Hey OP why don’t you start by sharing your donation receipts to Lemmy?
It’s more like one dev made the best user experience on lemmy, so people give him money. At least that’s the case for me.
We asked him to make sync for lemmy over in r/syncforreddit.
Same. Dedicated sync for reddit user, now that sync for reddit is dead, I’ll follow the sync dev and support him with my Dollars
Oh no my $20 for a lifetime purchase of removing ads from an app I’ve enjoyed using for like a decade. 🥱
Sir that’s not your $20, that’s ops money to decide what you do with it
I think the point of the post is ain’t nobody donating $20 to the Lemmy platform or host or other apps
A new platform like Lemmy needs to establish trust and reliability for a certain time period before it can expect people to give back something. Something that the Sync developer has established already for a decade now.
Assuming that Lemmy continues to flourish well, I will be perfectly happy to donate to Lemmy, in fact I’m quite sure that in the long run I’ll donate a lot more to Lemmy than the one time purchase cost of Sync.
My instance shut down donos because they were bringing in way more than they needed and are sitting on years of server costs at current usage. I was donating when they were open, though.
This meme implies that Sync is taking all the donations though. The people donating to Sync didn’t stop donating to Lemmy to do so
Yea this is the thing I keep saying. Who cares about if you’re paying $20 for an app if that’s what you want to do. Just remember to help out the instances who are running things to make that app work. I think a lot of people realize this and that’s great, but I’m sure some people also don’t. So, instead of circlejerking about Sync being $20, it would have been better for make one or two posts days ago with that reminder and leave it be. Instead, we see the circlejerk continuing days later.
I agree. Although I was surprised that my insurance rejected all forms of donation. It’s pretty small, though.
this is dumb, sync is free
It’s literally not Free.
Ad-supported software is not free.
It literally is. All premium options are a choice.
Ad removal lifetime is $20, Ultra (which brings extra features) is subscription based and a little more expensive.
wasnt talking about price but considering there are ADS in it that are not normally on lemmy even the price doesnt hold up
free is considered to mean libre not gratis here
sync is proprietary
you have ads on lemmy bud, nobody else does
I love when my feed is 50% sync fanboys trying to justify their shitware app to themselves
Sync isn’t even good. I hate how you have to tap on “exactly” the right spot on a post to see the comments. Drives me insane.
In the meantime I’ve been alternating between Infinity and Voyager (the APK version). Neither are perfect but at least navigation isn’t as finicky. I miss Relay.
Willing to bet the lemmy platform is more likely to get support from the type of person that would also pay for an app like sync than it is to get money from people that like to grandstand like OP.
I’ve donated to Lemmy, Beehaw, and Mastodon and came here because Reddit killed Sync. Lemmy is full of gatekeepers and it’s bringing the platform down. Half the posts are whining about reddit and the other half are whining because someone doesn’t adhere to the perfect open source ethos and shun anything not completely free. It’s getting tiring. No wonder Lemmy’s active user count is decreasing.
I’m thinking the sync app will entice enough people with… differing views that the in-place gatekeeping will lose its bite.
I appreciate the FOSS ecosystem, but the people around here seem to think that you should never be able to sustain a living from writing software. Like I should just go back to construction and only write code on the side.
That attitude can kiss my ass.
Don’t forget all the frothing at the mouth to talk up how wonderful communism is.
true. also dev taking advantage of apollo and other popular apps (boost, bacon reader…) not online yet…well, to my knowledge…
“Taking advantage” you meant the developers have to inform each other and sync up on one release?
just an assumption ( also u guys need to be open for some critique, facking hell! ) but also why his pricing is way more than he used to charge for sync for reddit ? said he would work on the app ‘full time’: what does that even mean ? would he quit his day job for the app ? would such an app require full time maintenance ? also pricing more than he used to do without sparing any thought for the instance admins kinda fishy: i know that lemmy code is beyond his reach but placing ads on feed is like taking instance owners for fools and shidding on them, at least while pricing leave some room for people so they can donate to instances until something serious is done about it…and please grow some brain cells before responding to this:and no, devs dont need to sync up app release.
go malaysia
I do donate tho
No… no sync users donate. They used ALL THEIR MONEYZ to buy the app.
/s just to be sure
no, I donate my money to the 3rd party apps that are free
Why would people do this? We want the hughest amount of users we can, and for most people to believe in FOSS or even copyleft philosophy, but this just pushes people away. Just use whatever app you like best and maybe donate to incentivize the app you believe in. But to just relenlessly mock non-FOSS apps only hurts the community and doesn’t foster growth.
I prefer donating money to my Lemmy instance. it really helps them pay monthly VPS bills.
No, my data is not tha big
I saw an earlier post that showed Lemmy’s recent rapid growth followed by a plateau and then slight decline. My feeling is that there is a very LOUD minority of Lemmy users that are trying to act as self-anointed gatekeepers and they’re bringing the platform down as a direct consequence. It makes the platform look petty and small to new and existing users alike. If the top posts are continually about shaming other users then this platform isn’t going to last. Let’s focus on building communities and having interesting conversations rather than one upping each other.
They spent a month shitting on reddit now there’s something new to shit on
Lol yeah right
agreed and it’s slowly pushing me away from using lemmy
Nailed it. Some users are intent on making this reddit 2.0 with all the baggage. Ive seen entire subs be spam downvoted because some user had the time and hate.
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When Sync lauched it was all anyone was talking about. I don’t see the memes for and against Sync as people actually upset I just think it is the meta topic of the week. Like when beans were a meme following the “how can I not poop for three days?”
that may or may not be the case, but the reality of the situation is that it makes the whole foss community look a whole lot more off putting
Imo when it comes to topics like that, people tend to be able to just brush it off as a silly internet thing.
A silly internet thing is not necessarily equivalent a toxic community. I’m good with annoying posts, but a lot of people are taking other people’s personal decisions a little too personally. I find that behaviour more annoying than I ever found the bean posts, tbh.
Why would someone spend their free time somewhere that they feel brings bad aspects to their life? Why would someone want to deal with a lot of negativity over (let’s be honest) pretty minor things? Of course some users will get put off by that. It’s why some people left Reddit years ago.
The Poop Warrior shall live on in our memories.
I just wanted to tell you how happy I was to see the Netscape logo as your icon. Brought me back to the old days of the internet.
Thanks, I’m glad it made you happy. I love how it manages to get so much detail despite being so low resolution.
Use Lemmy, y’all!
Nooo not like that!
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I mean isn’t that true for literally every user that doesn’t pay? I’m not sure why we are mad at Sync users when we don’t even have a strong call to action to donate to instances.
We pay.
You assume.
It’s junior level reasoning.
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I just said we pay. You seem to think I’m talking about Sync.
I’m not. Technically, I guess I could be talking about both server and sync.
What I’ve seen on Lemmy is I can say I paid for Sync and donate to the server and someone will need to come along to tell me all of that money should go to Lemmy.
That’s too either/or. And it’s making Lemmy look… incapable of nuanced thought. Or entitled.
It’s not everyone, but it’s common enough it looks really odd.
You think Sync users don’t also donate? I paid for sync and donated to Lemmy’s development. Considering donating to my 2 main instances as well.
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Maybe Lemmy instances should bill third party apps for API calls, hmmm?
“use my instance please”
“No not like that!”
Holy fuck this is what we left Reddit to avoid…
Lemmy had a garbage web UI. And the other apps I have used are not nearly as smooth as sync.
How much has liftoff, jeroba, connect, etc paid?
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Ok so they’ve paid just as much is what you’re saying
Jeroba is the official app…
Voyager for the win
