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.

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    I’m gonna blame it on all the sync haters just commenting about how sync sucks and why FOSS is so much better.

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      I used Sync for Reddit for about 10 years but with the switch to the Fediverse I’ve adopted more of a FOSS mindset.

      My initial reaction was vitriolic for no other reason than being disappointed due to my own expectations. I’m sure it’s still a great app and I still absolutely appreciate and respect lj; it’s just not for me anymore. But that doesn’t give me the right to force my opinion on others.

      Ultimately I’m just happy we’re growing and I believe that’s what we should be focussing on.

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      What do you mean there are advertisements in my free app?

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      Still better to have all the discourse on Lemmy instead of Reddit :).

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      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.

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        Hey, you’re entitled to your opinion. I think it’s fair to say that most people here in the official sync community are going to disagree with you about it being a bad app. As for the FOSS philosophy, I genuinely don’t give a fuck. Cool that there are lots of FOSS alternatives but I like LJ and sync and have no issues supporting him. Nice that there are lots of options for different people.

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    3.9 million of those comments are people complaining about the price or that it’s not FOSS.

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      Think a fair few comments on it’s price is warranted considering it’s 25 USD (where historically sync for reddit was significantly cheaper)

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        I mean you don’t have to pay for Ultra. Sync is mostly free. It’s just a few extra features that are premium, so what are you all complaining about.

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        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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          No one is forcing anyone to pay for it. The app works fine without paying a dime.

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            Maybe we wanna buy it. But in my country lifetime of Ultra is 117 dollars. 117… dollars… Sync for Reddit cost me 4. Yes 4. I’m not even going to calculate percentage increase.

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              Sync for reddit Ultra was not $4 for lifetime. Removal of ads may have been. In the US its $99 for ultimate lifetime. $20 for lifetime removal of ads. Also the developer has already said he’s working on regional pricing.

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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!

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      I think it’s a good sign people are sticking around. A lot of people joined mastodon and instantly left because it was too much to figure out how to use. Lemmy is a lot better in its current state than where mastodon was during the first mass migrations.

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        I also think mastadon was trying to replace Facebook and twitter. A generalized assumption of those users is a lack of technical familiarity. Lemmy is the reddit alternative, and the users there tend to be way more technically proficient, or at least willing to learn.

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          I’ve never cared about Twitter so I guess it makes sence that I don’t care about mastodon, lemmy on the other hand is a lot of fun

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        Totally agree joined Lemmy today and it feels just like Reddit with a few extra steps but oh well. Mastodon is it’s own beast to tackle

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      Impressive! Honestly I can totally understand this growth myself because it mirrors very well my own interactions here. When third party apps died I came here, tried a bunch of apps, made a bunch of comments and then didn’t really stick around because I couldn’t find a good enough app I liked.

      Then when Sync released I have barely touched reddit and been 95% on Lemmy again.

      I am still very impressed if Sync alone is responsible for 4 million additional comments per day though. That is rather staggering if it’s true.

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      Mastodon has 2M active users and has been steady for quite a while now. Fediverse is growing, maturing. Also Lemmy is trying to compete with Reddit, and Mastodon is trying to compete wuth Twitter. Lemmy and Mastodon are not actually competing with each other.

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        An interesting tidbit: apparently there’s meshing between the two fediverse projects, given that they use the same platform. It’s a bit buggy though, and while you can ping people and they can comment here, it doesn’t really work the same way on the other side.

        At least there’s a remindme bot via mastodon.

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          apparently there’s meshing between the two fediverse projects, given that they use the same platform.

          What are you referring to exactly? Sounds a bit like kbin but I get the sense that’s not what you’re talking about.

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            You can tag mastodon users on here, and they can follow us and reply when you create a post (either comment or post)

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    it’s people arguing about whether or not they use sync

    … honestly tho I wouldn’t be surprised, I’m using it a lot more now 🤷‍♂️

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    Lemmy has become my main social media app already. Mastodon is painful to use for me. I just don’t like the Twitter format, and the lack of algo is unbearable.

