• 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.

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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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        Complaining about a $20 purchase you don’t have to make qualifies for “cheapskate” I think. Simply not purchasing it, or not wanting to purchase it, is fine. The difference is entitlement.

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          I think the point of this post was the lack of regional pricing, so for them it is not a $20 purchase.

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        its not a noble cause to pay some dude who made an app we dont need

        Do you think professional independent developers shouldn’t be paid for their work? Do you think this kind of development is effortless?

        I don’t understand why people keep parroting this. The app is free. It’s a professionally developed app, where the quality tradeoff is either ads (which can be blocked) or your choice of ad removal payments.

        This isn’t some company trying to exploit the community here, this is a full time app developer who just had his livelihood completely cut off. People begged him to make a version for Lemmy, and he did. He deserves to be paid for the hours and work he put in to make it happen. You can’t make an app if you can’t buy food or pay rent.

        And if you don’t like that, then don’t use it. He’s never pressured users into paying, and he’s never suggested everyone on Lemmy should just send him money. He isn’t even spamming posts advertising the app, enthusiastic users are.

        Why is everyone so upset?

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          It’s the reason lemmy is struggling, it’s mainly Linux gatekeepers and foss elitists. Along with lemmy needing a slight learning period, the community just spews toxic shit relentlessly.

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          I’m not the one who’s upset. Look at the guy I replied to. I’m literally not using the app and it’s not my responsibility to support the creator lol. I’m literally just saying I’m not a cheapskate because I’m not using your paid alternative.

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            No one is calling you a cheapskate. It’s just that when you said this:

            its not a noble cause to pay some dude who made an app we dont need

            …in context, it comes off as “Sync is not necessary to exist, therefore no one should pay him.”

            I understand what you mean now, but you worded it terribly.

            And by the way, going around in the comments being unnecessarily hostile and calling people “dumbfuck” or “asshole,” when they were just as confused at your poor phrasing, makes you come off as an asshole, so maybe work on that :)

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              No one is calling you a cheapskate.

              Dude read the comment I was replying to…

              it comes off as “Sync is not necessary to exist, therefore no one should pay him.”

              I did not say any of those words. wtf. I didn’t word shit terribly, you just made stuff up.

              makes you come off as an asshole, so maybe work on that :)

              Whether or not this is passive aggressive, it sounds like it is, which makes you come off as an asshole, so maybe work on that :)

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                No one is calling you a cheapskate.

                Dude read the comment I was replying to…

                He was definitely talking about people using the app and complaining that they can’t have it all for free. You’re not one of those people.

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                  The original post is about someone using a free app (the web app). They check out Sync and see that it has ads and costs money otherwise, and that cost has no regional pricing (apparently). So they continue to use the web app. It’s a fair complaint and it doesn’t make them a cheapskate. Doesn’t have anything to do with other people’s choices. Doesn’t mean the dev is an evil person. It’s a just a bruh moment they had.

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          Why is everyone so upset?

          You know why, it’s because in the eyes of Lemmy users who have been here all along, launch of Sync is the start of their eternal September. I moved to reddit back in 2010 as a Digg refugee after the infamous redesign, I saw much of the same back then (down to the plethora of programming and Linux memes).

          • ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat
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            Sync isn’t trying to replace all Lemmy frontends or other FOSS apps, it’s trying to provide a Reddit-like experience for people who miss it.

            People just find reasons to be upset, I swear.

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      The major issue for some is regional pricing. Where I’m from lifetime costs around $110 in regional currency

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      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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              @drekly, simple ads are not a problem, if they are based on the content of the page and not based on user logs. Ads as is only can be somewhat annoying if there a lot in the page or they appears in the middle of a concert in YT, but no are a risk for the user privacy, no more than a commercial poster in the street or an ad in TV. As with all, bad the abuse. Years ago you saw 1-2 banners in a page, but novadays you must seek the webcontent between advertisings, banners, cookieadvices and popups

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                  @drekly, no ok, blocking trackers is legit selfdefense, but also the abuse of ads, blocking these also is needed. Only it isn’t a problem when a web shows an banner image or two, this can be tolerated, but not the abuse of ads currently and annoying popups, it is legit to block this crap.

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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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            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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                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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    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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      Voyager just started their TestFlight app version a few days ago and it’s really great (on iOS.) It added haptic feedback which is very nice, and fixes the freezing issue. Otherwise it’s identical, I think. I’d guess there will be an android app sometime.

      I’m also testing Memmy and using Mlem - both are coming along great, but Voyager app version is the cleanest and my favorite atm.

      Looking forward to trying Sync when it comes to iOS. Never tried it for Reddit - only used Apollo.

  • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.ml
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    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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    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.

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      I think this is just a reaction to the massive amount of hype we all saw yesterday.

      It’s a good app, but it’s expensive, potentially collects your data and shares it with advertisers, and it’s closed source. That’s the facts of the matter so far as I can tell…

      The are pros and cons here, obviously, but it’s neither objectively positive or negative. With the pricetag comes unique features, like being able to tag people with notes. That’s neat!

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    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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      Yep, it’s literally just another Reddit. The main benefit is that it’s decentralized so it’s not under the control of a single corporation, but yeah, it’s mainly ex redditors on a service designed to be an alternative to Reddit