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A beautiful Lemmy app for browsing Lemmy on the go!
  • DM_Gold@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Holy shit y’all. Developers need to eat too. It’s totally fine to charge for an app or serve ads. LjDawson is a fantastic developer and really listens to his user base. Yes there are plenty of open source apps to use, but sometimes closed source is way more polished because the developer makes it their job to create the app. Living isn’t free. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • Whirlybird@aussie.zoneEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Holy shit y’all. Developers need to eat too. It’s totally fine to charge for an app or serve ads.

      You might be forgetting that these same developers refused to simply put in a subscription to their reddit apps to continue them, instead closing their apps and telling everyone to move to lemmy because that’s where their app will be…and now adding huge subscription fees and one-off fees on a platform that doesn’t charge them to use their API lol.

      Maybe I’m just cynical but this really seems like the dollar signs lit up in the reddit app devs eyes the second reddits API changes got announced.

  • OceanSoap@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Jesus, the absolute entitlement in this thread. Can everyone just chill until the app is out of the beta version? Some of us are fine with seeing ads until the lifetime fee is available, and some of us are fine paying a subscription until the lifetime fee is available. If you’d rather not use the app until then don’t, but trashing the dev for getting paid while he works endlessly to create the sync experience for us is so ignorant and childish.

    Sync is by far the best user experience app for lemmy that’s available for Android, just as it was for reddit, and it’s worth the wait and the price until the pro version is available.

    I hope the dev ignores the whiners and focuses on those of us that get it. How demotivating to see people run their mouths when they dint know what they’re talking about.

  • TheFrirish@jlai.luEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m sorry. I get a developper needs to eat but 100+ dollars for the lifetime is absolutely outrageous. That is more than some AAA games on release.

  • t0fr@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Not interested in something that supports ads or subscriptions. It definitely doesn’t fit the ethos or average desires of most lemmy users from what I understand.

    The free and open source applications for lemmy are working out for me, so I really have no need for something like this that goes against what I believe lemmy stands for

    • Tyfud@lemmy.oneEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      Sometimes you have to pay for keeping things free, if that makes any sense.

      FOSS can’t exist in a vacuum. The developers spend a lot of time on things and they need to be paid for their efforts, otherwise we won’t get great products like Sync.

      If you want things that are well maintained and supported, then there has to be income for those owners to provide those services.

      Sync for lemmy is a top tier client. I’m willing to pay to get and support that model. It’s not like the 17 dollars a year is a big deal. I spend more than that on a single sushi roll sometimes.

      • danielholt@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Where? I can’t see it in the Ultra section??

        Update

        Found it.

        £12.99

        The option is available by clicking your profile icon and selecting ‘remove ads’.

    • humanplayer2@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I was wondering what was up with the ads consent things. The reason I switched to Sync in the first place was to get rid of ads on Reddit…

      • ijeff@lemdro.idMEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Although there was the option to purchase Pro as a one-time fee. This one unfortunately only has a subscription option (which I’m not too keen on).

        Edit: ljdawson has confirmed there will be an one-time payment options for both Ultra and ad removal!

        • BackStabbath@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          It’ll probably have a one time fee option. The dev must know that not everyone will want to pay a subscription. I paid for removing ads on Sync for Reddit and I’ll happily do it again, so hopefully there will be an option of just removing ads. I don’t use either Lemmy or Reddit enough to justify paying a subscription, even though I really respect the dev.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Order of priority of paying for stuff

    1. Donate to the lemmy instance you’re using if possible. They are bearing the brunt of the costs for you to have access to the threadiverse
    2. Donate to the lemmy developers.
    3. Donate or buy the frontend of your choice.