Edit:
Official Lemmy Community:
https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy
This should open the community in your instance
Looks like the Boost for Reddit Dev just reserved a Lemmy Community…No official announcement yet.
Proof: https://old.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/14ehiqs/_/jouvuok/
Direct Link to the Community: https://lemmy.world/c/boostforlemmy
Would be great to have other mobile apps fill the gap, so that the devs can focus more heavily on the main site instead of Jerboa.
FWIW, I highly doubt the devs are focused on anything but the Lemmy API right now. In fact, I also doubt they’ve slept in a month.
For sure, even so, it’ll be good to have a really solid mobile app option that doesn’t take any of their focus in the future.
it’s disappointing seeing so many people here excited about something that is not (and apparently not planning to be) free open source software :(
I def prefer people contribute to the existing open source apps (or make new ones), but overall the more the merrier. I’m happy when anyone builds something for the lemmy ecosystem.
I think it’s more of people wanting to stick with the developers and apps that they have used on reddit. Some of which have been using and supporting for almost a decade. It also means more of an endorsement for Lemmy, as some reddit sync users wouldn’t consider Lemmy otherwise. Lastly, a significant number of power users (those that actually post, comment, and otherwise contribute) use third party apps over the official app, meaning that having support for these apps on Lemmy will hopefully bring over quality users and not just a larger quantity users.
That’s my take on it, and I am someone very pro open source.
The more, the merrier!
Yea, I really loved RiF, so I hope we get Lemmy is Fun. Was a paid user and would support again.
This is absolutely fantastic news! Sync was pretty much my only way of browsing reddit for a long time. This should make the transition much easier.
BTW: Hi everyone, that’s my first comment on Lemmy!
This is exciting! Glad to see Lemmy will be getting so much more attention!
Doesn’t look like Boost is happening as of now, as per the developer.
sadly, you are right. But it doesnt close the door completely.
context: https://old.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/14ehiqs/_/jow1le5/?context=10000
That’s too bad, I moved to boost from sync awhile ago because I didn’t like the way the dev of sync was constantly changing the ui and then announced he was going to put some future features behind another (subscription) pay wall, despite being told when you buy the app thst you’d have access to all development features.
Baconreader as of now isn’t moving to Lemmy either ☹️ big sad here, probably my favorite interface.
This should open the community in your instance
How do you do that?
OH MY GOD ITS MY DREAM COME TRUE
Wow this is huge. Should bring a ton of new users. Spez really shittin his pants now
Boost dev just reserved a lemmy community also. I edited my post with the links.
Brilliant. I love the Boost client and having it would significantly increase my Lemmy usage.
Yeeeessssss! <3
This is really cool for Android users. If Apollo came to lemmy, that would be the biggest kick in the teeth for Reddit.
I’ve been using Sync since 2016. This is incredibly good news.
Awesome. I uninstalled Sync after they stated it would be going down on July 1st because of the updates. It was the a great app. Looking forward to this.
Any app right now would be great. The web needs some UI tweaks. I hope Apollo comes to light.
By the way, is there a working Lemmy client in the iOS app store that is out of testflight?
Not that I am aware of unfortunately.
