Have been using the Reddit app daily for years after paying a couple of quid to remove ads whenever I did that. Felt like a steal then and expensive now so, on balance, Iâm comfortable having paid the ad randsome. I feel better knowing it all goes to the developer for his personal efforts.
Comment on As an OG Reddit Sync user of over 10 years, all this arguing really brings a tear to my eye. đĽ˛
y2cwr2005@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
As a software engineer I find it miraculous the amount of people that whine about somebody wanting to get paid for putting weeks, months, and years of their life into a product 100s of thousands of people CHOOSE to use.
Serpent@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
JohnnyDanger@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
I think itâs time to create a lemmy version of r/subredditdrama!!!
V4uban@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
regular_human@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
And itâs a very high quality app, to boot. Iâve been a mobile software engineer for more than a decade and this level of polish doesnât just happen by accident
fidodo@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Same. Iâm very grateful for the FOSS options, theyâre like a public option. They create a baseline that paid apps have to surpass, but thereâs nothing wrong with devs getting paid for their work and that payment shouldnât have to be at the whims of donations. I view it as more choice and more choice is good. This is a small dev on an open platform that canât lock out FOSS options. Itâs not a mega corp building a monopoly. Sync is not hurting anyone by being a paid option.
urkindagood@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Itâs not a mega corp building a monopoly. Sync is not hurting anyone by being a paid option.
Wouldnât they see this as a dev trying to make some fortune over non-profit service?
Not sure though if the dev already automatically donates a portion of his sells to lemmy.
sfgifz@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Wouldnât they see this as a dev trying to make some fortune over non-profit service?
On the other hand, Iâd like to see how the donations to non-profits are being utilized. At least with for-profit we know whatâs what.
codemaster@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Paying is fine, itâs the SHIT TON OF THIRD PARTY TRACKERS they put in the app that worry me
Rossel@sh.itjust.works â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
They get completely disabled if you pay, thatâs the point. I havenât got a single tracking ping on my PiHole, I payed for adfree.
codemaster@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
My trust was already broken. These lemmy instances come free of charge, free of ads and free of trackers, and this pig of a dev comes around and pulls out an Ă la spez shenanigan and everyone praises him. He should be keelhauled. And the lemmy servers should block apps that insert ads unless they share profits. Iâd be happy to pay for features that add to lemmy, not for features that were taken away. Fuck sync for lemmy
victron@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Yeah, how come some nefarious people charge for a calendar app, if days are free!!?oneTurd D:<.
/S
Madison420@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
If they demand payment for third party dev they wouldnât be free open source anymore, your argument is asinine. If you donât want to use a paid app then donât, stop acting like someone else doing it is in some way hurting you personally.
Spliffman1@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
And âkeelhauledâ, really? You are advocating violence and criticising somebody for doing an app that people can choose to get or not. Itâs hard, no impossible, to take you seriously
Spliffman1@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Your irrationally emotional and crazed sounding response will actually encourage more people to use Sync, thanks bro
unscholarly_source@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
How do I give more money than I already have to this pig of a dev who made the Lemmy experience so great to me and countless others such that it is now in the top 10 social apps on the Play store?
Rossel@sh.itjust.works â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
lmao
angelorohit@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm confused. Are you suggesting a better way to monetize non-paying users or are you saying that the dev should make the app free for everyone to use without ads?
wildcardology@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Wait⌠you pay for sync not to spy on you?
I hope boost doesnât go the same way.
victron@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Sync is no spying no shit, google ads spy as much as they do in any other site or app you use
uSirPatrick@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Dawg, I have Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and a phone OS owned by Google⌠If sync spying on me is the worst part then Iâm doing pretty good.
I pay 2 bucks a month to show the dev I appreciate his hard work.
Rossel@sh.itjust.works â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Not Sync, itâs AdMob and Google.
bluejay@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
I paid for Sync to toss some money to a dev responsible for the #1 used app on any of my phones for the last 10 years. I paid a criminally low amount back then for how much I used the app.
It happened to also come with ad removal, but I block those and trackers on my network anyway.
okiokbar@lemm.ee â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Let me get this right - youâre worried about tracking it use an Android phone?
codemaster@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm running a custom ROM. Go back to your ecoshitstem apple fanboy
BrooklynRage@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
The way i look at is if you give me a good app(sync) with good functionality and a nice ui I donât mind seeing adâs or throwing some money the devs way.
My big issue with the reddit app was there was no equivalent exchange going on i had a shitty app with awful ui that was buggy slow showed me adds and tracked my data I didnât get anything from that so I had to stop.
stillwater@lemm.ee â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
So many FOSS evangelists sound more like âWhat do you mean making a website costs more than $20?â types than they realize.