I went ahead and bought a year because I want to support this project. I am hoping by the time that's due to expire, there will be non-subscription options

17 a year seems reasonable if it's an app you use daily. There are costs associated with making and maintaing app.

I bought pro back in 2013 I believe. And lifetime ultra once it came out that reddit was banning third party apps as support.

I'm not gonna do.a.subscription. I'm just not.

The dev of sync have to split the ads and subscription revenue with the instances. It would be fair like this. He donating 30% of the revenue to them. He is paid and he pays for the usage of the instances.

Youtube premium isn't the same. Youtube itself has huge server, storage, bandwidth cost and premium is paying for it. The cost of the app is a fraction of it.

On youtube, you have each second tons of new content. What I don't have inside the app. The content comes from the instances. The equivalent would be paying a subscription to the instances.

The creators receive a part of my subscription what isn't the case here.

With youtube premium, I have youtube music an additional service included.

In my opinion, the first point is the fairest. The dev splits the revenues with the instances. It would be nearer to the Youtube model.

I don't know though, I feel like giving money to an app for Lemmy would kind of be like supporting the wrong person. Especially if you haven't even donated to your instance's owner yet.

Lots of comments about the subscription. I had pro for years and had no idea the dev had switched to a subscription model. Had been anticipating the release but now.... I would gladly pay again but not though a subscription no matter how good the app is. First time I see an ad on the app I'll just go back to connect.

I'm not paying a subscription and the first ad I see I'm uninstalling it.

Sync pro was my go to for reddit, but I refuse to pay for a subscription.

first thing I did after opening

I think the cost is prohibitively high considering 99% of Reddit users have never used Lemmy before and have no idea how it works. There is a massive opportunity to soak up all those disolutioned redditors and a low entry price to kick things off over the next 6 to 12 months might have been a key way to achieve that. As it stands the cost is massive to a lot of people who will either use alternative apps or just won't even switch to Lemmy at all. You can't even submit your own posts yet. It's not prime time ready. I truly loved Sync for Reddit and have paid for Pro twice, and shown support to LJ, but I think this pricing level is a mistake.

Too late, already did

If you want something free and open source, Jeroba works great and has no trackers

Does the subscription also partly fund the instances I subscribe to (lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, etc servers)? If so then I'm onboard

I paid for ultra mainly to support the Dev. Lemmy isn't good enough for me to switch over just yet but I'll be keeping my eye on it now that Sync for Lemmy exists.

I'm not a sync user but I feel like the dev may have missed an option - pay what you want. PWYW feels almost like a donation.

Outrageous price for an app. It doesn't even provide the content. It's just an app to show it. We have completely free options. That is it's competition, not youtube. Such a strange thing to compare it to. Youtube provides the framework and code and hosts the videos. It isn't simply a frontend app.