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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 :(
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.
Relay was the best. There were so many great simple features that a surprising number of Lemmy apps are missing
Me too.
Relay is my top preference.
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.
Thunder opens articles in Samsung Internet Browser of all things. I can’t figure out how to change it to Firefox or Chrome. Otherwise I like it OK, although I wish I could turn off the animations
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If one thing the Fediverse have thought me so far is that you can use them all at the same time ;)
Three* Don’t forget Slide.
Great news, Slide is my favorite FOSS client from F-Droid
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
don’t forget about infinity too
Sync literally went off the play store about an hour ago :(
Edit: Looks like Sync for Lemmy is happening! https://syncapps.io/
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.
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.
Register for the download if you will use it, this will show support to Mayayo!
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.
Hell yeah! It’s my favorite reddit app by far.
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.
I think most, if not all the major 3rd party app devs are working on something for Lemmy now. Reddit has not only devalued themselves, but made the Fediverse 100% more accessable. I’m a Boost user so this is awesome news. There are so many Lemmy apps in the pipeline. I’ve tried Connect Jeroba and Thunder. At this point they’re all newish, and pretty much the same. Hopefully all this app competition will lead to new innovation. Lemmy users are the winners here. We’re witnessing the dawn of the Lemmy app wars.
Yea I love the ui of Boost, I just can’t get used to these other clients. It’s going to be way more easier to navigate lemmy.
I paid for Boost premium for Reddit a long time ago and will do it again just to support it here.
For some reason, Boost for Reddit is still working too 😅
Can’t wait. Boost is my most used app on Android and this will be great.
Whilst waiting for the boost app to be available, I tried wefwef and its pretty fucking sweet.
Link for android home install is:
That is the smoothest webapp experience i ever had
It is really neat. And a bit weird to have some Apple looking icons on my android! LOL+
Eh, looks fine, but laggy and posts not going up.
Install it on Firefox
? It’s Android.
Yes, use Firefox on Android to install the PWA. Brave also seems to work well from what I’ve seen.
I just tried wefwef, thanks for the recommendation. It’s better than Jerboa so far.
Good to hear, enjoy :)
I am here because of boost
