Sync has been my mobile Reddit driver for over a decade and when Reddit dialed its enshitification to eleven and banned third party clients I immediately jumped over to Lemmy, but the available clients weren't quite up to snuff. Good for how new they were (e.g. Voyager) but Sync is a very mature app.<p>Having Sync for Lenny has been great so far, it feels like a lesser populated Reddit, for all intents and purposes, and I have zero need to go back to Reddit at this point.<p>I see this as a win for the Fediverse, and there are plenty of open source Lemmy clients out there for those who don't quite gel with the closed source nature of Sync.
For those of use who are old reddit fans, <a href="https://old.lemmy.world" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://old.lemmy.world</a> was exists and is close enough.
Link to the app listing (op’s link goes to the data safety info):<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.syncapps.lemmy_sync">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.syncapps.le...</a>
Thunder [1] is also worth checking out. IMO its UI is even slicker than Sync's, plus it's open source and not ad-supported/freemium. If you ever used Relay for Reddit, you'll feel right at home.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder">https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder</a>
There’s also ‘wefwef’ which is a SPA that’s highly based on the look and feel of Apollo for Reddit on iOS - <a href="https://wefwef.app/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://wefwef.app/</a><p>I think they did a pretty good job with making it feel like an app, rather than a web page. If you add it to your Home Screen on iOS it’s imperceptible to an app and fixes safari lagging when you swipe back a page.
There is also Infinity for Lemmy. Feels like home...
<a href="https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy</a>
Any signs of rif is fun for Lemmy? I've tried reaching out for the source code myself but got no response.<p>Edit: Oh! The developer is working on a tildes app: <a href="https://www.talklittle.com/rif-is-fun/whats-next" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.talklittle.com/rif-is-fun/whats-next</a> Guess I'll just be waiting patiently, then.
The "Everything across the known Fediverse" option is pretty awesome. I was worried about the UX of searching and adding instances so this is an interesting take. I'll have to try it out
I used Sync for the last couple years and having it for Lemmy is great. It feels like I'm browsing Reddit and has made the transition much easier. I wish I could leave Reddit entirely, but there are a couple of subs that don't yet have an equivalent on Lemmy.
Since there are other alternatives in the comments, I'll toss out Connect for Lemmy <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.l...</a> which I find much nicer than Sync<p>One should also try <a href="https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa#readme">https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa#readme</a> from one of the Lemmy contributors
Sync makes Lemmy feel a lot like Reddit, especially since it used to be my go-to app a year ago. Lemmy feels like it's been flooded with repost bots from Reddit making the content feel a lot less engaging.<p>Personally I'm okay not having the topic on Lemmy if there aren't any people posting about it.
So good! Kinda just feels like I wouldn't even be able to tell the difference, save for my subreddits not being there. Love Sync, had always been my go-to app, and I'm glad it has a future.
There is also Boost for Lemmy <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayay...</a><p>Have been using Boost for reddit for years, still using it with ReVanced patch.
I'm going to have to give this one a huge thumbs down. Injecting ads into a free and open source webapp that previously did not have any just to get people to buy your ad free version is the kind of thing Lemmy is trying to get away from. This is quite unacceptable in my opinion. If the developer removes the ad-ridden version and only makes a single purchase paid version then it would be acceptable as you would be buying the software rather than paying them to escape the ads that they themselves added.<p>As it stands the developer of Sync is basically profiting off of the free content of others by injecting ads next to all of their posts and comments.