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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[–] klyde@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It's like people just can't shut up about this now. Jfc.

[–] vd1n@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kinda reminds me of spez not wanting third-party apps.

But also reminds me capitalism rapes like Cosby.

I'd rather give to lemmy as a whole. I'd maybe spend 2-3$ one time pay for unlimited updates and use of a sm app.

[–] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

I'll throw some money in!

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I'm disabled and on a fixed income. I make less than minimum wage. The only thing I have to contribute are my occasional keen thoughts, but if you need me to leave, I can. I get that a lot.

I won't be buying or using Sync, as its pricing is prohibitive and ads sometimes include malware.

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[–] moitoi@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 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.

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[–] Astroturfed@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago

Suck it nerd.

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