In many ways, Mastodon feels like rewinding the clock on social media back to the early days of Twitter and Facebook. On the consume side, that means that your home feed has no algorithm (this can be disorienting at first).

Practically, it means that you see only what you want to see and only see it linearly. You never wonder “why am I seeing this and how do I make it go away?”. Content can only enter your home feed via your followed tags or handles and the feed is linear like the early days of social media.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm working on the app full-time and the ads / subscriptions cover development costs.

[–] Koplinaut 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just wanted to say I greatly appreciate everything that you've done for reddit/lemmy in app development. Without Sync I'm not sure how I'd browse the web without pulling out all my hair due to all the ads and inconsistencies.

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

(シ_ _)シ

[+] Izzy -10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That isn't a good justification to me. If it's ok for you then it's ok for the rest of the world too. You might believe ads aren't bad and that's fine. At least we can agree to disagree on that as our opinions aren't reconcilable. If your app can't exist without ads then I don't believe it should exist at all. Or any other software in the world.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It can exist without ads, and does, but not everyone is willing to compensate his time and effort with money

[–] thimantha 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That isn't a good justification to me.

You want developers who spent years studying design and development, to spend months developing an app, to just give that app away for free?

People like you are why more and more developers join big corporations for salaried position rather than trying to make it by themselves in the indie scene. Because they know they can't make it in the indie scene because you are too cheap to pay for their apps (either by buying the app, or by consenting to see ads)

If your app can't exist without ads then I don't believe it should exist at all.

Sync for Lemmy exists as a paid, ad-free version. The ad-supported version only exists for people who don't want to, or can't, buy the app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~If not ad-supported, how would you propose a free product earn revenue to stay free?~~

I see further down discussion addresses my question.