I signed up for lemmy when Reddit started pulling it's shit. But I didn't really do anything here until today when sync informed me that the lemmy app was available.

I bet I'm not the only one.

Sync drastically reduces the barrier to using Lemmy for sure.

I appreciate the vanilla Lemmy experience but Sync has my muscle memory / usage habits after all. And it fixes some of my UX complaints that seem mildly annoying but enough to disengage me from the browsing session.

ljdawson's decision to develop a Lemmy app played a significant part in locking down our decision to bring /r/android to !android@lemdro.id.

Sync makes Lemmy feel like a better version of Reddit, or an old school version of Reddit. It's great for Lemmy and old Reddit users.

s in the past hour

Since Saturday lemmy.ml and lemmy.world were not sending content correctly. The problem seems cleared up now.

I think it has a lot to do with the algorithm. I don't know what he did but I'm not seeing duplicate posts anymore and I love it. Most things are from the past 24 hours instead of week old posts. Going from connect to sync made a massive difference for me.

At least the experience scrolling through lemmy now is 100x better.

Because it has a clean interface and many people were waiting for the app to be released before they jumped on, at least that's the case for me, I used jerboa a bit but is a bit too clunky after being used to sync for so many years

The power of a decent UX

As someone who signed up back when third party apps died for Reddit, this is my first post. I tried a few of the apps for Lemmy, but I couldn't get into it. I tried Sync a couple of hours ago, and it just works. I can see that being the case for others.

I literally was waiting for sync to be released to use Lemmy.

I could easily imagine people from reddit testing out sync. I am frankly shocked by how mature it already feels.

It's already a full fledged Lemmy app.

I call it plausible. The Sync UI is considerably more efficient than the Lemmy web UI. And many of us refugees were 3rd party app users and some of us were Sync users. I have been commenting more since this morning. Surely I am not alone in that?

It seems like it. I see a lot of people posting that they were using X app but sync is better.

I agree sync is an amazing app, both formerly for Reddit, and now for Lemmy, but huge kudos to the developers of existing Lemmy apps for working hard to make the mobile experience as good as possible for us Reddit refugees. I used connect until sync came out, and noticed it was frequently updated. I'd highly recommend everyone support their favourite app developer(s) in whatever way possible. Thanks Kuro!!

Sync is great. Good ui = more users :)

I think it's just because it's so easy to browse again, I'm just seeing a lot more stuff

For whatever is worth, this is my first post ever on the fediverse...

Yes because the shit that shows up inside of sync is the same way that it did on Reddit. For a lot of users, I bet Reddit was sync. The shit that shows up inside the users probably don't care where it comes from.

I'm finding the sync experience far nicer than Jerboa so far, not surprised. Jerboa fails to load comments half the time and I get errors constantly that stop content refreshes.

Lemmy felt buggy AF for me. Web client or Jerboa. Sync for Lemmy is so smooth already, it feels like business as usual to me.

Not just you because sync is arguably the most usable and pretty Lemmy client and it actually got me to finally make an account because it gives me the closest experience to reddit yet

Was thinking the same. Most posts have none to a couple comments. I'm seeing posts with hundreds of comments and up votes.

I feel I can actually learn and use lemmy now.

I wouldn't be here if it weren't for Sync.

Lots of users swear by the app. They would use it if they could. They can now, for Lemmy.

Can confirm, I'm only here because Sync released. I tried using Lemmy sooner but I only browse from mobile and use a foldable, I couldn't live without fold/2 pane portrait support (I had also stopped using Reddit for the same reasons).

I mean...I just created an account today because of this release haha

I was waiting for Sync, and just signed up for my Lemmy account today because of it and I can imagine that there are a decent amount of people doing the same. I have no idea as for the actual metrics, just based on seeing relevant posts.

As for the criticisms of the ad portion of the app, I'm happy to ensure a sustainable way the app/site can continue as long as it's clearly communicated and transparent. And I would imagine the dev would have an option for a one time payment to avoid ads, as per the original Sync.

Happy to be here :)

The fact I can use it on my phone more easily means I certainly will use it more

I know I started being active here because of Sync, so I'd assume plenty others did too. Honestly I wish there was a Sync-like frontend for most apps, it's just the perfect experience in my book.

A lot more active.

I've been noticing this too! Granted I've only been here since the Great Exodus (Redditfugee) but it seems like things have been popping off on all the Instances I'm subscribed to today. I can't help but feel as though we're experiencing a Golden Age in the history of Lemmy

I'm here because of sync. I'll be using boost for lemmy also.

i love it ! it increases the functionality of lemmy that's why users are more engaging

Glad people are loving Sync. A bit surprised that people are saying that there is finally a good mobile UX for Lemmy though.

I was an Apollo user on Reddit and have been using Voyager for Lemmy. The experience on my phone ( other than content ) has been near indistinguishable. If I had both apps, I would barely be aware of which one I was in.

Anyway, awesome that people are loving Sync.

Sync in my opinion provides the most seamless, Reddit-like experience, so naturally, more people will gravitate towards that