I don’t know if this is just a placebo effect, but it feels like there’s a lot more socialization and faster upvotes in the past hour Sync was released.

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      Syncforlemmy has 12.8k subscribers.

      Loads of them were poised ready to strike once the beta launched.

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        But aren’t the people subbed here already on Lemmy? I was waiting for the client to come out too and switched immediately, but I was already using Lemmy with other clients before sync came out.

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          I was subbed, and used it by browser a bit.

          But Sync feels like home. And once more I’m enthused about using a platform.

          Threads never stood a chance with me. I closed down and deleted my Facebook/insta accounts ages ago. All they have is my ghost profile. Reddit app and site are ass on mobile, which is the main device profile I use for social media.

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            I’m not the biggest fan of the usability of the default lemmy clients either, but there are tons of other clients too. Sync is the best on mobile right now, but connect was really good before too, not as polished or stable, but still very good and much better than jerboa. Also, lots of web instances support old. subdomains that host an old.reddit style ui if that’s what you preferred in desktop. Just add old. as a subdomain for the instance to see if they have it hosted.

            All together the amount of choice we now have on Lemmy (and soon to be even more with big new clients coming out) has gotten really really good! Even better is there’s not corporate platform monopoly that could ever take that away. I’m much more excited about the platform too.

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          Lemmy was pretty unusable and hard to post/comment. Default web UI is buggy as hell, you have to reload the page multiple times to post anything or even switch pages when browsing. Jerboa is even worse. For example, I can’t even bloody login into LW through Jerboa!

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      Spez’s biggest mistake was sending all the world class 3rd party developers working to make Reddit better straight to his biggest competitor.

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        Sync has nice features that let you customize your experience pretty nicely. It feels like using Reddit which for some of us that migrated is a great experience.

        On top of that, it is fully functional in a tablet mode style with larger devices and it just works really well. The layout of the app also makes it seem a little easier on the user to add instances and accounts. There is also a migrate button, scheduled theme modes, and other nifty little tucked in features. Give it a try if you like it but the Ultra subscription to help the dev. 100% worth it.

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        Purpose wise the same. They’re different apps like chrome vs Firefox or Outlook vs thunder bird. Lots of us are excited about sync because it’s a very polished client and the Reddit version was being developed for years with polish and functionally being added that entire time. It’s made by a dev who is very good at making apps and I assume a lot of the Reddit client code base could be reused so the polished experience could be transferred to the Lemmy client.

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        Your best bet is to really just give it a try. For me, it’s about the polish and UI customizations.