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 :(
Relay was the best. There were so many great simple features that a surprising number of Lemmy apps are missing
Relay is my top preference.
Me too.
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.
I’m not missing Relay’s trackers in the paid app.
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
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.
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.
This is what finally made me create a Lemmy account.
Same! Let’s goooooo!
Seriously, same here. Can’t wait for this to release.
Round 2
Fuck yes. Boost was my favorite reddit app.
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.
Mine too! I’ve tried other but always came back to Boost.
I will launch that 🚀 as soon as the app is available. Pre-registration is done, let’s goooooooo.
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.
Between Boost and Sync, Lemmy is emerging as a promising option because there’s going to be multiple strong 3rd party apps to engage with.
Literally my two favorite (former) Reddit clients by a wide margin. This makes me happy.
LONG LIVE THE KING
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
This is the most exiting fedinews I’ve ever read.
Nice, Boost was my reddit app of choice
Awesome, used to use the reddit version and really liked it, switched from the official app and never looked back. Excited to try it out when it releases (also this is my first comment on lemmy, been lurking for a week or so but I think it’s time I start interacting)
first Sync, now Boost? Let’s funking go!!!
This is Lemmy now, you can swear if its not targeted
Not targeted? Can’t I randomly just tell you to go F yourself and it’d be fine?
Thank you Ruben!
It seems like the future for Lemmy is pretty bright with all these amazing apps switching over.
It’s a shame that Christian decided to not develop Apollo for Lemmy for the time being. I bet that would also convince a fair share of users to abandon ship.
I never used Boost for Reddit, but with this many people singing it’s praises… ***BOOST FOR LEMMY, LET’S GOOO! *** Sorry, Connect. You’re still cool tho
I literally just discovered Connect after trying in vain to get Jerboa to work ahah. I’m so used to Boost, I can’t wait for it to be inolimented here.