I’ve been a long time Sync user and paid for everything he asked when it was Reddit. I’m $5 a month for my instance - startrek.website.
Haven’t yet kicked in for Lemmy Sync. I feel good about sending some cash to the dev, but don’t love subscriptions and the lifetime payment of $100 is a little too rich for me.
Lifetime $20 for ad free
Don’t think you really need ultra, do you?
To be fair, Sync for Lemmy is very good and I use it :)
Do you people just hate anyone who receives money?
Yes.
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.”
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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.
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“Communism is when the government does stuff.” -The wandering spirit of the head of a very real University
It’s what mainlaind Taiwan started with.
I’m gonna need some real sources for this… And maybe even a definition.
My initial impression of this instance is that Lemmy.ml is a short step away from Lemmygrad.
Crabs in a barrel
*bucket
snatches at one of your aft claws get back down here you hothead!
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.
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.
But you are the one focusing on supporting one single app?
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.
Would you have ever posted something like this is sync didn’t come out? Why didn’t you post something like this before sync came out?
I’m assuming that it’s because Sync is the first monitized app
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
WP engine
That developer guy must have gotten very rich if we all 20 Lemmy Sync users bought his app.
I wonder what’s the percentage of Sync users vs the rest, seeing how passionate some are about Lemmy, it probably means they are inundating Lemmy developers with donations and just want us to do the same.
Google Play reports 10k+ downloads, probably only a fraction have paid anything
but, but… the UX!
I feel like this is legitimately more true than a lot of people think. Say what you want about the average end user, but UX is a HUGE driver with regard to adoption and user uptake. You can have the best of everything else in your application, but if the UX sucks, folks just aren’t going to use it
it’s the problem with most FOSS app imo. people would like them more if the overall UX was better. most proprietary apps today have shit UX because of monetisation and all the confirm pop ups for data selling, but anyone will still choose proprietary over Foss because of the abysmal UX Foss has
I used Sync Pro for Reddit (RIP) and loved it, that being said, reddit was full of ads.
Lemmy is not by design, therefore I am sticking with Connect. (Let me know if there is something better, that isn’t Sync!)
IMO, Voyager.
Obviously my opinion, but infinity for lemmy has worked really great for me so far on Android!
Hey OP why don’t you start by sharing your donation receipts to Lemmy?
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
Gay
The meme is indirectly insulting anyone using sync. It’s not being kind. Why be kind back?
Honestly, I feel like it’s mostly targeted at LJDawson, not the users.
It’s even more shitty to target him, imo.
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.
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
Wait, you have to pay for Sync?
No. But you have to pay for ad-free. The ultra subscription service is more expensive than it was under reddit Sync. I’m hoping the prices will go down as the app gets more popular. I’m guessing the dev is trying to make up for the lost revenue from shutting down the reddit app.
Ah, OK. I’m perfectly happy with Connect. Was just curious.
Yes I owned sync pro but bought it so long ago I didn’t remember paying so much, thanks for confirming it’s really more expensive under lemmy.
I use sync and love it. I used sync for reddit and paid the pro and the ultra subscription. I don’t have a problem with the app. I was just clarifying what the payment options were for. I don’t know how expensive it is to run an app or the server for the ultra features.
I downloaded Sync two days ago and I still haven’t seen an ad. I’m not sure where they are.
There is a one time payment of about $20 (price may vary per region) that will stop ads and trackers will be turned off.
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Yea I have no beef with the dev charging. People need money
Having to accept that horrible Privacy Policy though, even if I do pay. No thanks
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You can Patreon a monthly contribution to the developer of Lemmy, along with another contribution to the instance you usually use to help pay server costs. After that maybe also donate to the app you prefer to use (if not using Jerboa from the Lemmy developer, Dessalines).
No one is more hated than he who speaks truth
what truth?
That the entire ecosystem is dependent on donations. If this new social media thing is going to work out, we need to divide our donations to all actors involved: developers, instance admins, and thirdparty app developers. It’s easy to forget the people behind it
They have no idea what they are down voting. They do it just because it is against sync. You are just stating we should support foss devs. They literally are just bunch of fucking idiots that probably came here just by following others. It would be awesome if they could just fuck off from fediverse and go lurk in reddit.
Yup, this entire thread is confounding to me
Aaand you can only donate to one project? So only donating to a frontend developer it would harm the developers of the plattform and providers?
That’s my thought at least. Donating to all actors involved would be best, but it’s easy to give the frontend developer all the love, because the work that’s being done behind is less tangible and harder to really see.
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
my favorite one is and its a fork which would never be able to happen with any proprietary app
sorry, what does this mean ?
I am going to assume you want to know what a fork is. if not, ignore me.
If the sourcecode of a software is publicly available, someone can take that sourcecode and develop it into a different direction than the original software. In this case, a third-partt reddit app called Infinity is being developed into a Lemmy app by someone who is not the original dev.
thanks, it makes sense now.
It means that, because the reddit version was open source, some completely different Dev was able to take it and rework it to work with lemmy
Christ, let me use my favorite app in peace instead of going “tsk tsk” and whinging about it when no one’s stopping you from using other apps.
Like this is somehow the fault of sync’s dev. Go ahead folks, the donate to lemmy button is at the top of the page, go ahead and click on it if your morals are so true.
Honestly. This isn’t some centralized platform. Donating at least some of the profits to the people making the app possible seems fitting. While I don’t agree with the API pricing of Reddit, I think it’s fitting that it should cost something at least, if not only to cover wage for the people working on the API
Go ahead
Lead the way please
I have no idea what botton he is speaking off 🤷
This whining is so pathetic.
