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It's so nice to see them all growing, but this is just the truth, sorry. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

Commoditization by adding ads in a natively ad-free and libre service, and also questionable pricing:

$20 for ad removal (which some say doesn't disable tracking?)
$2 monthly or $20 annual or $120 lifetime Ultra subscription, which includes ad removal and a few serverside bells and whistles like cloud backup

This pricing increased 10 times in comparison to pre-API shit Sync for Reddit, so the community is now divided on whether the developer spreads the costs over fewer potential users on Lemmy vs. Reddit or is just being greedy and trying to monetize the new service as quick as possible before it potentially dies off.

[–] APassenger 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The pricing isn't up 10x. The lifetime ultra isn't 100 USD. It is expensive to many and I won't dispute that.

I'll make an alternate argument. If people can afford sync, I'm hoping they can afford to support lemmy and/or servers. And if that's the case, what's the beef?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The pricing isn’t up 10x.

Okay, fair, I rounded up. Ad removal is 4x ($5 to $20) and Ultra is 2x to 5x depending on the tier.

The lifetime ultra isn’t 100 USD.

Right; for me it's 124.78 USD converted.

It is expensive to many and I won’t dispute that.

Well yeah LJ is free to charge $10k for all we care, it's his right. The problem is he's acting contrary to the idea of the libre community and seems to forget what drove people away from Reddit. I have no data to back this up, but given the response on the official Sync community, he could very well double the amount of paying customers by halving the prices.

I’ll make an alternate argument. If people can afford sync, I’m hoping they can afford to support lemmy and/or servers. And if that’s the case, what’s the beef?

I do support Lemmy developers and my home instance on Liberapay and loved Sync back in the reddit days but I still have doubts about making this sort of purchase right now

[–] aetrix 7 points 2 years ago

The problem is he's acting contrary to the idea of the libre community and seems to forget what drove people away from Reddit.

What drove me away from reddit is when they killed Sync.

I loved the old app, I still love the new app, it's a pleasure to use compared to the alternatives I've tried, and I find the ultra subscription rate both reasonable and worthwhile to support a product I truly enjoy.

Sync is good for me. There's plenty of other options if it's not good for you.

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