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I think now is a great time to remind everyone, like sync's developer, Lemmy's developers need to be paid too! The amount of time all the devs put into making lemmy exist, in my opinion, should be worth some of your money. If you can afford it, donating to the people who develop lemmy and/or the people keeping your home instance up will accelerate the incredible growth of lemmy!

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[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good bloody grief! How did a reminder to support Lemmy devs and hosts get hijacked by Sync fans? Sync is a completely different topic.

[–] Feugnis@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, maybe shouldn't have mentioned sync in my post. I was just doing as a joke though.

[–] Zeroxxx@lemmy.my.id -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sync users are annoyed getting blasted with FOSS this and that. Other client users do not need to ridicule Sync fans. Or behave like houlier than thou and teach Sync users how to spend rheir money.

[–] ram@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

They are free to stay closed-source proprietary but prople have the right to voice their opinions.

That is not holier than thou.

[–] rglullis@communick.news -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

and/or the people keeping your home instance.

And if you want to do both: my instance is a commercial one, part of the suite of services that provided by Communick. I'm pledging to give 20% of any eventual profits to the teams of the projects that I host there.

The plans are really cheap, and they get even cheaper if you purchase a "group package".

With all the talk about the big instances not managing to keep up with the influx of users, I'd ask you to consider joining or spreading the word about my work and what I am proposing as alternative model for a sustainable growth of the Fediverse.

[–] Icedrous@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They can get paid, but $20 for lifetime ad removal, and $130+ sync ultra whatever it's called?

That's not beer money like another commenter said, that's fraud and stealing money for barely anything to give for it.

[–] Countmacula@artemis.camp 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can’t be serious lol

You know you don’t have to use it right?

He made on of the best Reddit apps ever. Supported his app for like 10 years.

20 is nothing.

[–] Icedrous@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah $20 is fine albeit a bit too much for ad removal but fine

What I really have gripes with is the $130+ ultra thing. I saw that and noped the fuck outta that app and uninstalled it as quickly as I installed it.

It also doesn't help that when I bought sync pro it was equivalent to or less than $10 and now he wants $20 for a basic ad removal? He's greedy.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude, you don't have to buy ultra. It's for people who want bonus features and support the dev.

This is like refusing to buy a Volkswagen because they also make Lamborghinis

[–] Icedrous@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

you don't have to buy ultra

Then don't put it in the app. Simple as that.

It's 2023, we're really debating over pricing in a FOSS Android app that just so happens to host a website/forum that just got popular only because people don't like the other main big internet forum?

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What? Just because you don't want to pay doesn't mean no one else does.

Also sync isn't FOSS

[–] Icedrous@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

Literally nobody would pay over $100 for an app.

And no but the service is.

[–] rglullis@communick.news -1 points 1 year ago

Help me here... What is the story about sync's pricing?

[–] CapnAssHolo@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago

Y'all just seething bc others are enjoying things. This is just cringe. This is not a zero sum game. You can donate to lemmy devs/instance devs/fav. app devs and whatever else you like too.

And let's not pretend this is new. You could see a lot of memmy users being excited about their app too. I don't know what the hell they are talking about. But I'm glad they have an app they like that much.

Just. Let. People. Enjoy. Things.