First of all, thank you @[email protected] for pursuing Sync for Lemmy. It’s honestly given me so much hope for Fediverse adoption to actually happen. I do have one thought to share with you to help with success:

Come July 1st pretty much all Sync users are going to open the app due to muscle memory or due to a lack of awareness of what’s happening.

If they see “this app doesn’t work any more” or similar, they are simply going to delete the app and will likely go to the official Reddit app. The opportunity to engage them will be gone.

However, you can use it as a huge marketing opportunity if on that day it says something to the effect of:

  • Sync for Reddit doesn’t work any more due to the API changes…
  • However Sync for Lemmy is in development
  • Here’s how you try Lemmy (and/or kbin) in the mean time…
  • Keep Sync for Reddit on your phone to receive a notification when Sync for Lemmy is launched

Even if they don’t try Lemmy right away, if they get a notification from the old app saying the new one is ready they will possibly try it at that time (but you need to convince them to keep the old app on their phone)

But the clock is ticking - after July 1st the chance of engaging someone in this way is very low as they’ll likely uninstall the old app. IMO getting this teed up is of a higher priority than developing the minimal-viable-product for the new app.

You likely already have this in the works, but wanted to throw it out there incase you hadn’t planned on it already. Thanks again for doing this - I am so hopeful and excited for a viable alternative to Reddit and Sync could be such a huge piece in making it possible!

Originally posted to /r/syncforlemmy but figured I should put my money where my mouth is and post here as well. After all, this is the future!

  • imaqtpieA
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Yeah the Piracy community seems like it could become an anchor on this platform, which I would love.

    Pirates are generally aligned against capitalism and corporatism, but they are not all in the same boat, politically speaking.

    Such a diverse yet similar group could prove very helpful in charting a middle course amongst some of the more opinionated instances.

    Arggh!

    • sneakyninjapants
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yeah the Piracy community seems like it could become an anchor on this platform, which I would love.

      Oh yeah, I think this will be a great platform for the Piracy minded amongst us. Not beholden to a central authority, censorship resistant, no legal liability encompassing the network of discrete nodes. Lots of upsides.

      Such a diverse yet similar group could prove very helpful in charting a middle course

      I hope this will be the case as well. Those that want to Pirate aren’t going to be sticking around long on instances whose owners are defederating the pirate horde I think.

      • imaqtpieA
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Word. Glad you’re part of my instance and looking forward to watching how this develops together.

        But you didn’t laugh at my pirate puns 😭

        an anchor

        in the same boat

        charting a course

        Arggh!

        • sneakyninjapants
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          Glad you’re part of my instance

          Same same

          Lol somehow all of those puns completely slipped past me, idk how I even missed that

          Got a hearty chuckle out of me on the second read through matey. Hmm maybe more of a cackle tbh

          • imaqtpieA
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 year ago

            Yeah I was reaching for that joke a bit 😅