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I've used Lemmy more in the past 12 hours than I have in the past month since signing up. All because of Sync.

Lemmy Finally feels usable! Thank you LJDawson

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  • In the couple months since I've been a Redditfugee, I had decided that Liftoff was the way to go. It still is, using it for this very post. Sync is down right now (traffic?), but so far it's houses ahead of any of the other apps for Lemmy I use like Thunder and Connect and yeah, Liftoff. I use the stacked(?) view so I don't see any ads

    • Sync isn't down, Lemmy.world is receiving heavier than normal traffic, because of sync. If you switch to a different instance, you don't get the warning popup.

      Sync for Reddit users are now getting damn near the same exact experience here, that they were on reddit. Same UI we've been used to for years, and Lemmy content is easier to navigate through, and it opens you up to browse the instances version of r/all instead of just what you're subscribed to.

      The search is nice too, because the couple things I looked for as far as 'subs' go, I've found multiples across different instances, each with a different variety of content.

      • App developers probably don't understand what federation means if they're all putting traffic at lemmy.world.

        • That's just the default, and I assume it's mainly to make it easier for new users to start using Lemmy. It lets you change to any other instance during login.

          • Yeah, I've tested the app out. But the problem is that people who don't know any better (which almost none of new people do, me included when I was new) will just use the default. Which is down a lot. This causes two things:

            • forces lemmy.world to upgrade its hardware all the time
            • discourages new users from trying Lemmy because it doesn't work

            Getting a list of some instances (that are not as overcrowded) and assigning one at random by default would be the best way to go about it.

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