I think now is a great time to remind everyone, like sync's developer, Lemmy's developers need to be paid too! The amount of time all the devs put into making lemmy exist, in my opinion, should be worth some of your money. If you can afford it, donating to the people who develop lemmy and/or the people keeping your home instance up will accelerate the incredible growth of lemmy!

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[–] veganzombeh 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is it true that purchases from sync for reddit don't carry over to sync for lemmy? I don't know how anyone could possibly justify a lifetime purchase if so.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They literally are making a new app that, sure, has a very similar look and feel but its for a completely different platform. Sure, it probably shares UI code, but I'm sure a lot of the code to pull from reddit had to be scrapped. I think they deserve to be compensated for their effort and giving any one the app just because they paid for a different app woyls not be compensarion for their efforts. They have to get paid so they can live just like you and me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

When you buy something you do not have to think whether the developer deserves it or not, especially for software where producing more copies is free. You decide whether it is worth it for you.

When you donate, you think about whether someone deserves it and who deserves your money most.

[–] roboticide 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean, that's a problem with a "lifetime" purchase of anything, especially software.

But as long as your expected usage over your expected period of time is cheaper than a recurring subscription for the same period of time, it's still worth it for a "lifetime" purchase.

[–] jarfil 2 points 1 year ago

The true "lifetime purchase" for software, is the GPL.

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

Yes, that's correct

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know how anyone could possibly justify a lifetime purchase if so.

I don't know either. You can give your option, but be sure to let them do what they want to do