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, I’m 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. 🥲
y2cwr2005@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
JohnnyDanger@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think it’s time to create a lemmy version of r/subredditdrama!!!
V4uban@lemmy.world 1 year ago
regular_human@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And it’s a very high quality app, to boot. I’ve been a mobile software engineer for more than a decade and this level of polish doesn’t just happen by accident
fidodo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same. I’m very grateful for the FOSS options, they’re like a public option. They create a baseline that paid apps have to surpass, but there’s nothing wrong with devs getting paid for their work and that payment shouldn’t 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 can’t lock out FOSS options. It’s not a mega corp building a monopoly. Sync is not hurting anyone by being a paid option.
urkindagood@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not a mega corp building a monopoly. Sync is not hurting anyone by being a paid option.
Wouldn’t 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 1 year ago
Wouldn’t they see this as a dev trying to make some fortune over non-profit service?
On the other hand, I’d like to see how the donations to non-profits are being utilized. At least with for-profit we know what’s what.
codemaster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Paying is fine, it’s the SHIT TON OF THIRD PARTY TRACKERS they put in the app that worry me
Rossel@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
They get completely disabled if you pay, that’s the point. I haven’t got a single tracking ping on my PiHole, I payed for adfree.
codemaster@lemmy.world 1 year 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 à 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. I’d be happy to pay for features that add to lemmy, not for features that were taken away. Fuck sync for lemmy
victron@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, how come some nefarious people charge for a calendar app, if days are free!!?oneTurd D:<.
/S
Madison420@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If they demand payment for third party dev they wouldn’t be free open source anymore, your argument is asinine. If you don’t want to use a paid app then don’t, stop acting like someone else doing it is in some way hurting you personally.
Spliffman1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And “keelhauled”, really? You are advocating violence and criticising somebody for doing an app that people can choose to get or not. It’s hard, no impossible, to take you seriously
Spliffman1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Your irrationally emotional and crazed sounding response will actually encourage more people to use Sync, thanks bro
unscholarly_source@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
lmao
angelorohit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m 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 1 year ago
Wait… you pay for sync not to spy on you?
I hope boost doesn’t go the same way.
victron@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Dawg, I have Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and a phone OS owned by Google… If sync spying on me is the worst part then I’m doing pretty good.
I pay 2 bucks a month to show the dev I appreciate his hard work.
Rossel@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Not Sync, it’s AdMob and Google.
bluejay@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year 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 1 year ago
Let me get this right - you’re worried about tracking it use an Android phone?
codemaster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m running a custom ROM. Go back to your ecoshitstem apple fanboy
BrooklynRage@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The way i look at is if you give me a good app(sync) with good functionality and a nice ui I don’t mind seeing ad’s 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 didn’t get anything from that so I had to stop.
stillwater@lemm.ee 1 year ago
So many FOSS evangelists sound more like “What do you mean making a website costs more than $20?” types than they realize.