• @[email protected]
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    Can’t wait and will be buying premium if there is one asap. His last app served me well for years

      • @[email protected]
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        8611 months ago

        Typical American

        Absolutely 0 indication of their nationality, but sure “America bad”

      • @penguin
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        Your fundamental premise is wrong. We do have knowledge about it because it’s supposed to be the same app it was before. But lemmy instead of reddit.

        And we’re not talking a AAA game here where it’ll cost 60 dollars and there’s no reason to prepurchase. Apps are usually cheaper than a coffee.

      • @[email protected]
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        WeLl WhErEs YoUr StAtE fUnDeD lEmMy ApP

        absolutely zero knowledge

        Used sync for years

        Doubt.jpg

      • @AmbientChaos
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        As something of a prudent buyer and someone who never preorders anything, I too will be buying premium day one regardless of the state of the app. I can pretty easily defend this decision too; we’ve had a very long time to get to know the developer. He has proven time and time again that he creates a very high quality and high performance application while respecting and treating his users well. I got way more than my money’s worth out of Sync for Reddit and will gladly throw some more money at such a great developer. Not to mention we’re not talking massive amounts of money here… haha

      • @[email protected]
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        611 months ago

        Oh the horror, bad American for wanting to support a developer as they launch a new product that is built on the premise of one they used and loved for years.

        Instead of supporting a Dev who’s proved themselves, we should harbor deep skepticism and try to skate by on a free product for as long as possible because that $5 is really, really, super, duper gonna break the bank if the app isn’t absolutely everything I want it to be.

      • prole
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        211 months ago

        You’re a weird dude.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        Keeping the rule going strong. The more emojis used, the dumber the user. 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣❤️🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

    • @jayandp
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      2311 months ago

      What kind of device do you have?

        • @can
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          1911 months ago

          I’m well aware :/

          My daily driver broke :(

            • @can
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              1011 months ago

              Yeah, pretty ironic considering a lot of things in my life tbh.

          • @jayandp
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            111 months ago

            Oof, that sucks. That happened to me on New Years. I threw money at the fastest shipping so I could have a replacement as soon as possible. Going without a decent phone is near impossible where I live these days.

      • @can
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        511 months ago

        A shitty one :(

    • 6daemonbag
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      111 months ago

      I wish this link and others like it worked on Jerboa. It always cycles back to my home feed and I just end up momentarily wondering what could have been before moving on.

  • CALIGVLA
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    Sync for Lemmy available

    FUCK YEAH LET’S G–

    Pre-register

    … Oh.

  • @[email protected]
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    6611 months ago

    Are you kidding me? Just checked this community for the first time in a month and this post is 15 minutes old? That’s freaky timing

  • @[email protected]
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    6011 months ago

    Aw man, a pre-register? I mean obviously I pre-registered, but you got me super excited for a second lol

  • @[email protected]
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    5811 months ago

    It appears that it is getting close to a full release for Sync for Lemmy. My only concert is that it might go to a subscription only method of payment. I’d rather pay a lot for a one time unlock or even like a 2 year unlock instead of a monthly subscription.

    Im getting subscription burnout and I’m sick of having to juggle literally a hundred subscriptions every month. If it does go subscription based, sadly I’ll probably pass on it. Which would be a sad close to a long history of using sync.

    • @[email protected]
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      3111 months ago

      Not related to this app, but I agree very much about subscriptions. I cancelled most of mine.

      • @[email protected]
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        1211 months ago

        I think I’ll be canceling my Prime this year. The single biggest waste of a subscription.

        • @[email protected]
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          611 months ago

          I have Prime but yeah, thinking about getting rid of that too. I got free transport from Amazon when ordering stuff though so that’s very nice.

          • @[email protected]
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            1111 months ago

            For me, the goods are worse than ever, and I just don’t care to support amazon’s practices nor China.

            Also free shipping is still available for most items if you can wait 3 days. You know they’re going to raise the price again come the beginning of the year.

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      There will be a single time payment for ad-free as was the case with Sync for Reddit. Any subscription based model is for the features which are going to require running (and paying) for a server. Even for Ultra (the paid subscription model) we would most likely have a lifetime option.

      • @Wilshire
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        111 months ago

        Amazing, I can’t wait!

    • @[email protected]
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      1211 months ago

      Sync dev can have all my Google opinion rewards money. Pretty much what I use them for.

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      As there is only a handful of lemmy users compared to reddit, I think simply relying on one time purchase is not sustainable for the dev. After the bot accounts purge, there seems to be 1 million lemmy users right now, and only a fraction that is an active users, say, 20% of it (very generous), which translate to 200,000 users. If even 1% of those users bought Sync for Lemmy for $10 (no idea what the actual price will be), it would means 2000 people buy the app. With app store’s 30% cut, that means the dev only got $14,000, which is peanuts assuming he’ll need to support the app as long as the reddit version (10 years or more?).

