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It would be a lot better if it was a true donation, since Lemmy itself doesn't have ads. The developer also has very minimal fees to cover, so it makes no sense to add ads ontop of a free service and have a steep price to remove it (yes, 20+ dollars for an app toconly remove ads is steep, look around at other app prices). This was not the case for Sync on Reddit, it was a lot cheaper.
It just seems unnecessarily greedy by the developer
Hey, man's gotta eat. And there's many roads to Rome if you really don't want to pay the developer to remove the ads.
Man's gotta eat, but he doesn't have to be gluttonous
Y'all are ridiculous. $20 is less than the median hourly wage in the US for both men and women, even worst case scenario you're earning $7.25 an hour so almost 3 hours of work to pay for ad free Sync. I challenge you to make a better app in those same 3 hours so you don't need to pay for it.
Not only are you paying for the app as it is now, you're paying for years if not DECADES of updates too. All done by ONE GUY.
If you don't like it, don't use it. Stop character shaming the dev for trying to make an honest living creating an app a LOT of people (including myself) wanted.
Then don't use sync
Yea I don't anymore, switched to Voyager since it's on google play store now
Thanks for the heads up on Voyager. Will definitely give that a try.
how does it compare ? I've been using Sync for years but I'll gladly ditch any service that's doesn't align with my values provided I have an alternative
So far it's pretty great, it has a few minor bugs in it and some features that could be added but looks like it has an active developer so not really an issue
It's more expensive than the upgrade was for Reddit, but it's a smaller market and you pay more for a niche product. I don't have a problem with him getting paid for a good product.
people seem to forget that the dev wants to work FULL TIME on the app, you are paying for having great updates quick bug fixes etc.
That was the case for sync for reddit too.
I would like to point out that @[email protected] has been very forward to the LW team and he has our full support. And while Lemmy itself doesn't have ads and Lemmy World is running on donations and volunteers that doesn't mean that every developer should be forced to do charity-work. This is his full-time job and he provided plenty of choices for those who don't want to pay or who don't want to pay the full price for Ultra. If that's not enough, nobody is forcing you to do anything.