Pretty much title!
I’d love to support the developer, but I don’t feel like dropping $100 right now.
It’s a cash grab. The ad revenue supports the developer. The $20/year is just a better bulk deal for the devs because they arent subject to the whims of people buying ads. The only interesting bit for me is if the $100 app lasts 5 years in its current form or if they’ll try to charge more for features down the line.
Just going off the 10+ year history we had with this developer on Reddit, he has operated in good faith thus far and added features to Pro without charging for it, so I don’t think he’ll do that. But who knows. You’re buying today with no future guarantees. At least this time we know there’s no central organization that can pull the rug out from under Lemmy.
$20 to get rid of ads forever on an app that you use daily is a fair price. No one gets lynched for subscribing to YouTube premium for $14/mo just to get rid of ads
Two very different things.
How so? Also Spotify Premium at $13/mo when there’s a free version supported by ads
How much does Sync pay to host all the content for users to browse? How much does Sync pay content creators for that content? How much does Sync spend on creating content for the platform?
Don’t get me wrong, I think devs should get paid for their work. If you’re happy to pay what’s being asked and see value in it, that’s great. But your comparison isn’t accurate.
Development and hosting are different expenses, but they’re still expenses. I also find it interesting that you call out the “content creators” as being on a certain level, but app creators aren’t?
Not what I said at all. Just pointing out they’re are completely different services.
Different services in the context of one service making sense to pay for and another not
Does it matter to the average user? I’m simply giving numbers to put into perspective the lengths people will go for an ad-free experience
When people buy premium, they’re not doing it to support Google’s servers, they’re paying to get rid of ads at a whopping $14 per month when they could be using the app for free
Yeah. It actually kinda does matter. Otherwise you may as well compare it to leasing a car. When you lease a car you no longer need to see ads on the train or bus.
You’re comparing the cost users are willing to pay to remove ads, but services like YouTube have to pay for things that Sync doesn’t. So the cost I might be willing to pay for YouTube Premium is different, as they’re fundamentally different products. There’s a hell of a lot more that goes into providing YouTube and Spotify, than there is to providing a UI wrapper for Lemmy.
Edit: You should be comparing the cost of Sync to other Lemmy apps. It’s interesting you jumped to a completely different service when there’s direct competitors to Sync you’ve ignored.
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Pretty sure the remove ads is lifetime not yearly (I can’t check as I’m subscribed to Ultra). I think anyway. Ultra is the subscription model.
Ultra also has a lifetime option now.
You can pay the yearly one and see how it goes in one year, it’s cheaper than ad-free and also with extra feature, more bang for the buck i’d say
Ah i had a long day and didn’t even think of that. I’ll consider it, thanks!
No probs👌
Why are there even ads in the first place? No other app has them
Because @ljdawson is working on it full time and dude’s gotta eat
What financial model would you like sync to operate under?
Idk, maybe the subscription they also sell?
But that would exclude people who don’t want to or can’t afford the subscription.
This way LJDawson is letting people choose.
Or you can just use one of the other various apps
Connect is great
Connect is great.
Sync is great.
Just let people browse in peace. This has been the worst week Lemmy has had because it’s all bitching and counter bitching about the bitching.
I think the dev pays for Imgur and other media hosting site APIs so that is also a factor. No other app displays media as integrated as Sync.
I just tried uploading a picture and it was uploaded to my home instance for sharing. I do not see where imgur comes in the equation.
I also want to support but the price is ridiculous.
It’s by far the best app but lifetime ultra for 120+ dollars? That’s way too much.
$50 dollars is a reasonable price for this.
I think he factored in 5-10 years of server costs by lifetime members and also his own price which he thinks is reasonable.
