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Boost for Lemmy is happening!
(lemmy.world)
We've arrived
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.
LET'S GO!!
written from Boost for Lemmy
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.
It's the reason I finally decided to create a Lemmy account. Been a Boost user for many years.
Sync for Lemmy is also happening!
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.
Excellent, liked it in reddit, should be good here, can't wait!!!
That's also not a FOSS app, is it
Not a FOSS app.
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!
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.
"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
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
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Hell yeah! It's my favorite reddit app by far.
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.
That's great. I've been using boost for years, can't wait to have them for lemmy!
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....
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.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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