this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
1167 points (95.6% liked)

Fediverse

28420 readers
1331 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
ruud
Xylinna
MrCenny
TragicNotCute
automodbeta
woelkchen
1167
With all this talk about sync's pricing... (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/fediverse
290 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] indianactresslover 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not seeing many ads tbh. However, I'm damn sure that it'll be ad-filled after sometime, specially since they are charging so much for the ad-free.

[–] Kavhow 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean it's just a port of the Reddit version that was made by the same dev and had been around for over a decade (with constant updates and improvements), I don't think enshittification is a given.

[–] jarfil 4 points 1 year ago

Well, compared to Reddit getting filled with "ad looking like real post", and "ad written as a comment", and "mass downvote everyone except the ad"... it's really hard to stoop that low.

What is likely to keep Sync in check, are the alternative apps. Reddit got enshittified because it became the single point of failure.

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

I don't think it's a given and the dev has a proven track record.

...buuuuuutttt they did move to a much smaller userbase so I wonder how many ads he will need for sustainability.

[–] UnculturedSwine 5 points 1 year ago

Depends on if their business model works. If enough people are paying for premium and using the free version of the app to pay for development, there is no reason for them to increase the amount of ads. In fact, if they do show too many ads, it will likely push a lot of users to alternate apps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The ads weren't terrible on the free Reddit version, they're just inline ads between posts.

There may have been a banner on some galleries but I'm not sure if that's carried over also.