Unless anyone knows another reason for this impressive increase in comments? Seems to roughly coincide with Sync launching. If thats the case, just goes to show the importance of good third party apps.
Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
EDIT: Looks like a confusingly labeled graph and I think this is total comments. I have no idea why that spike could exist though.
I’m gonna blame it on all the sync haters just commenting about how sync sucks and why FOSS is so much better.
Lol
What do you mean there are advertisements in my free app?
lol. 3m comments, sync users and sync haters. Probably right.
So, should we thank them?
I just don’t get the love for Sync. It was the best reddit app on Android like 10 years ago, but so many other apps surpassed it a while ago. Boost was smoother and had more options. As for iOS, Alien Blue and then Apollo were much better.
With lemmy, you’ve got great apps like memmy and Thunder that are imo better than Sync.
So you’re dealing with ads (or paying for closed source software) just to use a worse product that kinda goes against the FOSS philosophy Lemmy is built on.
Completely agree, Thunder is SO much better and completely ad free.
Top 6 app behind X (still can’t get used to that stupid name) and before Facebook lite… not bad
It’s currently #10 in the Google Play store, under the “social” category. (First is TikTok.)
Depends on your region. I’m in Canada and it’s 6th here.
The odd thing is, their screenshot is on the play store as well, you can see the logo next to installed apps. However, when I check on my phone, it matches yours.
Like @skye pointed out, I suspect it might indeed be based on region. I remember another thread where a user reported seeing Sync rated at 3 stars, whereas others reported 5 stars.
Ratings on play store are indeed localized (by region) but also by device type so it ensure that the ratings is relevant to your device (as the app experience can be extremely different on different devices running different Android version and/or Roms)
It also shows only ratings from the last of few last released versions in order to no skew the results with old versions of the app
Might be region dependent?
Not surprising. Sync has made Lemmy a near-seamless change for me.
Sync was Reddit for me. So when Reddit decided to end all 3rd party apps, it was also the end of Reddit for me. Now with Sync for Lemmy it feels like I can pick off exactly where I left off and it feels great. Maybe even slightly better, because it feels like more people are interested in the comments you write and more of them interact with you.
Same except for Apollo on iOS.
Glad to be here. Everything feels less shill-y and spammy. No more 500 of the same shitty comments in every thread
- Username checks out
- This deserves more upvotes
- “This”
- Came here to say this
- Made an account just to say I agree
- Lost it at ______
- Sigh *unzips*
Underrated Comment
I felt anger reading this. I think I just scrolled past it on reddit but lord almighty is it annoying
If I never see another goddamn unzip in my life I will die happy lmao
Agreed wholeheartedly.
And like someone posted about we’re not constantly policing ourselves with /s because the folks here are adults. On reddit it had gotten so vitriolic I didn’t post often because someone was going to jump you for having a differing opinion or to express their faux outrage that you liked cheese on broccoli or whatever.
Let’s just hope everyone stays understanding and able to keep minor differences unfought. I hope the option of defederation helps in that regard.
I just made an account to reply to this lol. I finally bit the bullet and started using Lemmy a few days ago, the community here is of course much smaller than reddit but I would describe the comments here as being like the 1 in 10 comments on reddit that actually made me want to keep using the site. You don’t see as many one word throw away pun comments here, which I’m not necessarily against but it gets very grating over time.
I just downloaded relay yesterday, I was always a RIF user but using relay in “sure drawer” mode is a pretty similar experience. Everyone here seems very chill and nice
Same, long time SyncPro user here (10 years), I stopped using reddit in June, I spent all my July on lemmy with PWA, Jerboa, Connect, etc, there was so much problems in the beginning with crash, network errors, etc. it was a jungle, dozens of new instances per day, etc. It is all stable now, I used Jerboa the most. First day Sync for Lemmy was out I installed it, it was like I never left the old site, same layout, colours, functionalities, gesture, etc. Sync for Lemmy is a saviour for sure. I didn’t want the subscribe, I bought the noads version the minute it was out.
Yep. It’s like reddit never shat the bed and just spontaneously split into dozens of smaller sites.
Yeah, this.
I tried a bunch of apps when I moved over to Lemmy. Some were really good however Sync just felt like home. Instantly back to normal from a user experience perspective.
3.9 million of those comments are people complaining about the price or that it’s not FOSS.
