I just view Ultra to be covering the costs of continued development and server for cloud backup. It was a simple choice for me.

Sync makes Lemmy feel like a better version of Reddit, or an old school version of Reddit. It’s great for Lemmy and old Reddit users.

a very pleasing test image

It’s obvious when you actually see it and say it, and be someone else points out out and then you are like oh yeah…

Looks like it’s built upon Reddit app giving the versioning

Edit: please see replies for why this is a dumb thing to say ⬇️

On the bright side for them, they still have a commercial monopoly. The number of ads might go up while the quality of the content goes down.

I think it’s all had a bigger impact on Lemmy than it has had on Reddit. The lasting impact might be that Reddit now has viable competition for the first time since Digg, which is a good thing.

I still find the look and feel of it a bit outdated, but functionally it’s great.

I’ve heard Joey is still working

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Thunder is likely the closest to sync