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Relying on the donation of others to the Lemmy dev and instances to make profits is way more greedy. It is even parasitic on one side.
People not donating is a thing but they don’t make profits. It’s a huge difference on the greedy scale.
Relying on the donation of others to the Lemmy dev and instances to make profits is way more greedy. It is even parasitic on one side.
People not donating is a thing but they don’t make profits. It’s a huge difference on the greedy scale.
Everything should be like this no only game, also software, apps, etc.
Things in the world aren’t free.
Did I write that? I explicitly wrote he can keep 1/3. It doesn’t make it free at all, knowing the other 2/3 going to the Lemmy devs and instances. Nothing is free in this model. It’s about the fairness.
1/3 isn’t arbitrary. You have 3 parties here, the app dev, the lemmy devs and the lemmy instances. The first relies entirely on the second and the third, who are in a donation model. Without these two, the first is at best useless, therefore giving 2/3 to the other parties is fine. Cutting the revenues of the app in 3 for each party is fair.
Sync fans in the comments: Yes, I bought Sync and love it
This is what people said me that would not happens. But, I knew people will think by paying for Sync they will pay for Lemmy (devs and instances).
If the sync dev would be fair and not greedy, he would give at least the 2/3 of his revenues from the app to the Lemmy devs and the instances. Otherwise, I guess instances should be able to block these apps.
I understand everyone need to earn something. And keeping max 1/3 is good.
People need to understand and in priority the people coming from Reddit that Lemmy is not reddit. Reddit earns money with ads and investors. They could inject ads through the APIs and states in the usage terms that 3rd party devs could not remove them. They didn’t do it.
Lemmy is a complet other story. Lemmy rely on donations. So, when someone donates to the Lemmy devs and/or instances, the dev of a paid app is making money on this donation. Without the Lemmy devs and the instances, the paid app would not exist at all. It’s not fair at all to not share the revenue of these apps.
These paid apps and their devs are at best predators and at least parasitics.
But, the dev doesn’t comply with gdpr. It’s opt-out by default what is not the case.
So to access the payment, you have to share private and personal datas. This isn’t fine at all. He should offer the option to buy without being tracked.
And at the beginning, it was like 1$. When you have the full history, it looks like another raise of the price.
It was 1$ at the beginning for the pro version.
Sync looks like the apple, Tesla/musk of some.
If the dev was fair, he would split the revenues of all the models with the instances to keep them alive. The free API call doesn’t matter if the instances close.
You can mod sync for reddit so it does work.
Where was that implied at all?
Reading all these threads about Sync makes me think about fanboys. The critics aren’t welcome.
4.99 was when he raised the price. It was cheaper.
I understand the fact Lemmy has a smaller user basse. The new price is a bit too much. With a small user base, the competition is greater.
I care as having it or not is two different situations. It had a layer of protection without it.
The issue for me is having the code. If I pay, I want an app without the ads/trackers code.
It was something like $3.89 for the pro back in the days.
They was an iOS beta of I remember correctly.
Are you in the EU? I was curious and I don’t have ads in Europe.
Fedilab works great for me.