I think it’s more of people wanting to stick with the developers and apps that they have used on reddit. Some of which have been using and supporting for almost a decade. It also means more of an endorsement for Lemmy, as some reddit sync users wouldn’t consider Lemmy otherwise. Lastly, a significant number of power users (those that actually post, comment, and otherwise contribute) use third party apps over the official app, meaning that having support for these apps on Lemmy will hopefully bring over quality users and not just a larger quantity users.

That’s my take on it, and I am someone very pro open source.

Not that I am aware of unfortunately.

request that he release it on Fdroid!

https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy

Yeah, he could start with lemmy (reddit) and then branch out to tackle all the other services in the fediverse like peertube (YouTube), mastodon (Twitter), etc. Kinda like how kbin supports magazines (lemmy communities) and microblogging (mastodon) from the same site.

If you can, please give the reddit post some love so hopefully he sees how many of us would help support the endeavor!

Nah, that’s the issue. It only changes the post view for now. Comments are unchanged. Thereis a fix already afaik, it just has to be merged into the codebase. It’s not a big deal, these are just the early times and growing pains

I agree! If you can, please show the post on reddit some love so we can get exposure on it and show the dev how many people want it!

I hope they add that feature also. Lots of features are missing from the app. I can’t edit my community sidebar, appoint mods, cross post, and many more actions from Jerboa yet. Hell, we can’t even change the comment text size yet. I assume it will all come with time.

Use the web browser to log into your instance and do the initial subscription. It should then show in Jerboa (might take a little time)

We are early days. Competition breeds innovation. The best communities will filter to the top

Redreader dev said they were going to build their app to work with lemmy, hacker news, and other sources. Hopefully others follow.

When there were limited options for reddit, devs came and build the first apps. There is opportunity in lemmy now, so I’m sure others will pivot

Jerboa isn’t an instance. It’s just an app. If a community hasn’t been indexed yet, then Jerboa can’t find it in search. You’d need to use the website to do that first. Once added it should then show up in search for others on your instance in Jerboa. The only thing that can block instances is other instances.

Just searched for and subbed to both on my Lemmy.ml instance so it should show up in search for others now

Can I login to another instance with my lemmy.ml account? Or do I need multiple accounts?