Subscription models for an app that’s not hosting anything is just the dev wanting a constant revenue stream, no matter how they try to word it. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by spiritedpause@sh.itjust.works to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Subscription models only make sense for an app/service that have recurring costs. In the case of Lemmy apps, the instances are the ones with recurring hosting costs, not the apps.

If an app doesn’t have recurring hosting costs, it only makes sense to have one up front payment and then maybe in app purchases to pay for new features going forward

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[-] erre@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

Tracking is for ads only, when ads are disabled then so is the tracking.

https://lemmy.world/comment/1991550

[-] SWIM@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Link is broken

[-] erre@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think there's something wrong with lemmy.world, this is the post. The developer posts to confirm the tracking is turned off. Sorry the direct link didn't work.

https://lemmy.world/post/2538321

Edit: a federated comment link: https://programming.dev/comment/1561763

[-] RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

It's wild what lemmy.world has done. If your referrer is lemmy.world itself, a click off their web page, it loads the comment. But if you come from another lemmy instance or just put the link directly into your browser address bar, they reject it with ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE - I can't recall having seen a website do this to try and prevent attacks.

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I also have the same problem... BUT it happens if simply try to open a comment on a new window using the link.

[-] RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

several people have confirmed it... I haven't seen them explain how exactly, but they seem convinced it is causing crashes so they blocked it. Lemmy is practically in the realm of voodoo PostgreSQL at this point. Since April or May it's been scaling very poorly as data gets added.

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, that's what happens when you go for PostgreSQL without much experience I guess. But it works.. mostly :) I don't get it why the database would f* up the application itself in this case, its a simple "get by id" operation...

[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip -5 points 1 year ago

Which there is no way to verify as the app is closed source. So it's just a speculation.

[-] Ducks@ducks.dev 10 points 1 year ago

You're the one speculating. You can analyze your network traffic to ensure it disabled, and as people have done and verified that it is disabled. Those are standard Google Ad trackers. Any app with ads has them, like Sync for Reddit did and Sync for Lemmy does.

[-] Aux@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You can always download the APK and decompile it. Closed source does not exist in real world.

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