Great news. I’m probably more likely to use Sync, but seeing not one but two well regarded Android Reddit apps migrate to Lemmy is just bloody awesome.
Really missing Relay :(
The developer has just announced that Relay will continue to function and will switch to a subscription model, so there probably won’t be a Relay for Lemmy, unfortunately :(
Thunder feels pretty close. Turn on compact mode + thumbnails on the right and it’s visually almost identical to how I had Relay set up. It even has the short swipe to upvote, long swipe to downvote actions.
All of these are missing good comments functions to me, mainly jumping to top level comments. Also, the ability to swipe away content or get to communities/magazines.
I’m not missing Relay’s trackers in the paid app.
I hope Relay for Lemmy becomes a thing. My fav for years.
Same, love Relay. I ditched the official long ago because of their tracking pixels. My pihole was having a heart attack.
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Three* Don’t forget Slide.
Great news, Slide is my favorite FOSS client from F-Droid
If one thing the Fediverse have thought me so far is that you can use them all at the same time ;)
Is Sync migrating too?
Yes, it’s going to be called Sync for Lemmy and preregistration opened two days ago. It most likely will still be some weeks before it becomes available. Ljdawson stated the target is 6 weeks, so that would be somewhere in the middle of August.
I’m so excited
Yes, Sync for Lemmy has been confirmed to be in development. It has its own community and a channel on the Sync discord.
don’t forget about infinity too
Same. I used Boost for a while until I found Sync. I imagine the same will happen here.
I went from relay to sync to boost, lol. They were all great but the customizable views were more to my taste with boost.
Sync literally went off the play store about an hour ago :(
Edit: Looks like Sync for Lemmy is happening! https://syncapps.io/
This is what finally made me create a Lemmy account.
Awesome! Thanks for the link!
WAIT WHAT THE FUCK WHAT!?
Last time I checked dev wasn’t too convinced of it!!!
Ikr? I was under the impression that Mayayo wasn’t interested but he probably saw the potential even more so when other former reddit 3rd party apps are switching, potentially bringing a lot of users.
It was a sudden switch. My guess is he was on the fence and outpouring of support and donations from his goodbye announcement post pushed him over the fence. I’m thrilled of course, Boost was my favorite Reddit app so I look forward to trying the Lemmy version.
It’s on the Google Play store (Boost for Lemmy) as a “coming soon” app. :)
Excellent!
Fuck yes. Boost was my favorite reddit app.
Mine too! I’ve tried other but always came back to Boost.
Same! I was always Boost on Android, Apollo on the iPad. So excited to hear about Boost for Lemmy!
Boost is so good I explicitly just made this account to use it in case kbin support isn’t planned. Can’t wait to pay for premium again and feel like nothing changed.
Hell yeah! It’s my favorite reddit app by far.
As a boost user this is weird… So many people were asking in the subreddit and he never answered. I’m glad it’s happening
Iirc he said he wasn’t going to work on a lemmy client earlier. Glad he changed his mind.
Yeah he’s been really quiet about it all hasn’t he.
Will definitely be giving it an install when it lands, I’ve used boost for so long.
I wouldn’t be surprised if RIF springs up too. I think devs are starting to see the magic happening here and it’d be easy’ish to port an existing app.
But what would it be called? LIF? RIF for Lemmy?
Also, would it do the whole LIF is Fun thing as opposed to Lemmy is Fun?
As an aside, I wouldn’t say it’s easy to port an existing app. Easier, maybe, but it’s still a lot of work, depending on the API structure, feature differences, etc.
Can’t wait. Boost is my most used app on Android and this will be great.
Reddit user for over 10 years, here for good. I was a long time Sync user and at some point I switched to Boost and I’m not sure why because I also purchased Sync Pro at some point. My two favorite Android apps being developed to work with Lemmy made me create a new account here and I’m looking forward to seeing where this goes.
Register for the download if you will use it, this will show support to Mayayo!
I paid for Boost premium for Reddit a long time ago and will do it again just to support it here.
I am here because of boost
first Sync, now Boost? Let’s funking go!!!
For some reason, Boost for Reddit is still working too 😅
Round 2
I will follow yours and rmayayo’s battle with great interest.