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.
Do you people just hate anyone who receives money?
Crabs in a barrel
*bucket
snatches at one of your aft claws get back down here you hothead!
People in general are very interested in the politics of who deserves recognition (in whatever form) over others. Fundamentally it’s about an instinct towards “fairness.”
Yes.
Yes that’s what commies do.
🤡
You just gave away you have no idea what communism is.
nOt TrUe CoMmUnIsM
You would need an example to talk about that.
You smooth brains really stretch far for a meme eh?
Dam, I feel bad for people like you.
It’s what mainlaind Taiwan started with.
I’m gonna need some real sources for this… And maybe even a definition.
Please, enlighten us.
“Communism is when the government does stuff.” -The wandering spirit of the head of a very real University
My initial impression of this instance is that Lemmy.ml is a short step away from Lemmygrad.
No. But focusing on supporting one single app instead of the platform is not sustainable for the platform. This meme is just a reminder to support the platform as well.
Who are you speaking of? How many users are on sync versus all the others?
My opinion is that what matters is how much money each part of the network receives.
For example, instances tend to be transparent about their funding. And we can see that some of them are just months away of being out of cash. Meanwhile, we see people subscribing(!) to a very expensive app that charges $20 to remove ads (and tracking and data collecting) otherwise.
I think is okay to keep people aware of these things. Getting defensive about it is just a waste of energy. For both sides.
But you are the one focusing on supporting one single app?
I haven’t seen a single call to action to donate to Lemmy other than the static sidebar on desktop. Something like that would be far more helpful than complaining about previous Sync users continuing to donate to Sync. Nothing is being taken from Lemmy, Sync already had a big user base and is bringing many of them over here thanks to the app. Let’s call to action to them to donate to instances instead of complaining.
Accurate. I used Sync for Reddit until they were forced out. I then switched to Sync for Lemmy for the familiar interface, the ease of setup, etc. Sync literally brought me to Lemmy.
Since then I looked around and still prefer this app. On a side note: why does the UI for Voyager on Android look like some old version of iOS?
Hate all you want but Sync being popular is a good thing for Lemmy adoption.
I agree with you. It’s not to attack sync users, it’s just to remind them that there’s an entire ecosystem dependent on donations
No, my data is not tha big
Alright your meme worked.
I already bought Sync, but I’m on lemmy every day, and my instance doesn’t accept donations. May as well pitch in a little bit.
Why a antisemitic meme? Do you hate Jews?
Sees greedy businessman bourgeois -> thinks it means Jews. You sure you aren’t the anti-semite here?
But im using sync for free.
Why are people so angry about this?
Well you see, it’s important to aggressively gatekeep anything that people start to use and enjoy.
If you are not paying for Sync you are getting ads. So you are still paying (attention, data, you are the product).
Additionally proprietary software has some long term disadvantages that are not visible at first. This is why one needs to always inform people about it as they do not understand these disadvantages.
The biggest issue is that the owners of the proprietary code can change its course whenever they like it. See for example the Reddit Apollo Dev who would have sold out the community for 10 million dollars:
See his own published audio and the discussion on HN:
https://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-31-end.m4a
The people who are actually angry tend to be FOSS advocates. I think they were assuming Sync would have a FOSS type option for users, and were surprised that wasn’t the case.
The rest of us just think it’s funny.
I’m a sync user, btw
I’m a FOSS advocate, and I have the $20 Sync ad free.
Same. I write FOSS software in my free time and also paid.
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.
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
We asked him to make sync for lemmy over in r/syncforreddit.
Use Lemmy, y’all!
Nooo not like that!
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“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.
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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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…
Maybe Lemmy instances should bill third party apps for API calls, hmmm?
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.
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.
lmao are you for real, if you don’t like it just use one of the other apps or just use it and don’t pay for it all of this complaining about it is just pathetic
I know I’m probably in the minority here but… I’m a desk jockey.
I don’t use Lemmy on a handheld. I didn’t use Reddit that way either. The web interface works well enough for me, or rather whatever lemmy.ca uses is good when set to vaporwave-light. Try the different themes, some are better than others.
The pagination though… it’s a little short for my taste but I prefer it over doomscrolling.
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
Don’t you think the Sync dev might also be supporting the Lemmy devs?
Oh fuck off.
Hey are you db2 from reddit who used to be into vapes?
Yeah among other things
Oh wow good to see you here! I remember you from the early days when we had less than 6k subs there!
It used to be such a fun, vibrant and exciting hobby and community. It so sad to see how regulations basically strangled the life out of it. It’s very nice to see familiar usernames pop up here and there!
It feels like early reddit without the fuckery doesn’t it? 😆
Totally! Not just that, the user base also feels different, sorta how reddit was before it became mainstream
Be kind
The meme is indirectly insulting anyone using sync. It’s not being kind. Why be kind back?
It’s a meme,it’s not insulting anybody…
Memes are often used to poke fun at people and topics and this one is overused.
Honestly, I feel like it’s mostly targeted at LJDawson, not the users.
It’s even more shitty to target him, imo.
Yeah, I’m not going to “be kind” to divisive bullshit, I’m going to call it out. Every time. Someone’s pissing on your shoes and you’re telling the person telling them not to to “be kind”. 🤡
Bro over here malding over a meme
Gay
Leave reddit cause you can’t use your preferred app anymore. Come to Lemmy, and get beat over the head for your choice of preferred app.
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plus it is a subscription model.
There is a non-subscription model that also disables the admob tracking.
I am pro-facts
But not nuances, it feels.
That’s not just a feeling. They professionally cherry picked facts to try to generate outrage. And threw any context out the window along the way.
I have never seen a website so consistently entitled. It changes my sympathetic view of the left into a need to self reflect and maybe ensure those sympathies get solid, unwavering boundaries.
No one is entitled to other people’s stuff. We can credibly argue whether value is flowing to the right places, but that’s not what I’m seeing on lemmy in sync-bash posts.
