$20 to support a solo dev AND remove ads from his awesome lemmy client? Sweet!
Are there any Lemmy apps that actually let you click and highlight a parent comment and then click on a next button to automatically and instantly scroll to the next apparent level comment? RiF (Reddit is fun) had that feature and I canāt believe Iām not seeing it on either connect for Lemmy or that sync app.
In sync if you long press on a comment itāll collapse all childrenā¦ admittedly itās different than what you were describing but itāll have a similar effect. Lmk if you want a screenshot or something.
And you can toggle it to be single click, not hold because sync likes config options
Yeah, why are some people saying itās a hundred dollars? Iām still using the free version, but my Google Play page is saying 20 bucks. I donāt know where that extra 80 is coming from
AND remove ads
See thatās what I find obnoxious. IMO programs should not have advertising because nothing should have advertising. Advertising is capitalist conditioning. It shoves consumerism down our throats. The last thing we need now is more mindless consumption!
I suppose that if you donāt have any contempt for or opposition to advertising then there really isnāt a reason to complain. But I really wish people would take a stand against advertisement, or more generally capitalism and consumerism. Really, who would choose an application where space is wasted on selling them crap when any other option is available? I think such a choice is influenced by the idea that advertising is an inherent part of life, an idea which needs to be countered whenever it crops up. You should be free to make choices that others find irrational of course, but I still think that we need to step up and counter the logic that advertising is some neutral force.
If the developer wants to monetize the program, he could find some other way to do it, such as luxury features, premium support, or premium feature requests. However, my view is that things that occur primarily to make money should probably not occur at all, and that they only happen because capitalism has been imposed upon us. Said differently: if you donāt want to develop an app, then just donāt do it. Iām absolutely willing to compensate you for your work, and I know that we all need to make a living (under capitalism!), but if the money is forcing you to do it, then clearly you wouldnāt do it in a free environment [1].
But at the end of the day, I cannot stress enough how sick I am of being advertised to. No, I donāt want to buy your product. If I want to obtain something, I will go to your website or subscribe to your mailing list, or otherwise proactively indicate my interest. If you want to promote stuff, promote your own stuff or stuff , so ince you think your audience/customers would be interested in, because Iāve already somehow explicitly indicated that Iām interested in your affairs/wares. So Iāve made it a goal to expel advertising from all aspects of my life.
[1] Yes, this would imply that the vast majority of workers would drop out of the workforce and go do things that they enjoy. This would be a good thing. We donāt need to waste all our time doing āproductiveā stuff anymore.
I too dream of a world where weāve moved on from capitalism to a socialist utopia like is in the United Federation of Planets, but we are not currently in that world. So until that time, we all have to earn a living to pay our landlords and feed ourselves.
For most things we are given a choice between ads or paying, and I almost always choose paying for no ads as I canāt stand them either. But until developers can live without bills and only do work for free because they enjoy it, our choice remains pay for no ads or be served ads. So I paid for no ads.
So I deleted the original comment because I found out that there was more to the Sync story than just advertising, and I realized that my comment wasnāt up to snuff. I didnāt mean to deceive anyone.
But until developers can live without bills and only do work for free because they enjoy it, our choice remains pay for no ads or be served ads.
That was exactly my point though: we do not have only two choices [(1) to pay for no ads and (2) to be served ads]. I listed some some alternative monetization schemes that donāt encourage consumerism. Namely, premium support for paying users, custom feature requests for users willing to pay the development cost, or luxury features that, while nice to have, arenāt necessary for the functioning of the app.
This point was probably in response to the section of the deleted comment where I argued that stuff that is done only for money probably shouldnāt happen at all. I stand by that. However, I do recognize the need for developers to eat. (I thought I said as much in the deleted comment.) For this reason, I use all sorts of software that I have paid for, and will continue to do so [2]. However, I will not pay a developer for their software if the functionality theyāre selling me is ānot having ads,ā because ads shouldnāt exist.
I shouldnāt have to pay for my software not to kick me in the balls; similarly, I shouldnāt have have to pay for my software not to show me ads. Unlike being kicked in the balls [1], every waking moment of my life up until recently has been crammed with ads.
There are an infinite number of ways to make money that donāt require advertising, and I would be willing to pay for them in general [2]. Hell, Iāll be willing to donate for no reward [2]. Iām not against making money in an arbitrary way (at least under current conditions), but I most certainly oppose advertising as a specific way of making money.
[1] Iām not āintoā that, but in case it isnāt clear, I would rather be kicked in the balls than see one more godforsaken advertisement. I cannot stress enough how much I hate advertising.
[2] ā¦once I have a non-zero income.
