I don't care about it being open source.

LJD has proven to be an excellent dev, who also listens to his users. He's built to a lot of trust as a result.

If he sold Sync, then my answer might be different.

Now that Sync for Reddit is being discontinued I'm dropping Reddit.

I saw a good write-up about kbin, so I signed up about a day ago and have been liking what I see - although it's obviously still in its early stages.

I don't know much about Lemmy and Federation, but is it a bit like the Newsgroups of old (Usenet), where you joined a Usenet service and any posts on any service propagated across all servers?

My wallet is ready to buy whatever the highest tier is. Based on my Sync for Reddit experience it will be well worth it!

I don't properly understand how all of this works.

But signing up to kbin on the weekend was just like signing up for anything else online.

And once I did, replying to posts - like this one - was more or less the same as replying on any other discussion forum.

So....I don't get it, what's so hard? Do you really need to understand the technical details underneath to start using this place?

That said, I would like to grasp this whole thing a little better. But I figured the best way to do that is to jump straight in and go from there! :)

Microsoft Fight Simulator 2020

Learn how to fight in photorealistic settings all around the world!

Yeah, I'm wondering if I shouldn't get too comfortable setting up with this account, in case I have to move to a direct Lemmy account.

Whatever Sync works that's where I'll be.

That's going to be Sync for Lemmy??

That would awesome. I was a Sync for Reddit user and it was probably the best app I've ever used from a user experience point of view.

Sync was not only my favourite Reddit app, it was probably my favourite app.

Its UI was so usable that I found myself using the same gestures and taps to navigate through other apps and being disappointed when that didn't work.

It was that good.

Bring it on!

Yeah, that's what they did with me when I went in a couple of weeks ago here in Australia (non-critical car accident). The paramedics hung around and I stayed on their ambulance stretcher until I went into an Emergency bed.

Are you serious? That's pretty funny!

Yes, it does feel a bit like that!

I first experienced the "world wide web" in 1995. I'm not saying it's exactly like that, but in some way kbin reminds me of earlier simpler times on the web. I've only been on here for two days.

Best way I can describe it: really feels like the start of something.

I use kbin on mobile (Galaxy S23 Ultra).

I've used Hermit Premium to create a Lite App (sort of a web app).

It's a good solution for now, feels like I've actually got a kbin app!

If it's female how about just Kay?

Love the framing on this.

I can empathize with this - I did the same thing this morning! :D

I just did that.

Go to Magazines (bottom of page on my phone).

Search for syncforlemmy

Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on subscribe

Done!

Oh, when you search, there is

SyncForLemmy

and also

syncforlemmy

They both exist the first one is the official one.

Oh man, I remember that! Think I had a standalone .exe of that somewhere.

I'm tempted to have a look at this.

I have an iPad pro with the M1 chip. It's super capable in terms of specs and yet I find myself able to do things on my S23 Ultra that I can't with the iPad. Why does my phone feel closer to a laptop replacement than my tablet!?

It's frustrating at times. Simple things like the file system for example really annoy me.

It's like the hardware is really held back by the software. If iPad OS doesn't improve massively soon, I'm selling it and going all Samsung.

Nice, something very relaxing about this picture.