On the Lemmy specific front, Active daily users seems to still be stabilising following the exodus from elsewhere, Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise though – promising stats all in all.

  • JustAThought@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I just came from Reddit, and I hear a lot about Sync. Anyone willing to let me know what it is and how it is important to Lemmy?

    • arglebargle@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      It’s just another third party app. But it has made the transition from a reddit app to a lemmy app.

      Anything was better than reddit official app which was garbage. I preferred Relay. But for people used to sync, it is familiar and a smooth experience here like they were used to there.

      For lemmy I prefer Jerboa an open source app, but sync is free to try as well (although it had ads).

      • JustAThought@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Thanks, so it seems like those apps that were going to be charged for the API have a place to transition to. Nice!

        • arglebargle@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, it’s actually a really positive outcome because people really liked the app so they are willing to try something new.

        • Clipboards@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Exactly. The other end of it is that a lot of the app-specific advanced functionality made the transition for Day 1 - unless Infinity/else has some tricks i’m unaware of, its currently the most customizable/feature complete app - actual tablet modes, foldable support, biometrics for subaccounts, user painting/tagging for sub accounts, profile backups so you can carry customizations to other android devices - etc.

          Its all auxiliary & definitely not required, but losing these features made Lemmy a no-go on mobile for me. It’s also missing some real basic stuff like mod tools & the ability to make posts at all, but i’ve used the app for a decade & the dev is quickly pushing fixes/new features out the door.