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Of course, that's to be expected, with people migrating from Reddit and all, but the title is kind of badly worded.

Feel there's a lot more argumentative and just kind of.. angry users on here. (have you seen Sync fans biting everyone's asses over saying money should be spent funding instances and not an app?)

Live laugh love Lemmy though :)

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[–] sucricdrawkcab 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You take any topic, with passionate fans and they'll defend it. A lot of it probably from the backlash was the first thing they saw.

I'll keep it real, I paid for Sync because of the decade history with that app and plan on doing the same (a post linked a way to do it) with the instance I'm in. I see me being on Lemmy a lot and looking forward to keeping the positive vibes going.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

See but at least some of that is going to make it back to an instance host and help keep servers going, and I think that’s the biggest gripe myself and a lot of people have with the sync iaps and advertising

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do you think it's an either/or? It isn't at all.

Besides, sync was always monetized, and everyone that was asking/begging Dawson to migrate the app knew that. The only people surprised are people that didn't use it to begin with, and aren't going to use it now.

Were you not a reddit user, or a third party app user? Like, most of the reddit apps were Monetized in some way. Apollo, the app that was the tipping point for the reddit rage was heavily monetized, and people were begging Christian to port it over.

The whole thing is crazy. If a given person wants to use it and pay for it, that's their business. Dawson did nothing bad by porting the app, or monetizing it from the beginning. How many great apps have fucked up by not monetizing from the beginning? Look at pushbullet and how it started so great, but then had to backpeddle and increase monetizing, only to alienate users because it was a change.

I'm sorry you don't like capitalism, and I'm sorry we're stuck inside it too. But an app like this is a pretty time intensive thing. You either kill your spare time working on it as a hobby, or you monetize so you can avoid how much time it sucks from you by not having to work on other things.

[–] jiji 3 points 1 year ago

Besides, sync was always monetized, and everyone that was asking/begging Dawson to migrate the app knew that. The only people surprised are people that didn't use it to begin with, and aren't going to use it now.

I’m an iPhone user so never had Sync, but even I’m confused about how upset people are. It’s like they’re trying to be offended on behalf of Sync users? Like…Sync users aren’t forced to use it and aren’t forced to pay for it. They choose to because they like the app and appreciate what the dev does. I loved Apollo and while I know Christian isn’t going to make a Lemmy app, if he did I would pay for it/pay for an ad free version because I know he does good work and I like his product.

[–] PsychedSy 4 points 1 year ago

Por que no los dos?

Homie's been updating sync for over a decade. He actually asked us what he should do and we told him to make a lemmy app. Sync for Lemmy was trending in play store social media apps at #6 yesterday.

I'm from reddit and I hate the reddit shit as much as you. I was actually looking forward to some interesting conversations. Lemmy'll grow and part of that growth will be development and part of it will be social norms around federation and these damn kids.

[–] sucricdrawkcab 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I'm aware why people gripes. Almost all the biggest threads I've seen are about it, memes, just and endless wave of it. It's just a trip to see the Lemmy Patreon with 484 people subscribed to it with this many people on Lemmy.

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

Where can I find this patreon? I searched around a bit, but I couldn't find it. Maybe if it had more visibility there would be more patreons.

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

Absolutely zero visibility to this especially if you join on mobile