But thatās more in response to people saying it cost over 100$ to remove ads and it has trackers.
The ultra life time cost 100$, it stops the ads and also comes with some extra features that isnāt needed to enjoy sync.
For 20$ the ads will stop and the trackers will be disabled.
Why would you need to pay $20 to access free content? Devs donāt pay any creator who makes you scroll Lemmy. They are useless and sell you air.
If someone sell an air purifier, would you berate them for selling access to free air? Of course not, you can still access free air without it. The air purifier just make the free air feel nicer, just like sync making browsing free Lemmy contents feel nicer.
This feels a bit more like setting up a ticket booth outside a public library, and offering a half-assed tour where the guide just reads the signs to you
Iām going to roll my eyes any time someone says they canāt use the library without it, but you do you. If it keeps yāall reading, then thatās fine.
You donāt need to do anything, just keep on using the FOSS apps. Itās all good. Itās all about having choice.
The content isnāt really āfreeā the people running the servers need to be paid also. If nobody would donate or they donāt use any other form of getting funds, the servers wouldnāt last.
Sync just provides a way to get to content in a nice polished way, at least thatās how experience it. I could watch ads but I paid for a more better experience.
Both need to make money to eat and keep things running.
When you take a taxi to see a movie, nobody thinks that the taxi driver shouldnāt be paid.
Why would they pay 20$? Because even if sync is used to access a free service it is a product someone spent their time to make, and is optional. If people want to pay to use the app without ads because they think itās made better than the others (ignoring the ad and Google tracking on free version it IS one of if not the best app experience for Lemmy) they will. The Lemmy experience on sync is 100% better than on Jerboa for me, and I work hard running my own business so Iām not poor so I already forgot about that 20$ and Iām enjoying lemmy MORE than I was before
Itās really simple you guys are just grouches.
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I donāt care what client yāall use as long as people are here and not on reddit
Most people donāt care about what client others are using. Itās more the evangelizing of what how $20 isnāt that big a deal that is starting to get annoying. If it was just Sync came out and people who liked it used it then itād be fine, but then some of you guys are bit too fanatical that youād go into other communities like liftoff to start arguing about Sync and how $20 is worth paying and the app deserves it and so on, and then trashing the Foss alternatives. Yes we get it you love Sync and is the best app ever, but try and tone it down a bit. Itās more the userbase that is hurting the image right now than anything.
I donāt care about your background, but since youāve mentioned it, you couldāve dropped $20 to lemmy.ml instead of cashing out for an app that creates problems unless you pay for it, since you throw money around that easy. They need it more than sync devs. This conversation couldnāt have happened if our instances werenāt properly hosted, but they are still availiable on any app you choose.
