I used sync for reddit for a decade. No way in hell I’m paying $20 for the ad-free upgrade. Explain how lemmy which is months old and a minute fraction of the size of reddit, should cost me more to browse ad-free than reddit? It’s mind boggling that we’re in the age where asking $20 for a 3rd party social media app is being defended as reasonable.
you aren’t paying for volume of content available, that would only make sense if you were subscribing directly to reddit or lemmy as you would with netflix, disney etc
revenue goes to the app dev, and sync for lemmy and sync for reddit have i would presume, identical development and maintenance costs.
your logic is like saying that fuel should be cheaper for a 1.4l mini than it is for a ferrari
That said, I do think £18.99 lifetime just to remove ads is a bit extreme, its certainly not affordable for me. That’s more than a year of Ultra without the extra features. I think sweetspot for “pro” edition that has no ads certainly would have been sub £10, especially when im gonna be a large volume of users have dns that removes ads anyway and really the “pro” is just a “one time donation” kinda thing
Yeah, I wasn’t seeing the ads on the free beta because of my dns settings but immediately bought the remove ads version when it became available to support the developer. I bought Sync Pro for Reddit ages ago for a very small amount and used it every day for years. So happy to have the one time option as I am not a fan of the subscription model.
My issue with lemmy being young isn’t the lack of content, it’s that he’s selling a “lifetime” option on something that’s barely been around long enough to know we’ll keep using it/it’ll be around in a year.
I’m not defending Sync (I don’t even use it, I’m more of a Slide/Infinity guy; I’m just here to see how other Reddit app ports are doing), but Lemmy is not “months old”. It’s been a thing since early 2019, the recent Reddit drama just gave it a massive push bringing its userbase from negligible to tiny.
Right yah I felt like that was probably the case when I was typing that honestly, that’s my bad, I guess I should’ve said only really started taking off months ago, and is still rather small.
It’s perfectly fine to use the app and only pay when you feel like it, say you feel when the Fediverse grows to be fun enough. Or alternatively never pay and just use the free version. Or use something like Voyager / wefwef which is a fantastic app in its own right. You have the choice.
$20 really isn’t a lot when it’s an app you use everyday. If you don’t spend enough time on Lemmy then yes, it may not make sense to buy but if you do it’s really a no-brainer.
Also I would argue Apple / Google’s whole app store pricing model when it first started out really devalued good software. $1.99 for a lifetime support of an app? Come on. $20 is reasonable.
I used sync for reddit for a decade. No way in hell I’m paying $20 for the ad-free upgrade. Explain how lemmy which is months old and a minute fraction of the size of reddit, should cost me more to browse ad-free than reddit? It’s mind boggling that we’re in the age where asking $20 for a 3rd party social media app is being defended as reasonable.
you aren’t paying for volume of content available, that would only make sense if you were subscribing directly to reddit or lemmy as you would with netflix, disney etc
revenue goes to the app dev, and sync for lemmy and sync for reddit have i would presume, identical development and maintenance costs.
your logic is like saying that fuel should be cheaper for a 1.4l mini than it is for a ferrari
That said, I do think £18.99 lifetime just to remove ads is a bit extreme, its certainly not affordable for me. That’s more than a year of Ultra without the extra features. I think sweetspot for “pro” edition that has no ads certainly would have been sub £10, especially when im gonna be a large volume of users have dns that removes ads anyway and really the “pro” is just a “one time donation” kinda thing
Yeah, I wasn’t seeing the ads on the free beta because of my dns settings but immediately bought the remove ads version when it became available to support the developer. I bought Sync Pro for Reddit ages ago for a very small amount and used it every day for years. So happy to have the one time option as I am not a fan of the subscription model.
My issue with lemmy being young isn’t the lack of content, it’s that he’s selling a “lifetime” option on something that’s barely been around long enough to know we’ll keep using it/it’ll be around in a year.
I completely agree that it should be sub $10.
I’m not defending Sync (I don’t even use it, I’m more of a Slide/Infinity guy; I’m just here to see how other Reddit app ports are doing), but Lemmy is not “months old”. It’s been a thing since early 2019, the recent Reddit drama just gave it a massive push bringing its userbase from negligible to tiny.
Right yah I felt like that was probably the case when I was typing that honestly, that’s my bad, I guess I should’ve said only really started taking off months ago, and is still rather small.
It’s perfectly fine to use the app and only pay when you feel like it, say you feel when the Fediverse grows to be fun enough. Or alternatively never pay and just use the free version. Or use something like Voyager / wefwef which is a fantastic app in its own right. You have the choice.
$20 really isn’t a lot when it’s an app you use everyday. If you don’t spend enough time on Lemmy then yes, it may not make sense to buy but if you do it’s really a no-brainer.
Also I would argue Apple / Google’s whole app store pricing model when it first started out really devalued good software. $1.99 for a lifetime support of an app? Come on. $20 is reasonable.