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I paid for Sync to toss some money to a dev responsible for the #1 used app on any of my phones for the last 10 years. I paid a criminally low amount back then for how much I used the app.

It happened to also come with ad removal, but I block those and trackers on my network anyway.

Not sure what you’re referring to, but I’m using it on a Pixel 7 without issue.

https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

For what it’s worth the dev said today he’s working on regional pricing. Comment here to get your country priced out sooner

I should have thought to mention it. I’ll update my comment 👍

All you should need to do is set the App Source URL to https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy/releases/ and then toggle on Include prereleases. Once they get a full release out you can toggle it off

I’ve been using Obtainium instead and loaded Infinity through it this morning. You can also have it pull from f-droid repos instead of GitHub if you want when that hits

Edit: Currently the app is in prerelease so you’ll need to toggle that option. Once they have a full release you can toggle it back off.

It seems we have some fundamental differences in opinion here. I don’t think it’s pissing in anybody’s face for a full time dev to make money off a free offering of their product. The app has never had ads for me since I block them at the DNS level. I still paid for it to support an app that’s going to dominate my screen on time just like it did on Reddit.

Like you said, the rest of the apps don’t currently have ads. A lot of their devs also said they’d never have them. That’s great for them. I don’t how many of them do this at a full time job either. Or how long they’ll continue to support their apps under their current models (aside from Jerboa which is developed by one of the Lemmy devs)

It would be great if Sync could rely only on donos, but the amount of people bitching about a one time $20 purchase being too expensive or expecting to transfer their $1 purchase of Sync for Reddit 9 years ago to Lemmy has me thinking that’s just a pipe dream.

If it’s not worth it to you go ahead and use a different app. It’s still not pissing in anybody’s face no matter how much you don’t like it.

Also worth noting at the time they said it was temporary and due to the lack of sufficient mod tools available in Lemmy. If mod tools improve that could change. But yes, right now it’s definitely something to think about with world being a massive instance that m with a lot of larger communities.

I don’t agree with the premise that you can only charge for one or the other though. The Sync dev has a track record of putting out a very performant app for close to a decade. A one time ad removal fee and an optional subscription is pretty reasonable IMO.

I get the philosophical problems you have with it though. In the end I’m still using it because I paid like $5 none years ago and got way more than my money’s worth with it on Reddit. The ad unlock is more expensive here, but it’s probably an early adopter tax with the user base here being a tiny fraction of Reddit.

As for Apollo, I’m not sure how many Apple users pay for apps but if I had to guess they probably outnumber android users easily.

It also feels dirty to use an app only available in the Apple ecosystem as a paragon of open source ideals. That’s a pretty adaptive Stallman meter.

What’s the connection between code quality and adding ads to make money?

You can also throw the releases page URL into obtainium and toggle to include pre-releases and it’ll notify you of any updates/install them.

Sorry I’m not sure what you’re saying. There’s 3 or more distinct groups here:

1. Lemmy devs, responsible for Lemmy itself + they run lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml
2. Server admins, responsible for whatever instance you’re browsing from and whatever instance the post is on (I use lemmy.dbzer0.com, you’re on sh.itjust.works, these are two different admins/teams of admins)
3. App devs, in Sync’s case ljdawson

Are you looking for a single donation to go to all of these groups?

I’m not sure how that would work with those being two separate sets of developers + instance admins. I don’t even think you can do instance admins + Lemmy devs in one place.

For your first question, the one time ad free only seems to remove ads. Ultra gets extra features, those are listed if you scroll down on ultra page

There’s both a 1-time and a sub option

This, but lemmynsfw 🙈

Assuming you mean this, to hide parent text when collapsed, yes!

Settings shortcut: Comment options > Collapse parent

IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE HOME

Those things matter to you and me but we’re in the minority. As long as Johnny Gamer and Grandma Facebooker can still do their preferred activities in Windows there’s a close to zero percent chance they’ll put the effort into making the switch.