WillyWonksters

PewPew Live.

I can almost guarantee that your payment of 15x the normal amount would still be too little versus how many versions will be compiled and distributed for free with premium features enabled.

That depends on how many people feel the same as me, and I know how we could find out.

While it seems to have fallen out of favor, crowdfunding is excellent at helping to resolving that kind of uncertainty.

@ljdawson, please consider how much it would be worth to you, and start a campaign. Go open-source If the target is reached.

To be clear, I don't expect it. I'll be happy either way to see tools developed that encourage the use of Lemmy over reddit.

Being open-source would be an additional value proposition that I, and maybe many others, would happily pay for. I use Jerboa, and will probably continue to use it.

Maybe this is not apples-to-apples, but my favorite audio-book player has separate free and paid versions only differentiated by the presence of dark mode. It's such a trivial thing to paywall that it comes across to me as a respectful petition for generosity. I bought the paid version and then gave multiple tips through the in-app purchase.

And if you didn't know, that comes from Pop!_OS, which is configured for tiling out the box.

What's even cooler is that they (System76) are working on their own desktop environment from the ground up which makes tiling even better!

Yes. Doctorow also talked a lot about platform economics in this recent book-tour interview.