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.
So, should we thank them?
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.
What do you mean there are advertisements in my free app?
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lol. 3m comments, sync users and sync haters. Probably right.
Still better to have all the discourse on Lemmy instead of Reddit :).
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.
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.
I never said it was bad.
I just don’t get why people would use it over alternatives that have more features, are more stable, are free, and don’t include ads…
Top 6 app behind X (still can’t get used to that stupid name) and before Facebook lite… not bad
Just call it Twitter like everyone else lol.
A. It’s more convenient and clear. B. It will probably piss off Musk.
Now B is a cause I can get behind…
I like the “corporations don’t get to have deadnames” take
And nary a hint of the Official Reddit app in that screenshot. What could’ve possibly happened??? Ya just hate to see it, or not see it I guess
Wow that’s impressive.
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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.
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.
Also there’s less friction to picking an instance. I’m not so worried about losing an anonymous account so I’ve made several on multiple instances
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
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
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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Good point. I’m unsure on the exact dates/times/timezones involved but it does sort of look like there was a good increase in comments maybe a day or so before Sync release. If that is not Sync though I’m struggling to think what else would cause it…
I think a couple apps restarted on Lemmy around the same time Sync came out. I know boost showed up, and I’ve seen a bunch of newly released app announcement threads in the last week.
Probably a combination of new and better apps. I know I basically just lurked until sync came out. It just feels familiar, and all the features I want are just here. The only thing I think I want, is to see how many down votes are on posts, but it’s literally the only thing I can think of.
In my case I was using a 3rd party app that was only barred from signing in to reddit, but I was still able to read and navigate the website until a few days ago. Now it seems that they have cut that access off so that drove me to create an account here.
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
Can’t tell if this is ironic satire
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This
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.
I watched that happen today, but they were arguing that Tim Martin of Wetherspoons fame is a nice guy.
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
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Haha I meant to say Sync
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This is my experience as well. I haven’t found lemmy to be difficult to navigate on my computer, but on my phone it was a bit messy - but with sync back everything is as it was for me.
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)
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.
25$ isn’t for ultra though but just to remove the ads, ultra is more expensive still
Ah I didn’t even catch that. Either way you can use sync without paying
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.
No one is forcing anyone to pay for it. The app works fine without paying a dime.
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.
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!
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.
Lol yeah I agree with Mastodon. I checked it out and it’s like…yep looks like Twitter, and I fucking hate Twitter, just feels like some weird celebrity and brand worship platform. The focus on Lemmy/Reddit at least is the content, and nobody really cares who posted or created it for the most part. Everyone is equal and content speaks for itself, it’s a far nicer concept to me.
Completely agree, I hate how it’s user worship centric like that.
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.
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.
Thanks for putting down my vague impression into clear words. I couldn’t agree more!
Mastodon where it’s focused on a person’s single post
This is a good observation, it means that kind of social media (twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) is much more egotistical and self-aggrandizing,which in turn explains why people like Musk and Trump are so enamoured with the format.
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
Even I kinda find it very hard to find good content on Mastodon.
It’s just a plain timeline which I’m not sure I like atm.
Sync definitely made me a regular on Lemmy
Same. And I started commenting in Sync since I kept getting errors when trying it in Jerboa.
It doesn’t work on Sync either. We don’t see your comments.
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.
You’ll catch on. It’s just like using Reddit, except each subreddit includes a web address in the name. Other than that, it’s mostly the same.
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.
I really do wish RIF dev would make a lemmy app version. I absolutely loved that app for over a decade.
Likewise. When RIF died, so did my reddit habit. Lemmy has filled the void nicely, and better every day
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.
Welcome!
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 🤷♂️
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.
Would love to support the developer but definitely not at those prices. I block ads anyway, so I never see any.
Remember the instance owner too if you can :)
Too bad mine does not offer paypal…Too god damn many people assume all folks have a CC…
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.
How to block ads on sync?
I’m going back and forth still between Connect and Sync. Two reasons: can’t post from Sync yet and 2) lots of failed to load image bugs in Sync (which oddly enough, preview works fine for those images that failed to load).
The second one might be related to lemmy.world being dosed. I don’t get any issues (anymore) on feddit.de
No issues for me on my instance. Probably Lemmy.world rate limiting or something.
Waiting for the one time payment to get rid of ads. Paid it on reddit, will (probably) pay it on lemmy.
Wdym? There’s currently two one time payments. Ultra lifetime removes ads and, shockingly, “Remove ads” also removes ads
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.
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.
It already exists. It’s $20.
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.
What features are promised exactly? As far as I can tell all the same features from the reddit app are here and working.
Imagine when the dev adds the ability to post from the app
It still puzzles me why it was not added at release.
It is one of the most basic features for a social media app.
Because building features takes time, and sync is useful in it’s current state. Why not release it?
You got me wrong, I am happy with the release of Sync. I am just puzzled by the missing basic feature.
Because it’s not done yet?
It’s a core capability, but it’s a lot of work due to all the different types of thing you can post.
An app that can read posts and write comments is still useful without submitting posts, but an app that can submit posts but not read them is pretty useless. So, when you’re making stuff you do reading posts first, then you do writing comments, then you do submitting posts. That makes sense, right?
Let’s say it takes a few weeks to do each, and you’ve got to the stage where you’ve done reading and comments, but not submitting. That’s useful already! You’re not done, but what you’ve got is still useful for people and people want it, so why not release it at that point? Then carry on working and release the remaining features after.
Releasing as early as you can is good for everyone - the developer starts getting income for the work they’re doing, they learn about bugs and issues earlier in the development process and we get to start using it sooner. For me Sync without submitting is still better than the other apps, so I want to use it.
Not important. The amount of comments:posts is probably >10:1
So having comments being 10x as important than a post is kinda self explanatory.
But the sync app is still in beta so for 1.0 it will probably be done.Still in beta but already wanting people to spend money to remove ads or get Ultra
The dev needs to eat. You’re not forced to give him money, stop complaining.
I’m not saying the prices are too high or not justified. I just don’t think you can excuse missing features by saying it’s still in beta when at the same time full pricing is in place.
I’ll be honest I didn’t even notice it was missing until I read this thread, but I’m not too bent out of shape about it
Let’s see what you would do if you want to make this a full time job and would want to buy groceries.
I give you ~6 months until your savings are burned through amd you decide that you need to charge a bit or open donations.
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
I just got here 2 days ago because of Sync. More will come.
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.
I used it for years on that other site, so when it came out for lemmy it felt like coming home. Not sure how much is just muscle memory and being used to it, but the design and interface are really well done.
Before Sync I settled on Connect, it’s a really nice app. But Sync is a great app, one of the best implementations of Material I’ve used. And its UI is the result of years of work on the Reddit app, so it’s got a lot more features and is already more polished than the others, despite being in beta.
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).
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
Sync has a lot more features. Direct imgur upload from commenting, live comment mode (if Lemmy ever gets big enough for game threads), open communities in new windows are some of my favorites.
I think some sports communities could sustain game threads here. The soccer community seems to have mostly stayed on Reddit, but Formula 1 definitely is active enough here for live threads for races.
A lot of the functionality isn’t ready yet including submitting posts - but it’s coming. Connect is currently more complete but Sync will get there soon.
Connect is actually heavily inspired by sync. Sync’s nice, but maybe only a bit more polished then connec, otherwise the interface is very similar. When I tried sync the other day the search wasn’t working, so I think I’ll just stay with connect. Honestly, I never used sync for Reddit so when I tried it after hearing all the hype I was kinda let down. It’s nice but it’s in the same league as like 3 or 4 other apps imo (assuming they fixed search)
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.
