Thanks for making Lemmy feel like home, it wouldnāt without you!
The reality is itās a free world, regardless of what morality you put on things there are going to be things that happen that you donāt like. Thatās life.
Like it or not Lemmy has had explosive growth because of apps like Sync. Because of them being killed off by Reddit. If it werenāt for the drama of Reddit doing that, I and millions of other users wouldnāt be here right now as weād still be on Reddit.
Even people who werenāt using the 3rd party apps left Reddit because Redditās actions left a bad taste in their mouths.
So, morality of one guy charging for his honest work in creating the paid or ad supported app aside, you should be thanking the apps including sync for helping drive so many users to Lemmy.
If you yourself donāt want to use a paid app, then thatās okay! Weāre all allowed to respond or react to things how we want, but being incredibly divisive for something that a lot of people wanted and that really is inconsequential is almost universally frowned on.
Just let people do what they want and donāt shoot them down for it. More options for browsing Lemmy = more Lemmings = more content.
Much love my dude! We may disagree on this but we agree on many many many more things Iām sure, just because weāre on Lemmy instead of Reddit in the first place is proof of that! āļø
Someone downvoted you for the first paragraph, I guess.
I donāt think Sync impacted the reach of Lemmy just yet (it rolled out how many days before?) but it would, maybe. Especially for those who used it before.
I spat acid not because Iām pissed at people who use it or devs especially, but for not seeing any critique. It seems like an important turning point for Lemmy as a community. And no one bat an eye. I acted as a counterbalance. A mad one, and picked some low-stakes fights. It was funny.
Have a nice day, dude\ss.