Think a fair few comments on it’s price is warranted considering it’s 25 USD (where historically sync for reddit was significantly cheaper)
No, no, no. You’re not allowed to complain about a price hike from £2 to £19 even though the apps are basically the same in UX and concept and LJ was able to push out a semi functional beta in a matter of weeks. Because complaining about it makes you a ‘baby’ apparently and everyone should be willing to part with £19 without blinking, to buy an app to use a service that has barely gotten off the ground and nobody knows will be around in a year at this point. I understand people are excited, and people want to support LJ (I have, loads, over the years) but this community doesn’t seem to even want a proper discourse about this and prefers to resort to shitty insults. Not sure that’s the kind of community I can see myself growing into, personally. To me, that asking price is insanely greedy and a bit delusional considering there are other strong alternatives already popping up. I’ve been loyal to Sync for 10 years I think, but times are tough money is tight, and nobody knows if Lemmy is going to succeed yet. We need big numbers on this platform and keeping costs down would surely aid in that effort. But he must have done his calculations so I respect his decision. If he doesn’t revert I’ll have to look at the alternatives.
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Its almost like having good third party apps can benefit a community! Who would have ever seen this coming! I sure didnt!
+1 from Infinity
I still don’t know how this all works, but I’ll just keep blindly using it because I like Sync, and Laurence deserves our support.
Well the sole reason now my account exists and has so many replies is coz of sync.
Boost for reddit is also releasing soon, expect this chart to blow up once again.
Yep can’t wait! Has the dev given any ETA?
I would suspect it is another burst of Reddit users. I’ve just joined from Reddit because the third party app I used there (RiF) has stopped working this week. I can’t have been the only one whose app had zombied along for a month, died and then left me googling for Reddit alternatives.
It was the same for me
yeah I came here because RIF finally stopped working
Boost still works for me (I’ve created a subreddit to moderate)
you can make sync look A LOT like RIF. Now for Reddit may be good for you but fully switching to lemmy is better
All third party apps went offline AFAIK.
On my side (writing from Sync) I was using Native A and basically using the web version of Lemmy, and when I clicked on a post it meant going all the way up and losing where I was in my feed, so I stop responding for a long time
Also, whenever I clicked on a post from the browser there was about 50/50 chance the comments would even load in the first place. Since Sync was released, it’s like I’m back home on Reddit. The browser works perfectly. I can hide posts I’ve already read. I can open the comments. I can leave comments.
People might not like Sync because it’s not FOSS or whatever but I don’t care. I barely even notice the adds and don’t give a shit about Google getting some of my analytics. I just wanna browse and forget my shitty existence.
Od day for now the level of adds Is correct, in not certain yet on which App I will end up only using, I am nor pro Sync not against, I simply want to use Lemmy and have a good time
I’m certainly here after that
I tried using Liftoff and Connect. For whatever reason they didn’t recognize my login 99% of the time. So far Sync works well and actually allows me to comment.
Yeah, had that same issue with connect. Just waited it out knowing sync was coming soon. Now that I’ve switched I don’t seem to be having any of those problems. Feels just like when I was using sync for reddit.
I’m using something called connect. I’m not sure why I picked this one but it works quite well. Is sync so much better? The hype around it is so impressive I feel I must be missing something.
It’s a very emotional thing for many of us. I’ve beed using reddit on sync exclusively, I just couldn’t be arsed to use the web version any more.
So when they killed third party apps, reddit was dead to me. Not only because of the terrible user experience of the web site and official app, but mostly because of the way they treated the developers after all those years.
After the lemmy version came out, I opened it up and everything was back to normal (except for the missing content).
I’m really hoping that the devs of other apps succeed in the transition as well and they manage to get a good portion of their users to join as well.
As for the FOSS fundamentalists: I really don’t get it. I’ve worked on open source projects in the past, when I felt I could contribute. I don’t get all the hate being directed towards sync though. You like your FOSS-app? Great! I prefer sync and I’m happy to support the author.
Sync has a better ui and customization (in my opinion) and more functions ALTHOUGH at the moment posting and hiding posts doesn’t work, so I don’t know if I can recommend it at the moment
Connect is perfectly fine. I just used sync for a long time and like some particular things about it (e.g., being able to jump from one comment tree to the next reliably and quickly).
If it weren’t for Sync I’d still be using Connect. Connect is, in my opinion, the 2nd best app for Lemmy right now.
I would love to have the designer of RIF put their talents back in to making something that works out here free from the matrix.
They are working on an app for Tildes, another forum kind of website. It’s called Three Cheers for Tildes! Currently in alpha on android, iOS currently under development.
To put it bluntly, RIF is absolute garbage. The design is completely outdated and feels like a step backward from where we were even a few years ago
It’s not only because of Sync alot of other FOSS apps were released or got an update around the same time.
Yup. And most of the new comments are about these apps for Lemmy 😂
