• zaktmt@kbin.social
    12·
    1 year ago

    Sync and Boost were my favorite Android Reddit clients. I always preferred Apollo and being back on iOS, but they are great in their own right. But I paid for premium for both Sync and Boost for a reason. They were so feature complete and were the closest thing I could get to Apollo on Android.

    • BorkBork@kbin.social
      7·
      1 year ago

      +1 to this, would rather the app supports logging into a fediverse server instead of just lemmy

      • Kichae@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year ago

        Lemmy, kbin, Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Friendica… They all use different APIs, and those APIs need to be supported separately by developers if they want their app to be compatible with all of them.

        ernest is talking about changing the kbin API to be more in line with lemmy’s, which would allow apps made for lemmy to also work with kbin, but they wouldn’t, for instance, work with (or possibly even know about) kbin’s microblogging feature.

        • elrac@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’ll be honest, I think kbin’s microblog feature needs work. It either needs to be integrated into the lemmy style posts somehow or needs something else fine with it. It’s pretty confusing how it currently stands.

          • Kichae@kbin.social
            3·
            1 year ago

            It needs to be in the sidebar of magazines. There’s no way to directly integrate it other wise, as they’re totally different formats.

            But there’s a lot of potential in having the fedi microblogging stream at your fingertips. A not insignificant amount of Reddit is screenshots of Twitter posts. Being able to directly quote Mastodon posts to promote them to a thread would be pretty powerful.

            But, you know, it’s a very young projects. The developer hasn’t had the time to integrate things

    • moonie@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      And if I need a lemmy account, how do you manage accounts across the fediverse, you make accounts on each site and they are unrelated?

    • Aer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      They really scared about Lemmy? Being so blatant about this shit… I have learned the following:

      • They do not like subreddits going NSFW it makes them no money. I for one welcome all furries and rule 34 artwork to Reddit.

      • They do not like people promoting Lemmy, any kind of competition gets them trying every tactic they can muster, playing all their cards now.

      • They do not like people deleting or removing data from Reddit. You know what would suck? A GDPR deletion request… That would be a real damn shame. No data to sell then lol

      • Kadath (she/her)@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        They do not like people deleting or removing data from Reddit. You know what would suck? A GDPR deletion request… That would be a real damn shame.

        Don’t tempt me, lol.

          • DrYes@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            Read the update at the bottom. Reddit doesn’t seem to want to comply with the requests. I guess you could use a deletion script.

            • Aer@lemmy.worldEnglish
              0·
              1 year ago

              Then they are in breach of GDPR regulations. If they don’t comply I could see some serious fines heading their way

              • neanderthal@lemmy.worldEnglish
                0·
                1 year ago

                Wouldn’t they have to have some sort of presence in the EU? If all of their operations are US based (I don’t know if they are or not), can the EU really do anything about it?

                • Aer@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  0·
                  1 year ago

                  They serve people in the EU so they absolutely have to comply. If you have EU citizens on your website then EU GDPR regulations apply to you.

                  I have done enough GDPR compliance training to make me want to gouge my own brain out but I guess it came in handy lol

  • YellowGas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    This is very unexpected but I’m so ready to show support! I’ll be financially donating and supporting! ljdawson, it at your own pace and I’ll be happy with anything you can bring to the community! I was so pleased with Sync for Reddit every step of the way.

      • MattMist@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s basically a really well polished app to browse the website on Android. It has a lot of features and also very good customization options since it kept adding features over the years.

        Having a Lemmy client that good will make it much easier to use on a phone.

  • demesisx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for making the fediverse such an amazing community, everyone. We may have a long way to go before social media without billionaire control is ubiquitous, but I’m confident that this is the right way and it’s just a matter of time before most people realize that.

  • Imhotep@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Would it be closed source?

    Good app, but with many trackers, and it wouldn’t work without Google services one day (anti piracy measure?).

    • Deemo@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’d presume so based on reddit sync (monitization primarly from ads and iap). Apollo’s dev at one point made another app (primarly for killing amp links) that was paid and open sourced it, however he had issues with low effort copycats.

      https://github.com/christianselig/Amplosion

      The bright side of a closedsource app is in certain cases it can encourage faster development since the dev can work on it part/fulltime (idk how syncs revenue worked).

      To be clear the post above is my personal view (I could be completly wrong).

  • dreamfall@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Hell yes! Sync was my reddit app of choice, and I will for sure migrate to this full time once it is out!

  • sunaurus@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Awesome news! I used to use Sync daily back when I was on Android, very happy to hear that the users will have some place to go.

  • Kevin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    That would be amazing. I loved Sync for reddit and was heartbroken to have to abandon it.

  • SirLem@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Wow. Didn’t expect this at all. It’s definitely one of my fav Android apps, never mind Reddit Apps. The quality of the Sync app is next level and the level of options it had to tweak the layout and style to suit what you wanted was amazing. Really excited for this!