Sad to see almost none of the devs, from
Apollor (ChristianSelig), RIF (u/talklittle), Infinity (u/Hostilenemy),
Boost (rmayayo), BaconReader, to Relay (u/DBrady), etc. are not considering Lemmy at all.

I know these were hobbies but by atleast developing it for some time just to make transition for your audience to Lemmy easier would have gone a long way!

@lemmy @LemmyDev Lemmy will remain a niche platform if not enough people switch to it

  • Ophy@lemmy.nz
    3·
    1 year ago

    Not to sound rude, but did you do any research before naming all of these? Boost developer is developing a Lemmy app, you can find it on the Play store already. Sync developer is also developing a Lemmy app.

    • abcxyz@mastodon.socialOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      @ophy thanks for not being rude about it.

      I did mention Sync. Mastodon has word limits after all so couldnt fit all in 1 post. Here’s my post right after this one- https://mastodon.social/@abcxyz/110632697269529190

      As for Boost, that was announced a few days AFTER my post. Yes I didnt edit it because there was the word limit and I also like to believe my post played some part in making the devs consider ;)

      There is a reason why I used the word “ALMOST”. All my posts are heavily researched :D

      • Ophy@lemmy.nz
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ah, apologies! I’m still not yet in the habit of checking post dates on Lemmy! But wow, it feels like it’s been more than 10 days since all that happened!

        Of the ones that have been announced so far, which app in development are you most excited for?

  • NoTime@lemmy.one
    1·
    1 year ago

    There are some fantastic apps being made right now though. For android I am following development for:

    Connect

    Jerboa

    Liftoff

    Thunder

    Connect is only on Google Play, but the bottom 3 I keep updated using the Obtainium app which grabs the releases from GitHub (gets updates faster then waiting for Google Play).

  • AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    I would say give them a minute, month, year. They all just had a major ongoing project conclude in an unwanted way and they all deserve a break. Then in a few months or years maybe. Also, I don’t know the APIs for either platform but I would guess they are quite different so it might be starting over. As for Lemmy, I’m new to the platform but have been watching it for a while and reddit just gave me the nudge. Sure there will be a bunch of fair weather users that will go back to reddit once things die down, but they where not here before and Lemmy will be fine once they leave. Lemmy is such a breath of fresh air from the toxic nature of reddit and I just hope the Lemmy-for-a-day crowed can behave themselves for the period they are here.