime subscription? You must be fucking joking, I paid $35 last year for the Lifetime subscription to Reddit. The guy has changed probably ~10% of the code base to use a different site's API, this is just greed. Tis off to Mobilsm I go for the cracked version so, cheers

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If you pay for Sync, IMO you should give to the instance who hosts your lemmy account as well as to the Lemmy dev(s) (yes Dessalines is a tankie, but you should separate the artist from the person)

I would love to pay for Sync, alas I don't have Google services on my phone. I know this day will never come, but a non Google pro version would be great (some pro versions I bought without Google play: Folder sync pro, Tasker, Fairemail, KWGT, Poweramp, xprivacy...)

The app is really great

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you ๐Ÿ˜Š now lemmy will be much more pleasure to use!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh man the reddit mobile app is awful. Hopefully lemmy takes off because this app is just so good.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The pricing is a bit much, especially compared to other services like Tutanota that actually runs servers and provides a service in addition to developing the applications. $20-$30 for the onetime purchase option would be more sane.

I know I bought Sync Pro for Reddit, but I know that was nowhere close to these prices.

EDIT: Found the Remove Ads option, and that is more reasonable priced.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Soooooooo freaking happy to finally have the tablet setup that I just couldn't seem to find in any of the other Lemmy apps (so far)!!! I can now have three columns and see so many posts with their smaller but still good sized previews! Was curious how much would be different in moving to Lemmy, and so far everything seems to be much closer to one-to-one than I even thought. Very good work! And back on the Ultra sub as well!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can feel at home again with sync.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Absolutely unreal how a top tier app can be such a game changer. Fediverse will be bigger than Reddit ever was.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is sooooo nice! Really appreciate all the hard work.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hi, I have one question - on removing ads, are the ads trackers removed? Or will the app just not show us ads but still allow the trackers in, letting the ad tracker owners keep tabs on our browsing and serve us ads in places other than Sync for Lemmy?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love it. Can't wait to remove ads (because it seems IAP is not here yet?)

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm not very interested in a subscription service but I'd happily pay a larger fee upfront to remove ads forever with no extra features.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I love LJ's work and will happily remove ads from Sync when possible (even though my adblocker hides them anyway). I'm not very fond of buying Ultra, as I hate paying for something I won't use. Ironically I would rather make a recurring donation via Liberapay and get nothing out of it than pay for some functionality and feel uneasy about never using it, lol. I already support my home instance on Liberapay

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

it's looking delightful, albeit still in the early stages. i'll happily pick up sync pro once that's available, as i did for the old reddit version

one admittedly minor thing: my home instance disables downvotes. is there a way sync can detect that, and hide the downvote buttons like the web ui does? alternatively an option in the settings to manually tell sync that downvotes aren't supported would work fine too

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Just bought the remove ads version. It is very thrilling to be back to Sync! I'm so used to this look and interface after eleven years with Reddit Sync. Lemmy becomes immediately more familiar and friendly to my eyes. I enjoy Jerboa just fine but I guess I am just an old guy set in my ways and this is how my favorite mobile scrolling app should look and behave. Seems great for a beta and I look forward to further developments!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not FOSS? Not interested.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you thank you thank you

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Haven't used sync before, but I'm really digging the amount of flexibility in customizing how it looks. Thank you for your hard work in developing this so quickly!

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