On the Lemmy specific front, Active daily users seems to still be stabilising following the exodus from elsewhere, Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise though – promising stats all in all.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just came from Reddit, and I hear a lot about Sync. Anyone willing to let me know what it is and how it is important to Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just another third party app. But it has made the transition from a reddit app to a lemmy app.

Anything was better than reddit official app which was garbage. I preferred Relay. But for people used to sync, it is familiar and a smooth experience here like they were used to there.

For lemmy I prefer Jerboa an open source app, but sync is free to try as well (although it had ads).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks, so it seems like those apps that were going to be charged for the API have a place to transition to. Nice!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's actually a really positive outcome because people really liked the app so they are willing to try something new.

[–] Clipboards 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly. The other end of it is that a lot of the app-specific advanced functionality made the transition for Day 1 - unless Infinity/else has some tricks i'm unaware of, its currently the most customizable/feature complete app - actual tablet modes, foldable support, biometrics for subaccounts, user painting/tagging for sub accounts, profile backups so you can carry customizations to other android devices - etc.

Its all auxiliary & definitely not required, but losing these features made Lemmy a no-go on mobile for me. It's also missing some real basic stuff like mod tools & the ability to make posts at all, but i've used the app for a decade & the dev is quickly pushing fixes/new features out the door.