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There was something that just felt wrong about the sync app thread in one of the lemmy.world communities. Just post after post of "yay, it's like having reddit back again." Reddit can fuck off. I like the novelty and slight roughness around the edges.
It's more having a familiar app back, the look and feel of it all it's so familiar to me that it's great to have back. And it feels better than liftoff in my opinion
Are we not free to decide which software we use? If so, then your question can only be answered individually.
Your second question confuses me a little. There is nothing inherently pro or anti capitalist about the tech, especially in light of the first point.
To me, yes. I spent a decade on sync pro for reddit, so it wasn't even a thought. Others don't have to feel the same way or use it.
I like the dev. I like supporting the dev to continue improving an app I like.
Value is subjective, but I do consider worth it to fund LJ's work on the app.
He has been working on Sync for years full time, which is why Sync was/is one of the most polished and frequently updated apps out there. If there's a small price to pay for it, so be it, the guy has to eat.
Not full time, he was a student iirc which is why he went MIA for like a year
He went MIA when people hated v20, apparently he was a bit burnt out already and the response to the update was the tipping point. But LJ does make a living out of Sync.
Which made me so sad. Yes, v20 was a big change, but it was overall a better experience, in my opinion. I'd been using it for a long time on the beta before it was released to stable and was absolutely shocked at its general reception.
So developers shouldn’t be allowed to make money for the time and effort they put in to making apps?
As a developer myself, yes. There's nothing wrong with a dev of an awesome app to make some bucks, and no, it's not the same as reddit, you know who gets the ad money there, here is straight to the guy developing the app. If I don't feel like paying, I can always move to another app.
It's worth twenty dollars for a better experience with more polish than any other app. No question.
Schrödinger’s Ads
Easily
I don't think a person selling an app is capitalism. There's no means of production, there's no apparent attempt to appropriate and profit from stuff that rightly belongs to the people who actually made it. Unless Sync is actually written by a bunch of people who are not getting ownership of the project?
Jesus y'all are rude. Obviously he meant he can interact with the app in the same way he used to (via sync). When you've equated an app with a service for so long you will tend to say things like that. No need to get all elitist about it.
To you old people angry at changes: is it illegal to enjoy stuff? Is it not good that Lemmy attracts people from reddit? This sounds to me like good old conservatism. Also if Sync dev turns into a capitalist pro slavery billionaire, Lemmy should be the place to welcome refugees.
As an old person with opinions:
What's wrong with people sharing their opinions on a social media site? It's what we're all here for. If you're annoyed that so many different people have this opinion, well... Here we are. Sometimes discussion is one-sided and sometimes it's not.
Exactly. Glad we agree.
That's the exciting thing about new types of open architectures, you have numerous people putting their ideas into the space. Instead of being tied down to one way to do things, you're allowed to experiment and maybe even see crossover of some features.
I'm with you. There are a few terrific apps that were born here on Lemmy. Thunder, Connect and Summit are current favorites. Even though there was a time when Sync was my jam, I plan to stick with the locals.
I get you, but you have to admit Sync for Lemmy is gonna make the transition from r3ddit sooo easy for so many people.
There's a difference between "unpolished" and "can't keep what posts ought to be on the page straight". Like Ruby on Rails can get that right 100% of the time out of the box before you write any code, I don't know how Lemmy's web UI manages to do it wrong.
I don't want Reddit's ads shoved down my throat and I don't want a third party app's neither. Not having an option to unlock ads permanently is a deal breaker for me. The developer just comes across as greedy tbh
You can permanently disable ads now.
Thank god for that!
You refusing to pay for services you use comes across as greedy tbh
Viewing ads is a form of payment. Deal with it, dude, or don't use it. It's not hard.
Subscriptions bad, one off purchases good!
Sure, but at the same time you can't demand ongoing development of something you pay for once