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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

As always, use free software. Look for Lemmy clients in F-Droid. Voyager is a good one.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's always struck me as a bit odd that people choose to use a paid proprietary app to access a free and open source social media platform which is developed and hosted entirely by volunteers based on donations. Whilst I don't have a problem with people making money off of Lemmy apps, making them proprietary and with ads seems against the spirit of Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

radiowaves are free, radio sets aren't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Transmitters aren't free

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It might be greed or to offset their server costs. Or both.