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      This is me. I don’t know why I thought Mastodon would click for me when Twitter never did. I can’t bring myself to yell into the void. Maybe I’m just doing it wrong, idk. Much happier here.

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        Yeah definitely a different kind of social media. I come on here to browse the trending content and see what other people are saying about it. It’s content focused, rather then Mastodon where it’s focused on a person’s single post and gets easily buried among low effort posts.

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          Thanks for putting down my vague impression into clear words. I couldn’t agree more!

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        I feel the same, I stopped using Twitter in 2010 when I realized I was neither funny nor popular and nobody cared about what I had for breakfast or how far I ran. Gave mastadon a try recently because I am interested in Fediverse but the feeling is same

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      Yeah honestly completely the same here, I had no clue how to actually find anything, and I far prefer engaging with communities, not people

      And Mastodon has no top sorting or anything, is it was kinda useless to me

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    I actually switched to sync too. But still think the prices are nuts and they need to come down for me to pay for it.

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      Waiting for the one time payment to get rid of ads. Paid it on reddit, will (probably) pay it on lemmy.

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        Wdym? There’s currently two one time payments. Ultra lifetime removes ads and, shockingly, “Remove ads” also removes ads

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          The money will come if the app is version 1.0 with all essential features. Not earlier. I do not like paying for stuff that is “promised”. Linus from LTT mentioned it many times and I stand behind it.

          Same with promised DLCs and early access.

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            It’s in v23.x currently. Not v0.23. Nor is it mentioned anywhere on the app store or in the app that it’s still in beta and missing essential features.

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          https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/1677830

          The money will come if the app is version 1.0 with all essential features. Not earlier. I do not like paying for stuff that is “promised”. Linus from LTT mentioned it many times and I stand behind it.

          Same with promised DLCs and early access.

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            What features are promised exactly? As far as I can tell all the same features from the reddit app are here and working.

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      Would love to support the developer but definitely not at those prices. I block ads anyway, so I never see any.

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          Too bad mine does not offer paypal…Too god damn many people assume all folks have a CC…

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            Most people do.

            In 2019, there were approximately 22.8 billion credit, debit, and prepaid cards in use worldwide. This number is expected to reach 29.31 billion by 2023. The number of general purpose and private label debit cards increased 3.8% to 6.28 billion between 2019 and 2020. In 2021, the overall credit card in circulation reached 64 million. According to a Forbes Advisor survey from February 2023, 54% of consumers use a physical or virtual debit card and 36% of consumers use a physical or virtual credit card.

            And the vast majority of those not using them are not valuable as customers.

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    Checks out tbh. Around 90% of the web’s overall traffic is viewed from tablets and mobile devices. Having a good mobile/app experience is essential for user traffic - how many of us are on the web while in bed, on the toilet, eating breakfast, half-watching TV, on break at work, etc…?

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    Yeah, but 2 million of those comments where “Yay, Sync!” and the other 2 million were “REEE, Sync!”

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    I’m on lemmy significantly more since the sync launch. Both jerboa and liftoff were pretty half baked in comparison… Really hoping more people from Reddit will join

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      Same boat as you, used to encounter multiple bugs and crashes with Jerboa… Since switching to Sync I haven’t encountered a single crash.

      I really like how it auto translates links to comments on other instances and has lots of other small QoL features that show the dev really cares about the app.

      Other users who are just choosing apps by how the UI looks and Lemmy’s stock features have missed a lot of the things that make Sync stand out 🤷‍♂️ I’ve customised mine to resemble Infinity (the app I used for reddit) and I’m pretty damn satisfied rn with the gestures, performance and much longer battery life when browsing.

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      I just got here 2 days ago because of Sync. More will come.

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    Honestly, I learned that I like how sync presents content to me,and it’s really less about what site it’s for

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    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.