What constitutes Usage Data. Is it sharing the posts I view, communities I subscribe to etc?

Does paying for a premium version stop this data being collected?

  • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7510·
    1 year ago

    Funding your project with donations is just not a realistic long-term goal. This is why so many instances fold up shop in just a couple of weeks as their servers are overloaded and no one donates money to keep it up.

    Capitalism is a problem but it doesn’t mean everything has to be socialism. There can be an in-between.

    • glockenspiel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      213·
      1 year ago

      Capitalism is a problem but it doesn’t mean everything has to be socialism. There can be an in-between.

      It’s not even that to be honest. Socialism is characterized by worker ownership and operation of companies primarily. LJ is a sole proprietor exploiting nobody, not earning a wage via labor and not having to work because he under pays others to work for him. He’s just a worker like the rest of us.

      I definitely agree that donations is not a viable long term path. Maybe in a different economic model. People need to be realistic. The general arguments they are making against Sync in favor of FOSS apps can also be made against them using FOSS apps by the FLOSS folks. People should pay if they can. And use a free third party app if they can’t, or don’t like how sync works.

      I really don’t get the hate people are putting out there over this. This is why third party apps build strong ecosystems. You can find what you want.

    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Even if it was socialism, that doesn’t mean money doesn’t exist lol, there would have to be some kind of tax added on for everyone to support the product/project/whatever.

      We have socialized fire departments in America, does that mean they don’t get paid and work for free? Nah, but you don’t get a bill before they put the fire out on your house either