Thankyou, you have done a great job with Jerboa so far! Looks very similar to Boost.
Perhaps the Boost dev would be willing to share source code with you especially if they are discontinued.
In any case it's nice you have done this for the community.
Thanks for your answer it clears it up.
So theoretically it seems like someone could create an app which "marries" mastodon content with Lemmy.
It will grow massively once the app stores get reviews and apps
Can someone please explain what the difference is between kbin and Lemmy and why these apps can interoperate? They look similar to me.
This will really legitimize and mainstream the platform!
I am a Boost for Reddit User, but have seen Sync and it is well designed. Jerboa is cool but it is not there yet. The experience the dev from Sync brings to Lemmy will be amazing.
Not asking for features but would be good if kbin is included with it so that user fragmentation is limited. I still don't really understand the difference with Lemmy but it's cool.
And Boost app users. Was the best interface I used.
Yep. It's just stupidity especially now. I don't understand why someone would stay there and not go back to reddit for a walled garden experience?
Yes excellent work explaining how this all works. This fragmentation is what I feared as it will cause users to get frustrated, give up and leave these communities.
Insane growth. Will be interesting to see how many of those continue to be active and actual users.
Reddit has around 55 million daily users and 430 million users who login once/month. It's a drop in the bucket compared to them, but it's good to build a viable alternative.
Ooh show me your kernel.
I don't think so. Although many will remain with Reddit, there is no incentive or loyalty for a significant % to do so. If reddit is shit, why not just use FB, Twitter or regular message boards? Already I saw many subreddits have discords already.
The question for most of those users is there a lesser evil in choosing one bad company over another? Unfortunately I just see this community content becoming fragmented as a result and no winners emerging.
I like Lemmy / kbin but I am concerned that a dev could just shutdown their server and a community, accounts are gone. Who pays the server bills, and maintenance backups etc? This seems incredibly problematic.
Beyond that they need a strong mobile app and 3P devs, a tool to read a users reddit profile and subscribe to similar channels, one click registration without selecting a server. It would be good to also have a mechanism for showing cross-platform posted content in a single view.
If honestly feels like the 90s wild west Internet days again. No alternative I have seen so far can address these concerns.
What? I see and use upvote and downvote buttons in Jerboa. In fact I just updated your comment.