Oh no my $20 for a lifetime purchase of removing ads from an app I’ve enjoyed using for like a decade. 🥱
I think the point of the post is ain’t nobody donating $20 to the Lemmy platform or host or other apps
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.
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.
You’re awesome
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.
I agree. As an immigrant from reddit, I have noticed a lot of server instability. It doesn’t give me a warm fuzzy feeling about the future of Lemmy.
I’m signed up the patreon for mine, they’re gonna get more than $20 over time
My instance doesn’t take donations at the moment. I’ll definitely contribute once there’s something.
Sir that’s not your $20, that’s ops money to decide what you do with it
Just like the lifetime purchase I made for Sync for Reddit, right?
I mean, take that up with Reddit. Hopefully, lemmy doesn’t somehow stop people from using apps.
Besides I’m happy to pay for the development costs of him porting the entire thing to use lemmy instead super fast, whilst being really responsive to any issues and questions. Of the 5 apps on my phone, sync feels the best to me so I’m cool supporting it.
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.
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?”
The Poop Warrior shall live on in our memories.
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.
agreed and it’s slowly pushing me away from using lemmy
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It’s me. I’m the loud minority. Redditors go home!
Lol yeah right
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? 😆
Be kind
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”. 🤡
this is dumb, sync is free
It’s literally not Free.
Then how am I using it for free right now ?
you have ads on your lemmy bud, nobody else does
Right, so it’s free. With ads. Ads that currently dont work, and even if they did, i still haven’t paid for sync, so its free for me.
Also, why do you care if people are using sync or paying for it. How does that affect you personally?
Right, so it’s free. With ads.
yeah its not free XD you have to look at ads which you DONT have to do with regular lemmy.
Also, why do you care if people are using sync or paying for it. How does that affect you personally?
it doesnt, why do you ask? i was just correcting the user saying its “free” which is not under any pov. not in price because of ads, not in freedom because it sucks.
you have to look at ads
Your mind is gonna be blown when you learn that you can block ads system-wide on android…
Doesn’t change jack shit
TIL that looking at ads, even without money leaving my bank account, isn’t free. These marketing people are wizards /s
I think it’s very valid to say a service isn’t free if it makes you the product by forcibly showing you ads. This is especially true when your data is being collected and shared with advertisers.
Time is more valuable than money, and I don’t like spending time on ads. That’s just my two cents, though.
yep they even convince people to defend them and their interests for free!
I have an adblocker so no, I don’t.
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
This is the way. Sync for life, also Dev said he’s thinking about a 1 time payment option.
It’s already done, there’s an ad free and a ultra lifetime option
We asked him to make sync for lemmy over in r/syncforreddit.
This. I tried lemmy. Didn’t use it until sync came out. Now that lemmy is looking for engineers I’ll donate some money.
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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.
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.
That’s awesome. :)
It’s just a meme because when Sync launched it was all over everyone’s feeds. I don’t think as many folks are as angry about it as it seems but it’s definitely a good topic for meta memes.
Im just happy for the influx of posts commenta and votes since sync launched.
Before it was a good day if a post got 50 upvotes Now its common to see 200+ and theres a ton more comments.
Its improved the experience in my opinion.
Use Lemmy, y’all!
Nooo not like that!
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.
Hey OP why don’t you start by sharing your donation receipts to Lemmy?
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.
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.
Who let spez make a Lemmy account?
And this kind of idiocy is why I’m glad there’s a user block
This is probably the 10000th post on sync
You missed a 0
Damn. This comment section…
Reddit left a lot of y’all really insecure and easily triggered. Anyone would think OP threatened your mother’s life or something.
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