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Please put your money where your mouth is. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sync Ultra is a very reasonable $17 a YEAR. YouTube Premium is reaching that per MONTH. I have sync downloaded and it was the first thing I did. Thanks lj for the beautiful app.

[EDIT: That was a poor comparison, as pointed out in the comments. Leaving it for discussion sake.

There are many counterpoints and actually good discussion happening down below. Even if you don't agree, thanks for showing me a different perspective!

If you want to support Sync, make sure to support the Lemmy Devs and your instance holders as well!

*This post was made early in the day before the update added the OTP option.]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Immediately bought Ultra. Monthly basis and thankfully set it up with my Google Play balance. So glad I use Google Rewards to help out!

Feels like reuniting with an old friend!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bought a year sub to support the dev after all the reddit fuckery. We'll see if I renew.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The difference is I use YouTube and YouTube Music for hours a day. I'm on Lemmy maybe an hour a day. I'm not paying any subscription for a free service. I wouldn't even pay for YouTube Premium, but I'm an original Google Music adopter, and their music algorithm really knows what I like.

I gave up Netflix, so I can stomach the cost increase this one time. Maybe my mood will change when the price increase hits later this year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not paying any subscription for a free service

You aren't. That would be your Lemmy instances patreon (or similar). I hope you support your instance because otherwise this entire service could fail.

You're paying for the slick presentation and app features with Sync. I'm a software engineer. It is difficult work. Time consuming. Risky as well given this (sync) is literally the dev's full time job.

That's the beauty of third party apps; you can find a best match for you. But there will almost always be a quality and feature gap between people doing it for a hobby and people doing it for a career. That is why Apollo beat basically every iOS client. That is also why Sync beat the other Android reddit clients for me. And it has already beaten the free ones for Lemmy in my opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still paying my sync for reddit fee and I bought pro in 2012. I also subbed to the lemmy variant today.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would you still be paying for reddit sync? If you want to donate, do it directly and not in a way where Google takes 15%

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Excuse me? People can barely afford food. A huge chunk of the population will never own their own home. Everyone is asking for tips and wages are not going up. Why pay for something when I can access it for free right now? Sure they may have worked hard to make an app, but it's not my job or responsibility to pay them for a service that I get for free. I'm not paying $1.50 a month to have what my current app has. That's stupid.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Had some Google Play balance, supported the dev. This is already the best Lemmy app by far.

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