  • @[email protected]
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    5711 months ago

    I’m in the beta. It’s great. It really feels like nothing happened.

    Layout is the same, etc. Only thing not implemented yet is the inbox.

    You guys are in for a treat

  • @[email protected]
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    3511 months ago

    Anyone else noticed that Connect for Lemmy has just changed its design? Feels like it’s taken a lot of “inspiration” from Sync…

    • @[email protected]
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      I remember the dev of connect was in this community praising sync a little while back so I’m not surprised.

      • Kuro
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        5511 months ago

        Connect dev here - I am! Big fan of Sync (which probably comes through in Connect’s design language). RIF and Infinity is also a source of inspiration.

        • 𝚝𝚛𝚔
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          411 months ago

          I like Connect, thanks for your efforts!

          Using it right now in fact. If I reply multiple times, I’d like to report a bug where sometimes it posts comments multiple times.

          • imnotneo
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            211 months ago

            I’ve noticed this as well but on other clients

    • @oldlamps
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      111 months ago

      deleted by creator

  • @[email protected]
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    3211 months ago

    I’m looking forward to replacing the Sync icon I still have sitting on my homescreen that just throws a 401. Can’t bring myself to kill it.

  • @[email protected]
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    3111 months ago

    I paid for regular Sync, I paid for Dev Sync when the new UI was only in that channel, and I will gladly pay for Lemmy Sync the second I can!

    • @penguin
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      I also ended up buying each version of sync and have registered for this one. It’ll be an instant buy.

  • @[email protected]
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    3011 months ago

    I’m excited and pre-registered. I didn’t pay for sync for reddit, but now that I am more educated about the life of developers and third party apps, I will def pay for sync for lemmy. I have heard good things about some of the existing apps, but I have just been using the web browser while I wait for the sync app to be ready, and I am so ready to download and use it. <3

    • @[email protected]
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      811 months ago

      I donated to Boost for Reddit. I will probably donate to Boost for Lemmy as well. With the nature of Lemmy though, we can’t forget to donate to our favorite instances too!

      • @[email protected]
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        I still don’t fully understand the fediverse, but I’m starting to. I know that the .world or the .ml or the .ee or whatever are the “instances” and that I can see all the stuff on all of them even tho I use .world. I am sure I will understand it better once I can start using sync again (or at least start understanding it in the capacity in which I’ll be using it). How do I support an instance? I’m also a broke bitch and don’t have a ton of disposable income, but reddit was and lemmy now is a service I appreciate and rely on, so I want to support the people providing said service, although I’m so grateful that I’ve been able to use sync for free for essentially the last decade.

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          Yeah, anything after the @ is the instance. Each instance hosts some of the communities (subreddits) and some of the users. Donate to the instance you’re signed up to as a first priority and then maybe any other that hosts a load of communities you care about or do a particularly good job at something.

          But if you’re broke and can’t afford it, don’t worry! On the other hand those of us who DO have a little bit of disposable income should donate a little here and there to help bring about the internet we want to see.

        • Venomnik0
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          There’s a donate button on the top of the page (it looks like a heart) you can donate there. Second, a little off topic trick but did you know Mastodon users can communicate with us as well!! its pretty cool

          • @[email protected]
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            211 months ago

            I was never a Twitter user so I didn’t feel the need to become a mastodon user, but I do think that’s very cool, so now I can see stuff on mastodon without having to be a mastadonian? (Ps thanks for chatting)

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              Only from Mastodonians that put in the effort to post to a Lemmy community or respond to a Lemmy post. Still neat to see it working though. If you’re really interested you could try Kbin. It interacts with all Lemmy and Mastodon content.

  • @[email protected]
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    2811 months ago

    Can’t wait to delete all the other lemmy apps I’ve been trying. Most do most things well, but none do everything well like Sync.

    • Banned
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      Tbd, not saying it wont be good. But will temper my expectations until I see the app and how it feels.

      • @[email protected]
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        1111 months ago

        It’s the same UI experience as the reddit version so I don’t see any reason to not be excited about it.

        • Calavera
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          111 months ago

          The problem is that there are some issues which will not be solved by the app like links to posts on another instances

          • Coelacanth
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            411 months ago

            In a browser this can be solved with a userscript. Could the same be done within an app?

            • Calavera
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              I’m saying that it is not going to be the lemmy UX savior

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                Idk, that’s one pretty minor inconvenience imo. I wouldn’t be surprised if the links can be corrected by the app anyways since there are some browser extensions/scripts that can do it on desktop. It’s not an unsolvable problem.