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.
Syncforlemmy has 12.8k subscribers.
Loads of them were poised ready to strike once the beta launched.
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.
It’s possible that people were idling their accounts while waiting for Sync to come out, and are using the platform more now that it has.
I was lurking via connect without an account till sync came out personally
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.
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.
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!
