“Sync for Lemmy is happening!”

As a fellow iOS user, Memmy is pretty sweet for a version 0.0 beta app.

Really enjoying Memmy too! Dev seems to be moving at a quick pace. The app is already functional and getting better each day
- Yea I’m digging Memmy too!
Both memmy and mlem have been great in their own ways thus far. Both are in testflight and getting regular updates, in addition to the news about sync there is also news about another new one called artemis that is aiming to be apollo styled.
Yea it’s definitely a good start!
How have I not found this!?
I wanted to check out Mlem, but it’s full. Lemur I think is discontinued. There is one that’s coming called Artemis, but that’s not available yet.
Memmy is honestly just what I was looking for. Cheers!
- Im using jerboa and it looks great!
- I’ve been testing both and I definitely prefer Memmy overall. Mlem has better image display options and has search. Memmy doesn’t display images unless you tap on the post. Search should be released in the next day or two, though.
  Artemis being an Apollo clone had me very excited, though.
  Edit: new app just released on TestFlight showing real promise: Limbo
- You are able to login with a kbin acc on it?
Would you like a more 'Material' lemmy app on iOS??
- No
Yeah I’ve been enjoying Memmy. Considering how early it is, it works really well.

This is exactly why I never pick iphones, because a good chunk of the time you miss out on all the niche things you can do on a smartphone.

- I would not get your hopes up. The last I heard the rumor said that you would only be able to side load on an iPhone if it was activated on a European carrier
I never pic up an iPhone because Mac discontinued support for my $6000 editing computer within two years when they scrapped the mac towers and went laptop only.
- Which one was that?
My first smartphone ran Android 2.0 and back then apps were developed for iOS first. How the times have changed.

Please let that also be a Lemmy instance, Lemmy needs horizontal distributed scaling.
- This is how I've been thinking Lemmy can scale. Sync can host their own instance funded by premium subscribers. In other cases, a group of friends with common local interests can host an instance with their local channels plus caching posts on other instances, and peoppe could connect to that or lemmy.world for free and see the same content.
SHIT. THIS IS AWESOME !!!
Man, I love sync and can't wait to continue using it.

Time to join us Android bros

Happy for Android users, but for those that don’t know, on iOS, we have three apps in beta we can download, and all three are very good with the current state they are in. I suggest giving anyone of them a try.

Memmy Join the Memmy App beta - TestFlight - Apple https://testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD

Mlem Join the Mlem beta - Testing Apps with TestFlight https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc

Limbo https://testflight.apple.com/join/e6ZEbxuR

Thank you! mlem beta is full but was able to get into the others.
- Nice same!
Thank you for sharing this! I was searching for an iOS app.

You already have like 3 apps. We have jerboa. Jerboa.

Actually, a new Android client called Thunder has entered Alpha. It's SEVERELY lacking in features as of now, though.
- I like Flutter based apps, so that makes me happy. I saw it a couple of days ago and while it is lacking in features, it does feel nice to use and looks much better than Jerboa IMO.
- There is also summit and connect
And Jerboa probably won't be updated for a while with the devs so busy working on Lemmy.
- Is jerboa first party?

I mean sync had and iOS version so it’s not out of the realm of possibility.

pls pls pls pls

What do we have to do to convince Christian Selig to make Apollo for Lemmy?

I already pay for Apollo, I'd happily keep paying for Apollo for Lemmy, I'm sure tons of users would.
Try wefwef, it’s very similar to Apollo

Been using sync (paid) for over 10 years, will instantly buy a Lemmy version

I've never used sync, what makes it compelling?
- Feature rich. Basically whatever way you want to view Reddit, it has it. It also played videos much better for me than the official app. Very customizable and great ease of use.
- For me, it was the swipe quick actions, true black dark theme, and how the comments were nested.
  It just felt right 12 years ago, I'll insta buy again

The official community is on Lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy

There's also a subreddit r/syncforlemmy

I dare say he'll be wanting to get out a functional app before implementing things like support for Kbin. Bjt it's worth requesting it as the more who, perhaps the more priority it will get.

Your url is a bit messed up. See my comment's source for how to format your url.
!syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

Just waiting for Christian to announce he's rewriting Apollo....

Man the ad for lemmy if he announced it with a pop up on Apollo reddit opening
- That would make spez so incredibly angry. And then promoting it on reddit in his subreddit and then people posting it to the apple sub would make me not surprised if he banned Apollo sub out of anger.
Same! I hope he’s considering it… Lemmy + Apollo would make it 1000x more attractive for Reddit users to enjoy Reddit without the management team’s constant fuckery.
- I mean, I would throw some more money his way if he decided to integrate it with Lemmy. It’s a good app, and has been reliably functional for years, through all the various iterations of Reddit jiggery-pokery.
  Also, if he does, a client app outliving it’s target service and migrating to support another competitor service would obviously become known as “pulling an Apollo”.
After everything that happened, let the man enjoy his forced vacation for like a year before going back into the fray.

Any idea if there's a chance that the app will be open-source?

Unlikely as its ios
- Maybe it's on both?
  I know it was for years on Google Play.

Love Sync, but I wish Infinity also implemented Lemmy support.

I need an Apollo alternative. Memmy app for iOS comes close though 😄

Praise be.

Meanwhile I‘m just using the Safari Shortcut on the Home Screen. Works just as good as an app. If you‘re in beta test mood you can check out MLEM. It’s available through the Test Flight App.

Though you can’t pull to refresh on a safari shortcut..

I always used RIF for reddit but I'll definitely give Sync a try if this actually ends up happening

Fwiw, the dev for RIF has announced they're going to be making an app for Tildes.
- How do we get them to make Lemmy Is Fun?
- It's unfortunate that tildes is invite-only. I also secretly wish they would federate their website with us somehow, but I guess we can't have everything. :p
Used sync when I still had an Android phone. IMO the best 3rd party app for reddit.

Isn't it always. lol

So what does this mean?

I'm totally here for it. Mobile web PWA via Native Alpha Plus works best at the moment.

just a PSA, remember you can still use Lemmy as a PWA ("install" lemmy.world from safari as a shortcut)

Doesn't that have full screen ads now?

what community do I join for updates?

https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy
- Okay I'm using jerboa and I just can't get that type of FQ link to open in the app instead of the browser.

I cannot wait!

The early days of reddit were wild with everyone making third party apps. This will be like that again but now we have established Devs throwing their hat in the ring to make their versions of Lemmy Apps.

Boost for Lemmy?

hell ye

I have been using Limbo which feels pretty good. https://testflight.apple.com/join/e6ZEbxuR

Wow, Limbo seems pretty advanced compared to lemmy and memmy, thanks for sharing.
- Actually pretty impressed on first impressions!

What about Sync for kbin?

They're federated so it shouldn't really matter that much?
I guess we could do KiF once the API is read/write...
- IIRC, there are some slight differences in API so Jerboa doesn't work on Kbin. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Please support kbin!

Hahaha I was about to comment that this is how I felt before realizing the meme was exactly that. I thought this was another excited android user.
I’ve tried mlem and I’m going to try memmy but honestly kbin w/ kbin enhancement suite has been my preferred option. I just wish we could enable KES on the PWA version.

Wait......there is a kbin enhancement suite!? Where? I cannot find it. I have used RES on reddit since forever!
Edit: I think I found it?
- That's it!