What is the hype about Boost?

Honestly IMO it's a bit cringe for me that so many people are like, "fuck these Lemmy apps this [insert unreleased app] is amazing!".

Like calm down, lol. Let's see how it'll be first, a lot of the Lemmy apps are great right now.

Signed, a Reddit Boost user.

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While I have no allegiance to any particular app I am somewhat hyped for any and all established former Reddit apps to make the transition. Each release should hopefully bring a small bump of users with it. Also, the diversity of how a user can interact with fediverse is satisfying. Initially I was hoping for something along the lines of lemmyisfun or kbinisfun. Presently I'm enjoying connect for lemmy and anticipating whatever comes next.

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- I keep forgetting I have connect installed, I was using the Firefox pwa for a while and finally installed connect and jerboa to test them out
  
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Another Boost faithful here, really enjoying Liftoff. No rush needed.

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Liftoff is at a stage i don't need Sync to hurry anymore.

The apps were just lightyears behind anything we used for Reddit, it is getting there and i'm happy.

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- To me Liftoff looks a lot more cluttered than Jerboa.
  
  Loved Boost for Reddit.
  
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I'm loving Connect, it's everything I need.

I started with Jerboa TBH (who hasn't?), but Connect is much more refined IMO and I love the gestures.

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I've tried all the available Lemmy apps for Android and none of them are at good at Boost was. Anyway, the more the merrier

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- I can say the same for Infinity. That's what I'm really going to miss.
  
  Hopefully Boost is as good as it was, now with community small avatars.
  
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It was a really nice Reddit App, and the developer announced a Lemmy version. So if the Lemmy version is anything as good as the Reddit version, it'll be definitely one of the best apps out there. It's very needed in a time where all the Lemmy mobile apps are still pretty immature.

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It's not that it hasn't been released, it already exists. Boost was one of the 3rd party apps for Reddit considered to be one of the top 3 (second only to Apollo and RiF) in terms of performance and UX. Since Reddit booted them off their service, the developer announced he was simply going to rewrite the backend to support Lemmy with the same quality UX and performance that is already known.

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Boost was one of the 3rd party apps for Reddit considered to be one of the top 3 (second only to Apollo and RiF)

I can already hear the Sync fanboys pouring in from their discord to disagree.

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- Relay fanboy checking in, this guy is full of shit
  
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- Listen, I liked Sync's ui and I wanna go back to something familiar when sync for lemmy comes out okay lol
  
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PSA for all former apollo users: voyager for lemmy (wefwef.app) is what you’re looking for. Go to the site, press the share button, and press add to Home Screen. I always held out hope that apollo would be reincarnated for lemmy, but I never expected it to happen this fast and to work this well

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- My only complaint about Voyager is lack of Kbin support. Perfect otherwise.
  
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- vger.app works now
  
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Boost was my favourite Reddit app, couldn't tell you why off the top of my head because I've been using it for so long now

Think a lot of people are excited because it's the same app they're used to which was pretty damn good as far as Reddit apps went

Also I think for a lot of people it's closure to the whole leaving Reddit thing, at the moment I think the experience is more or less equivalent to what Reddit was but the interface can still be unfamiliar and janky sometimes. Makes Lemmy a drop in replacement for old Reddit users

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It's probably unrealistic to expect it to be as solid as it was as a reddit app. I loved boost and I'm sure I'll try it out, but I'm expecting it to be buggy and not as fully featured as Voyager, which I keep coming back to. Connect and Thunder are great too.

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I've been using connect for a few weeks, what does voyager offer that connect doesn't?

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- It's just a matter of personal preference. I like the look and feel of voyager better for some reason.
  
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Even a perfect reddit app would be very incomplete if ported - it seems like half the feature requests on c/connect are things like "block instance" "treat entire instance as nsfw", show/hide instance names on users / communities, "browse another instance's local feed", the kind of stuff that a reddit app would have no concept of

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The thing is that Boost was a really good 3rd party reddit app. It was very stable and had a lot of attention to detail and quality of life things you don't notice until it's gone.

If Boost really is going to come to Lemmy and be in the same or similar level of quality as it was on reddit, it's going to be awesome.

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It will be a Lemmy app made by a developer who previously worked on a popular Reddit app. If it beats sync out of the gate, it will be the first one to do so.

All the other apps have been from new or unknown sources. Boost is a known entity.

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Because it was great on Reddit. Personally, I used it from time to time and while it was pretty good, Infinity will always be my favourite. I wish we could get an Infinity for Lemmy but there is a team working on Infinity for Everything and it shows a lot of promise. I hope it becomes great.

As for Boost, I hope it's as good on Lemmy as it was on Reddit.

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Longtime RiF user up in here. I'm definitely gonna give it a shot as yeah the HYPE is mucho, but for now Liftoff scratches the itch. I feel like we're in this beautiful age of venturing out into the stars of the Fediverse and seeing what's out there. So yeah, endless newness and can't wait to see Boost and whatever is next

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I keep hoping for LiF. Last I saw he might work on a Tildes app but I didn't see any plans for Lemmy.

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- Dev is making one for tildes
  
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- I've not found anything that comes close to working as well as RIF yet
  
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I'm actually quite happy with the kbin mobile interface myself, coming from RIF. Very similar.

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Tangentially related: has anyone got app recommendations for a Relay for Reddit refugee? I have been using Connect and Liftoff and enjoying them both, but open to other suggestions. Will probably check out Boost when it releases, but since I haven't used Boost for Reddit I don't know what to expect.

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I so want a Relay for Lemmy app. Jerboa is pretty good, but I'm just so used to the swiping from Relay.

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I'm a Relay user. Getting used to Jerboa, Jerboa is fine. Will try Boost as well. There isn't a swipey app like Relay right now though. Hope dbrady makes his mind up about what Relay for Reddit is doing, then make a Lemmy version.

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- Thunder is pretty good
  
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- Liftoff is kinda swipey though! Currently you can only upvote and save when swiping a post or comment, personally I am missing the ability to downvote. I really miss the in-app browser from Relay also, was very convenient to just swipe between link and comments.
  
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Boost had nice features but was proprietary.

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If I paid for boost Reddit does it carry over.

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Anyone hearing anything about any of the iOS Reddit apps making a comeback on Lemmy? We’ve got several from the android side but I can’t recall hearing anything about iOS. You’d think Apollo would make a comeback here.. still hoping this is the case!

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there is wefwef, which is completely unaffiliated with apollo but is trying (and doing a very impressive job) to 1:1 mimic the apollo UI. try it out!

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because Boost for Reddit was fantastic, but Jerboa is also great so I'm pretty sure I'll flip flop between the two from time to time

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Jerboa reminds me of RiF with a few differences which is why I personally like it, I never used Boost, is it similar?

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- The creator of Jerboa (and actually, Lemmy itself) has said that he designed it to feel like Boost.
  
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- it's similar in its own ways. And I like the feels of both in different aspects.
  
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Will it have ads? I'm using connect and I'm just feeling like there's not enough ads. Had RIF and it had just the right amount of Ads. The masses won't take Lemmy seriously until we get more ads around here.

/s in case your panties just started to twist.

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My panties were starting to twist

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