My reply to all the naysayers:
Thanks for making Lemmy feel like home, it wouldnât without you!
The reality is itâs a free world, regardless of what morality you put on things there are going to be things that happen that you donât like. Thatâs life.
Like it or not Lemmy has had explosive growth because of apps like Sync. Because of them being killed off by Reddit. If it werenât for the drama of Reddit doing that, I and millions of other users wouldnât be here right now as weâd still be on Reddit.
Even people who werenât using the 3rd party apps left Reddit because Redditâs actions left a bad taste in their mouths.
So, morality of one guy charging for his honest work in creating the paid or ad supported app aside, you should be thanking the apps including sync for helping drive so many users to Lemmy.
If you yourself donât want to use a paid app, then thatâs okay! Weâre all allowed to respond or react to things how we want, but being incredibly divisive for something that a lot of people wanted and that really is inconsequential is almost universally frowned on.
Just let people do what they want and donât shoot them down for it. More options for browsing Lemmy = more Lemmings = more content.
Much love my dudes! We may disagree on this but we agree on many many many more things Iâm sure, just because weâre on Lemmy instead of Reddit in the first place is proof of that! âď¸
y2cwr2005@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨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.
stillwater@lemm.ee â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
So many FOSS evangelists sound more like âWhat do you mean making a website costs more than $20?â types than they realize.
Serpent@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
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.
JohnnyDanger@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
I think itâs time to create a lemmy version of r/subredditdrama!!!
V4uban@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
!lemmydrama@lemmy.world
regular_human@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠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¨1⊠â¨year⊠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¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
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.
codemaster@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠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¨1⊠â¨year⊠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.
okiokbar@lemm.ee â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
Let me get this right - youâre worried about tracking it use an Android phone?
BrooklynRage@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠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.