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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!
There's no reason to even have a placeholder in the Play Store, since app names don't have to be unique (the unique part is the package, which in Java uses a reversed domain format to prevent collisions -- com.rubenmayayo.lemmy in this case).
But if someone else creates a fake "Boost for lemmy", then it'll hurt the official app if it ever comes out.
Doesn't take that much work to implement the Lemmy API enough to get it fetching a few posts for a screenshot, but doing it for everything Boost can do will take quite a bit of effort which is exactly why he started the preregistration - if enough people show interest, it's worth doing.
🤞
Looks like he changed his mind: https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=6440232003459573263&hl=en_US&gl=US
The app description was updated 2 days ago.
It's happening, he recently announced it here
https://www.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/14m7ow1/boost_will_stop_working_after_july_1st_thank_you/