Spoke a coherent sentence.

I’d been experiencing a bug where I couldn’t see comments on communities from my local instance. It would show the comment count but not show any comments.

I’d been using sync for the same time, since LJ first released it. It’s an issue because the Lemmy API is changing faster than Reddits, and he’s also charging a heavy subscription fee. I think with that there should be an expectation of support and updates. At the very least, provide communication about what he’s doing and working on.

I’m also a dev, and it’s funny you say that because I hate the idea of NOT doing regular releases! You want to release small changes frequently, get the value out and get fast feedback. You don’t want users to sit on bugs for 6 to 12 months while you wait for a huge big batch release. But I’m a dev who works primarily on backend serverless stuff, we can release as much as we want, every 5 minutes if we wanted to. Obviously phone app development has a lower release cadence as it has to be approved by the official stores and roll out, but the way LJ seems to ghost a project and then do a huge release is kinda weird.

I don’t want to sit on an app that’s buggy and getting zero updates while Lemmy instances keep getting updated, hoping that one day the dev might come back and update it.

The dude just needs to communicate what he’s doing to the community.

Fair enough - that makes sense!

9?! What’s the advantage of having so many? I created a couple of accounts on other instances as backups, but never use them.

I’m convinced there’s some kind of Blaze farm spawning new Blazes.

He’s still alive, he replied to someone recently. Think he’s just busy with life and hasn’t found the time or motivation.

I finally uninstalled it the other day. It’s clear the dev has abandoned it.

Mobile apps that have “died” - Voyager still lives on, stronger.

By died, it means no longer being maintained.

I think you just need to promote it at the right time to the right audience, and suggest the right instances. People who are saying they’re sick of Reddit, especially when Reddit does something to shoot themselves in the foot. I think just trying to force it onto people will have the opposite effect.

@Blaze@feddit.org puts a lot of effort into promoting Lemmy on Reddit, they’ll have some decent input on how to promote it!

There’s also !fedigrow@lemm.ee which is a community around this kind of thing if you’re interested.

Just promote it to users of traditional centralised corporate sites. Promote established but smaller instances and explain why it’s better 😊

https://github.com/laurencedawson/sync-for-lemmy/issues/543

This one seems to be about any community on a local instance.

https://github.com/laurencedawson/sync-for-lemmy/issues/542

This one is the same issue I mentioned where it only applies to communities that you’re not subscribed to. Funnily enough I commented on that issue and the bug reporter said they had the same issue, but the bug reporter from the first link said it’s slightly different for them.

Either way, there’s some funkiness with comments not showing up from a local instance.

That’s on lemmy.world, where you’re on lemmy.zip, so it’s a community that’s not on your own instance. That said, I don’t know if it’s something that affects everyone but I’ve seen others mention it on the sync community and someone had reported a bug report on GitHub for it.

Do you mean any paid app for Lemmy or any mobile app?

I’ve switched over to Voyager from Sync and I agree about the UI. It’s fine but Sync is just prettier and also smoother to use. I miss being able to swipe from the left to bring up the sidebar for communities.

I’ve tried loads of clients and none come close to Sync in terms of UI and performance, but unfortunately it’s buggy (main gripe for me is not being able to see comments on communities from my own instance that I’m not subscribed to), and the app developer seems to have abandoned it.

There is no “they” really - it’s up to us as users to promote it.

I feel like this will be the biggest challenge. Delivering high quality video seamlessly at scale will be incredibly expensive.

Welcome! What have our instances taught you? 🙂

Welcome! Great to see people choosing our instance :) Like Blaze said, feel free to ask any questions, it can be a bit overwheling at first!

This post is currently at the top of r/AskReddit, the following comment is currently at the top:

My honest opinion is I’d like to see the internet become decentralized again and less monetized.

This new hyper-monetized internet sucks so hard and places like X, YouTube, and Reddit are the issue.

Link - there’s already some suggestions of Lemmy, but it would be good to keep adding more!

In the UK, unless you’re self employed, you don’t have to do anything at all.

You might just receive a letter saying HMRC either owes you money or you owe them money.