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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    1 year ago

    I’m not seeing many ads tbh. However, I’m damn sure that it’ll be ad-filled after sometime, specially since they are charging so much for the ad-free.

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      1 year ago

      Depends on if their business model works. If enough people are paying for premium and using the free version of the app to pay for development, there is no reason for them to increase the amount of ads. In fact, if they do show too many ads, it will likely push a lot of users to alternate apps.

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      1 year ago

      The ads weren’t terrible on the free Reddit version, they’re just inline ads between posts.

      There may have been a banner on some galleries but I’m not sure if that’s carried over also.

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      1 year ago

      I mean it’s just a port of the Reddit version that was made by the same dev and had been around for over a decade (with constant updates and improvements), I don’t think enshittification is a given.

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        I don’t think it’s a given and the dev has a proven track record.

        …buuuuuutttt they did move to a much smaller userbase so I wonder how many ads he will need for sustainability.

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        Well, compared to Reddit getting filled with “ad looking like real post”, and “ad written as a comment”, and “mass downvote everyone except the ad”… it’s really hard to stoop that low.

        What is likely to keep Sync in check, are the alternative apps. Reddit got enshittified because it became the single point of failure.