Alt: proprietary software devs trying to live off their work as their primary income source while still allowing people to use their product for free
Get out of here with a level-headed response. We came to rabble.
Rabble rabble! Something something evil! Rabble!
I swear, lemmy users have proven to be so entitled. Just don’t buy it.
If it spies on me, if it shows me ads, then it’s not free.
Yeah, I think a lot of the people who are against are the ones who don’t like the ad-removal model, because you are paying to remove ads on an app that uses a platform whose foundation is built against ads and tracking. The subscription model or one-time payment for life is fair IMO; people are free to support the dev (and please support the lemmy devs and instance admins too!). It’s the ads (and tracking that come with it) that’s kinda weird.
Thinking one step further one could implement a revenue share from ads or subscriptions or third party apps, that supports the instance you are registered to on a voluntary basis (we don’t want to turn this into Reddit after all).
This way the developer and the server instance owners could sustain their service, a hopefully symbiotic relationship.
But I’m just throwing ideas in the room, doesn’t mean they’re good in the long run.
The irony of a Marxist-Leninist instance devaluing someone’s labor is just chef’s kiss
It’s kinda sad honestly. It really shows that people misplace their understanding of who the class war is against
My God this is the whiniest post I’ve seen on the topic yet.
Sync is the best lemmy app I’ve used.
ikr? appreciate that they came to lemmy and gave us a polished experience on android
Holy shit. I might need to take a week off Lemmy or something. Y’all need to learn more about how software dev works. Insane response.
Most people who make FOSS full time that people interact with (Linux, Python, Git, Node.js etc) work at large tech companies where their work is being subsidized.
Solo devs don’t have that luxury, their income is directly tied to their product. They don’t have the same privileges.
It baffles me how much people get shit twisted again and again.
Software that will one day stop being supported because people will only use FOSS apps. They won’t contribute in terms of feedback (that helps improve User Experience and as a result improve the use of that app) or in terms of donation.
They will only use it and roam around with an air of superiority about using FOSS over proprietary.
This is why FOSS has issues. Gatekeepers who won’t do shit to contribute, but only make fun of and call out people who actually do some shit.
stop crying
Trash smugposting bro
“i want free shit waaa waaa” is all i see in these self righteous posts
as someone who regularily donates to the FOSS projects that I use, I can tell you it is not about the money. It’s about the freedom that FOSD brings
Have you ever looked at linux kernel CLs? Many of the more substantial ones come from someone @intel.com, @microsoft.com, @google.com, etc.
You clearly haven’t looked at the options and feature set of sync. It would be the muscular bodybuilder in this analogy.
Meh
Holy ratio batman
