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.
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.
This is awesome!
Android users desperately need a better app for browsing Lemmy than Jerboa. Boost and Sync may just be that app.
Liftoff is the best one so far IMO.
It’s not as good as my old reddit app, but I’m liking Jerboa
Or Liftoff.
Liftoff is really good imo
I think most, if not all the major 3rd party app devs are working on something for Lemmy now. Reddit has not only devalued themselves, but made the Fediverse 100% more accessable. I’m a Boost user so this is awesome news. There are so many Lemmy apps in the pipeline. I’ve tried Connect Jeroba and Thunder. At this point they’re all newish, and pretty much the same. Hopefully all this app competition will lead to new innovation. Lemmy users are the winners here. We’re witnessing the dawn of the Lemmy app wars.
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
Iirc he said he wasn’t going to work on a lemmy client earlier. Glad he changed his mind.
FOSS?
Are there any Foss lemmy app yet?
Got to support the dev of somehow. I’d happily pay for it again.
Boost for Reddit wasn’t, so I would expect the same here.
Where Apollo for Lemmy :(
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.
Sync literally went off the play store about an hour ago :(
Edit: Looks like Sync for Lemmy is happening! https://syncapps.io/
Thank you for this great news!
Three* Don’t forget Slide.
Great news, Slide is my favorite FOSS client from F-Droid
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.
Really missing Relay :(
I’m not missing Relay’s trackers in the paid app.
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 believe you have to supply lubricant.
To keep things friendly and all.
I know, but I find it more fun this way
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.
I fucking knew it, in one of the last updates in the menu it went from “find subreddit” to “find community”
Fantastic news. This’ll really scratch the itch.
lol the downvoted post in one of the screenshots, the dev singled out @zac for absolutely no reason and I love it
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”
