Comment on As an OG Reddit Sync user of over 10 years, all this arguing really brings a tear to my eye. đĽ˛
havokdj@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠agoIf he is donating, then he should tell people that he is donating. The whole idea of âif you tell people of your goodwill then you undid your goodwillâ is stupid. Yes, you shouldnât do something good with the expectation of a reward, but thatâs different when you are selling a product.
Itâs not even just about goodwill, it is also about longevity of the platform.
However, considering the facts that he is running ads and charging for ad-free access, I doubt he is donating by default unless he specifically mentions it.
Also, Iâm not holding any standard here, itâs just that like, shitpost is for actual shitposts. This isnât a shitpost, itâs just starting another argument. Itâs like the porn spam in /b/, there are other boards for that.
Itâs also not just here, Iâm seeing boards everywhere popping up with this argument. It is getting old.
Madison420@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Why? What business is it to you and youâre not supposed to disclose charitable donation anyhow, itâs not to get credit.
Itâs open source, you could pay a dev today and they could leave today, pay doesnât create production or lemmy wouldnât exist in the first place.
Why? Because you wouldnât?
It is a shit post moreso when crybabyâs go throwing tantrums over jokes, if you donât like it ignore it and move on like a grown adult.
Then go somewhere else dude, youâre complaining about the community at this point not the content.
havokdj@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Yes, itâs not my business, Iâve stated that I donât care about this argument several times. I simply gave my .02. If you are profiting off of a FOSS project, you should atleast feel obligated to donate some of that money to the devs.
Why canât you disclose donations (didnât say anything about charity)? The entire point of charity isnât supposed to âmake you feel goodâ or make you seem better in the eyes of people, it is to support a project or cause at the end of the day, those are just side effects of donating.
Your statement on open source software is not really how it works. Yes, a dev could leave today, A dev. You think Lemmy was made by a single dev? And even then, like you said it is OPEN SOURCE. Somebody will fork it, and they will be the new person that you can support. You should absolutely support your favorite FOSS devs because they essentially work a second job for free. Yes, pay doesnât create production, but it DOES create incentive to keep working on a project, potentially full time if enough come in. You know, like what the sync dev is doing?
If you canât understand this, then I canât understand your logic behind supporting sync.
Lol, whatâs the joke here? Doesnât seem like a joke to me. And youâre right, it IS a SHIT post, but this is a sub for shitposts. There is a difference you know.
And which community exactly? The Sync community or the Lemmy community? All I said is that Iâm fucking tired of seeing this stupid debate brought up everywhere (as I said, EVERYWHERE) by sync fanboys and sync haters. Those people are not the community, itâs LEMMY, not SYNC. There are communities specifically for this, go bitch and moan on those specific communities instead of infecting everything else with this ridiculous debate.
Literally all Iâm saying is that the sync dev is going to be making a pretty decent chunk of change for essentially making a Lemmy front end that works on your phone. I donât understand how you can think that âitâs okay to pay to remove ads and trackingâ to support the dev but not think the same for the Lemmy devs. They literally fall flat on each other, if you believe that the sync dev shouldnât at his own will donate a miniscule amount of money to the project, that logic could be applied to the app itself? Why wouldnât you just use another app? Why would you use an app that includes ads and trackers unless you paid to remove them, over one that does the exact same thing for free?
People are getting way too heated over this. It is an app for fucks sake. If you are seriously this fanatical about a single app, you are terminally online and need to go outside. Even the 3rd party app debacle on reddit was less radical than this. I cannot even begin to understand the reasoning behind moving to Lemmy just to spend all of your time talking about an app, that you would normally use to talk about other things.