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What Lemmy Client(s) Do You Use? (strawpoll.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was wondering, with all the different Lemmy clients and frontends, what/which out of these do people actually use? To answer this, I made a poll if anyone wants to fill it out, and I tried to put every client I could find.

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[+] Izzy -14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Developers should make money. Just not with ads.

[–] lazycouchpotato 18 points 1 year ago

You can pay one time to remove the ads, or sign up for Sync's Ultra subscription which provides additional features like OCR in images and text translation.

Once you do so, the ad library is not invoked at all.

[–] kmkz_ninja 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then pay for the ad free version, and you're letting them make money without ads.

If you just want to steal people's labor, then nah.

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

Then you can buy the ad-free version.

[–] Izzy -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not trying to be rude here, but please read my post. Paying to remove ads is part of the ad business model. Anyone who pays to remove ads means the developer profited from ads.

[–] Stovetop 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So in your mind, what does the business model look like for the developer? If they can't charge for their app and they can't offer it for free with ads, then what is the expectation? 100% FOSS and assume that goodwill from users will give them enough in donations?

I saw in your comment you are in favor of charging for the app, but how is the ad free version not exactly that? It's a paid app for those who want that but it's a free app for those who don't mind ads. It just seems needlessly nitpicky for that to be the point of contention here.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You do know that there are a dozen other apps that don't charge anything, don't you? Sync is the only one that costs money. It's the only one that has ads.

[–] Stovetop 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure, and that's great! There are so many good no-cost, ad-free Lemmy apps out there. And I suppose that's what leaves me confused when people get upset because just one app happens to be monetized. With so many viable alternatives, why make this the hill to die on?

People who donate their time and expertise to provide something for free are admirable, but it's the nature of the beast called capitalism that makes that option not feasible for everyone. When people need to afford food and rent, and an app might be someone's primary income, there should never be an expectation that someone offer something for free, just an appreciation when they do.

[–] Carighan 2 points 1 year ago

So basically the solution is hobbyist apps only?

[–] kmkz_ninja 2 points 1 year ago

It's also the best hands-down. If you want to use a worse free app, that's fine. I haven't paid for Sync for Lemmy, and I deal with 1 ad every 5 pages or so. I'm not that sensitive.