Boost for Lemmy is happening!

Great news. I'm probably more likely to use Sync, but seeing not one but two well regarded Android Reddit apps migrate to Lemmy is just bloody awesome.

Really missing Relay :(
- The developer has just announced that Relay will continue to function and will switch to a subscription model, so there probably won't be a Relay for Lemmy, unfortunately :(
- Relay is my top preference.
- Me too.
- Relay was the best. There were so many great simple features that a surprising number of Lemmy apps are missing
- I hope Relay for Lemmy becomes a thing. My fav for years.
- I'm not missing Relay's trackers in the paid app.
- Thunder feels pretty close. Turn on compact mode + thumbnails on the right and it's visually almost identical to how I had Relay set up. It even has the short swipe to upvote, long swipe to downvote actions.
  https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder
don't forget about infinity too
Sync literally went off the play store about an hour ago :(
Edit: Looks like Sync for Lemmy is happening! https://syncapps.io/
Is Sync migrating too?
- Yes, it's going to be called Sync for Lemmy and preregistration opened two days ago. It most likely will still be some weeks before it becomes available. Ljdawson stated the target is 6 weeks, so that would be somewhere in the middle of August.
Same. I used Boost for a while until I found Sync. I imagine the same will happen here.

This is what finally made me create a Lemmy account.

Same! Let's goooooo!
Seriously, same here. Can't wait for this to release.

Fuck yes. Boost was my favorite reddit app.

Mine too! I've tried other but always came back to Boost.
Boost is so good I explicitly just made this account to use it in case kbin support isn't planned. Can't wait to pay for premium again and feel like nothing changed.

Round 2

I will launch that 🚀 as soon as the app is available. Pre-registration is done, let's goooooooo.

LONG LIVE THE KING

The promise of Boost for Lemmy is what got me to sign up.

As a boost user this is weird... So many people were asking in the subreddit and he never answered. I'm glad it's happening

Reddit user for over 10 years, here for good. I was a long time Sync user and at some point I switched to Boost and I'm not sure why because I also purchased Sync Pro at some point. My two favorite Android apps being developed to work with Lemmy made me create a new account here and I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes.

This is the most exiting fedinews I've ever read.

Thank you Ruben!

It seems like the future for Lemmy is pretty bright with all these amazing apps switching over.

It's a shame that Christian decided to not develop Apollo for Lemmy for the time being. I bet that would also convince a fair share of users to abandon ship.

Between Boost and Sync, Lemmy is emerging as a promising option because there's going to be multiple strong 3rd party apps to engage with.

Nice, Boost was my reddit app of choice

Boost wasn't just my favorite Reddit app but my favorite App in general. I love the clean design so much. When the Lemmy App is released I will launch the Rocket to the Moon

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Same. I imagine there hasn't been anything official from Reddit as they are trying to cut off 3rd party apps on phases to avoid a massive drop in traffic.

Think of it as smoothing the transition to increase their odds that people will cave to "peer pressure" and just download the official app.

Best friggin news all day.

I've tried just about every android app for reddit and have firmly been a boost user since I tried it years ago. I was metlntally prepping myself for sync but now I may not have to!

Let's fucking GOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I know there's a megathread for all lemmy clients, old and new. I just can't find it. Maybe you guys know? Or Is there a community? I just want an actual list of all lemmy apps.

I've been kind of expecting this move from a community person like Mr. Mayayo. I'm going to launch the rocket in a heart beat !

I never used Boost for Reddit, but with this many people singing it's praises... ***BOOST FOR LEMMY, LET'S GOOO! *** Sorry, Connect. You're still cool tho

I literally just discovered Connect after trying in vain to get Jerboa to work ahah. I'm so used to Boost, I can't wait for it to be inolimented here.

first Sync, now Boost? Let's funking go!!!

This is Lemmy now, you can swear if its not targeted
- Not targeted? Can't I randomly just tell you to go F yourself and it'd be fine?

I am here because of boost

Never knew pre-registration for apps was a thing. Signed up for this one, looking forward to giving it a go

it's a thing mostly used for games but games and other apps are fundamentally identical

Preregistered.

That's also not a FOSS app, is it

Not a FOSS app.

Excellent, liked it in reddit, should be good here, can't wait!!!

Wait what, I thought he wasn't doing it, saying he was going to do smaller apps. I guess this is what he meant by "smaller apps"? xD

Yeah, he straight up said he wasn't going to do a Lemmy app, I'm confused.

I'm a total noob so using lemmy was a real challenge to get started, but I downloaded wefwef today and it's basically just like Reddit, very easy to use and feels very comfortable.

Sync for Lemmy is also happening!

I've been waiting for it to come out and it just got pushed to my phone today. This is my first comment on Lemmy! Woo! So far it's feeling pretty seamless.

