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Please put your money where your mouth is. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sync Ultra is a very reasonable $17 a YEAR. YouTube Premium is reaching that per MONTH. I have sync downloaded and it was the first thing I did. Thanks j for the beautiful app.

EDIT: There are many counterpoints and actually good discussion happening down below. Even if you don't agree, thanks for showing me a different perspective!

If you want to support Sync, make sure to support the Lemmy Devs and your instance holders as well!

*This post was made early in the day before the update.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I hate it when people see a $100+ price-tag for a lifetime subscription and complain. A OTP is literally a user that cannot be charged again, and if lemmy keeps growing, it will provide value for many years.

I used sync pro for almost 10 years and paid something like $5 for it, such pricing is unsustainable for the developer and I totally understand the subscription model

Dude has the best app for lemmy and provides a good boost to the ecosystem which benefits all. Development time costs (a lot) of money and the dev has every right to charge what he wants.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Shut up and take my money!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The difference is I use YouTube and YouTube Music for hours a day. I'm on Lemmy maybe an hour a day. I'm not paying any subscription for a free service. I wouldn't even pay for YouTube Premium, but I'm an original Google Music adopter, and their music algorithm really knows what I like.

I gave up Netflix, so I can stomach the cost increase this one time. Maybe my mood will change when the price increase hits later this year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not paying any subscription for a free service

You aren't. That would be your Lemmy instances patreon (or similar). I hope you support your instance because otherwise this entire service could fail.

You're paying for the slick presentation and app features with Sync. I'm a software engineer. It is difficult work. Time consuming. Risky as well given this (sync) is literally the dev's full time job.

That's the beauty of third party apps; you can find a best match for you. But there will almost always be a quality and feature gap between people doing it for a hobby and people doing it for a career. That is why Apollo beat basically every iOS client. That is also why Sync beat the other Android reddit clients for me. And it has already beaten the free ones for Lemmy in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's.the principle of it.

Sync's dev is being greedy. Most of the reason why I left Reddit was because they were being greedy.

I'm not supporting that shit.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The idea of buying something when I haven't used it yet is kind of ridiculous, especially when the only option is an auto-renewing subscription service. If I could pay for a single month without having to figure out how and when I can cancel or it was a single purchase, I'd be more likely to give it a shot. Signing up for a subscription without knowing if the product is good just doesn't make sense to me

Add that to the fact that I have to pay to get the same no ads experience as many other free apps, that kinda rubs me the wrong way

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I'm still paying my sync for reddit fee and I bought pro in 2012. I also subbed to the lemmy variant today.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

First thing I did, it's amazing

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Done.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck this ad invested, data collecting, closed source piece of shit. Use infinity instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, fuck this. Free is better than $17. Better spent on a shitcoin bet.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So speaking of that, it seems like you have to pay per device. I payed for ultra on my phone, but it doesn't seem to carry over to my tablet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think you need to pay per device. I purchased it on one phone and was able to click the restore purchase (subscription?) on a second phone and it activated it on the second phone.

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