• drekly@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The developer worked his ass off to repurpose his app to Lemmy for us.

    I was more than happy to pay for his time. Hard work deserves reward. If people aren’t going to pay him and use the free version, which you’re welcome to, then he makes his money from ads (which pay fuck-all)

    You’re just a bunch of cheapskates who want to be entertained for nothing.

    • Nora@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      ya went a little too far at the end there. nothing wrong with not wanting to pay a subscription fee lol. its not a noble cause to pay some dude who made an app we dont need

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      1 year ago

      He doesn’t deserve any reward for making spyware/adware garbage. His app is at odds with the ethos of lemmy. Fuck your ad hominem.

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          @drekly @Plswrk, nobody needs to work for free, but creating incommings by spying the user to sell his data to third party isn’t an acceptable way to gain money. There are a lot of methodes to gain money in the network, but with surveillance advertising spyware is the worse and with big risks for the user, which can’t control where his personal data ends up.

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          You can maneuver all you want, it is spyware. My hobby work is free. I don’t track my users nor do I inundate them with ads. I believe that’s unethical.

          My work work is not available for free in any capacity whatsoever.

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            1 year ago

            Good job you’re not using an android phone so it doesn’t matter!

            It’s his full time job, so his "work work " isn’t free in any capacity either, you either pay with ad revenue or you pay with $20

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              He chose to go down that path. No one forced him. It’s a brain dead argument mate.

              Oh and btw, it is free in some capacity. You do not have to pay to use the free version. It’s literally called the fucking free version.

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                1 year ago

                The free version with ads that pay the developer that everyone’s losing their minds over like they’ve never seen an advert before.

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                  Rightfully so, because it tracks you, collects and sells your data and inundates you with ads, which is literally every single fucking thing lemmy was built to get around.

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    All the self righteousness of lemmy is strange.

    There’s not just better opinions, even small decisions are morally imbued and if someone steps out of line…

    Wait, does using sync cause hurricanes? Earthquakes? Will the four big ponies of the lempocalypse arrive and snort angrily?

    Otherwise, I get that a surge of people elated they have something you don’t/can’t have is off putting. FOMO is real.

    But it doesn’t need all the meme-shade.

  • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’m just happy we have all of these choices.

    The FOSS apps are fantastic already and Sync is there if you want that too.

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    1 year ago

    Just paying a visit to lemmy because Sync is out, and all I’ve seen is this. Lemmy is just another reddit, isn’t it? People here are no better like what they believe themselves to be, still the same everywhere.

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    I don’t understand the people hating on Sync just as much as I don’t understand the people hating posts criticizing sync.

    It’s an app. Let people use what they want to use lmao. Growth for Lemmy is a good thing regardless

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      God forbid you have to can pay for stuff if you want.

      It’s a third party app. One of many. With an optional purchase to support the dev. Honestly…

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      $20 one time for a well developed app that I use multiple hours a day is inexpensive.

      I pay almost as much to multiple streaming services PER MONTH for a shitty experience and sometimes not a completely ad-free experience.

      Anyway, in all honesty I chose the $1.99/mo because it gives the dev $24/yr into perpetuity. I also donate to instances. I also use Connect and Jerboa and Liftoff. It’s whatever.