I think now is a great time to remind everyone, like sync's developer, Lemmy's developers need to be paid too! The amount of time all the devs put into making lemmy exist, in my opinion, should be worth some of your money. If you can afford it, donating to the people who develop lemmy and/or the people keeping your home instance up will accelerate the incredible growth of lemmy!

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[–] moitoi@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If the sync dev would be fair and not greedy, he would give at least the 2/3 of his revenues from the app to the Lemmy devs and the instances. Otherwise, I guess instances should be able to block these apps.

I understand everyone need to earn something. And keeping max 1/3 is good.

People need to understand and in priority the people coming from Reddit that Lemmy is not reddit. Reddit earns money with ads and investors. They could inject ads through the APIs and states in the usage terms that 3rd party devs could not remove them. They didn't do it.

Lemmy is a complet other story. Lemmy rely on donations. So, when someone donates to the Lemmy devs and/or instances, the dev of a paid app is making money on this donation. Without the Lemmy devs and the instances, the paid app would not exist at all. It's not fair at all to not share the revenue of these apps.

These paid apps and their devs are at best predators and at least parasitics.

[–] johnlobo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if you're not greedy you would pay lemmy dev, and whatever lemmy app you use

[–] moitoi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Relying on the donation of others to the Lemmy dev and instances to make profits is way more greedy. It is even parasitic on one side.

People not donating is a thing but they don't make profits. It's a huge difference on the greedy scale.