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Post launch day chat (self.syncforlemmy)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ljdawson to c/syncforlemmy

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Afternoon everyone,

I wanted to go over a few points related to pricing, stats and the roadmap

Pricing

Sync for Lemmy is completely free with ads (the same as Sync for Reddit)
You can remove ads in the account picker or drawer for a one time fee of ~$20
Sync Ultra also removes ads but it's not required
I'll be working on regional prices over the coming weeks

There are now 24k installed users up from 100 the previous day!

I'm going to be spending the next few days going through all of the comments / messages and fixing any crashes.

As always thanks for the support and hope you're liking Sync!

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[–] Taeye0n 90 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (54 children)

Yeah man...I am a dev myself but $20 to remove ads is just too much, especially without regional pricing.

[–] ljdawson 125 points 1 year ago (24 children)

I'll be working on this full time and plan to make this the best Lemmy app possible.

[–] dzonc 38 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I think the pricing is fine if the quality matches it. Considering how much time we spend on our phones it could be great value for money.

I'm very curious to see how the advertising option works out for you, as currently I'm not aware of any lemmy sites with sustainable finance models.

[–] the_itsb 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Beehaw is currently financially sustainable.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call it financially sustainable. It pays for the servers, not for the labor.

No offense to beehaw, they're doing great work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most of FOSS doesn't pay for labor, its volunteers.

[–] sgtlighttree 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That level of transparency is incredible, lowkey considering making an account there...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're defederated with lemmy.world and https://sh.itjust.works/. It's something to consider before joining

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Also worth noting at the time they said it was temporary and due to the lack of sufficient mod tools available in Lemmy. If mod tools improve that could change. But yes, right now it's definitely something to think about with world being a massive instance that m with a lot of larger communities.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I definitely wouldn't, you'd lose out on half the content on lemmy

[–] sgtlighttree 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I read about that too, but what if I make an account on an instance that isn't world or beehaw? Would I see content from both?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yep

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They like to keep a really tight walled garden. That's why I left, I want to decide for myself which instances to block.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The AOL of Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmyworld is quite transparent too: https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld

[–] sgtlighttree 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if that's shared with lemmy.world or if that data is just for the Mastodon service?