Well to be fair, he’s been building and updating the app for 10 years now and just porting it over to Lemmy recently if you want to look at it that way. It’s not an entirely new app out of the blue.

People when developers need to pay for their homes and electricity and buy food: this is a fucking scam, absolute bullshit

People deserve to be paid for their labor. This is Lemmy; that’s the default position given our history. There are plenty of free as in beer and speech apps out there if someone doesn’t or can’t pay the price. But software development is hard work, especially if it isn’t a hobby. And a lot of Lemmy apps are hobbyists. That’s the communtiy phase we are in right now. And we are a smaller community, which means fewer paying customers, which means a higher overall cost. LJ can’t throw out an app for $5 and expect a hundred thousand to convert into paying customers off the backs of over a million downloads.

I’ll never understand this criticism of Sync. I hate subscriptions as much as most people, but with software it sort of makes sense because the work never ends. It isn’t like buying a bookcase or any other static item. And Sync, in this case, isn’t like what companies such as LG are doing where they are intoducing forced subscriptions into static firmware to extract maximum wealth from customers.

It’s not 135$.

For a lifetime ultra experience. I could realistically get a decade out of it. Ad free is way cheaper too

To get the initial release out. It’s not like there’ll be no more development after that. Plus, there’s the much cheaper price for just add free.

i’m using it for free

“if that’s all it took”

Are you fucking insane? I’ve never worked that hard in my life and likely neither have you