It's the reason I finally decided to create a Lemmy account. Been a Boost user for many years.

Let's go.

You beauty!

What is Boost?

Boost For Reddit is one of the third party apps being forced to shutdown.
The dev is rebuilding it as Boost For Lemmy, keeping the same familiar interface so many have gotten used to.
- And loved. Simple clean UI.

Here's the link

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy

We've arrived

I was so happy when I found this out. I hope Lemmy gets the support.

For some reason, Boost for Reddit is still working too 😅

apparently it's because Reddit couldn't push out their API update on time. It's going into effect "... the coming weeks"

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Boost is my #1 app for Reddit. Such a beautiful and loved all the features in it.

Awesome, used to use the reddit version and really liked it, switched from the official app and never looked back. Excited to try it out when it releases (also this is my first comment on lemmy, been lurking for a week or so but I think it's time I start interacting)

Boost is my favourite, so looking forward to getting this!

This will actually make lemmy usable on mobile for me! I've been using boost for years, and I really can't wait.

LET'S GO!!

written from Boost for Lemmy

Awesome! I can't wait!

This is great. Lemmy needs more 3P apps, as most people don't like using websites directly.

Sync for Lemmy is coming too and that's how I heard of Lemmy! Excited to be on a fresh internet community, feels nostalgic in a way even though it's brand new

FOSS?

Are there any Foss lemmy app yet?
Boost for Reddit wasn't, so I would expect the same here.
Got to support the dev of somehow. I'd happily pay for it again.

I do get the “distributed” nature of networks and the underlying philosophy, but only if there’s a common interface where lemmy/mastodon or other similar network created accounts can be used seamlessly in addition to the current behavior.

I think that's what KBin is trying to address.
- Thanks for the link! A content aggregator is not addressing the actual problem statement. Especially not useful for now when they don’t serve up-to-date content: https://postimg.cc/218LVQdF
  Just noticed “tooot” on Apple App Store… I’ll pass on that.
  Edit: Things are shaky with kbin read author’s announcement: https://apollo.town/post/34644

Great news! I loved boost for reddit.

I still can't believe spez did this. And continues to do this. What a prick

Actually if this causes decentralized social media to get more popular we should be thankful lol
- Maybe, But it was nice to have a platform with all kinds of people and all kinds of topics in 1 place. I will miss that aspect of reddit

I was a RIF user and would like to see something similar over here. RIF feed is over. Rip.

On connect. Once I changed my settings it's very comparable to the RIF setup I had.

This is good news. Boost was my favorite until I switched to infinity.

I tried infinity for a while, but everything on it was so huge, I hated it.
- Then make it smaller in the settings

If the app contain adds how good can be?? 😝

Boost for reddit is open source, I assume the lemmy version will also be open source. Also I think it's like $2 to get rid of ads forever.
IMHO open source developers should be paid for their work, if it must be ads then so be it.
- Well if its opensource anyone can easly get ride of the adds. I agree with you that developers schould be paid but there is many ways to be paid we all fight for privacy and against adds on the internet using adblocks for example i personaly always pay for developers fairemail and typewise to rename few but i dont like to be forced to pay and in between my phone are establishing connections to the adds servers exposing ip addresse connection times and so on adds are not only adds there is a lot of metadata that can be extracted from adds. And finally the purpose of developing opensourse apps is to serve the community with more friendly apps than the big companies offers to us. But... its just me saying that....

Hell yeah! It's my favorite reddit app by far.

That's great. I've been using boost for years, can't wait to have them for lemmy!

Contains ads • In-app purchases

Boost for Reddit was a one off payment to remove all ads and from memory was only a small amount
I'll be more than happy to pay a small fee for the developers work

Is this real??? He said he wasn't going to do this 🤔

He said he would not be doing Boost for Lemmy, and that he would focus on smaller apps:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/14ehiqs/comment/jow1le5

And he only registered the Lemmy community to prevent impersonation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/14ehiqs/comment/jouvuok

I wonder if he put this on the store as a placeholder to also prevent impersonation?

EDIT: Damn, just saw the screenshots. Either this is a very elaborate placeholder, or it's really happening!

Ah, yes, this is the one.

Just registered for it. While "rifisfun golden platinum" was my favorite reddit app for my phone, Boost is definitely my favorite when using my Android tablet.

"Contains ads" no thank you

If it's anything like Boost for Reddit was, it's unnoticeable. Every 20 or so posts you'll see an ad and just scroll past, no animations or sound. I think I recall seeing a bottom banner? Any other Boost users confirm? I really just ignored it so I can't recall.
My point is, ads were non-obstructive

Love it, Boost was my favorite reddit app