If you pay the 1 time and removal then no ads, no subscription, and then there's no tracking either. It's only part of the Google Ads which isn't used if you remove ads.
Haven't tried it but I just decided to put a recurring donation for aeharding on Github, Sync for Lemmy's tracking-infused ad model and the pricing for the ad-free versions just convinced me that we need to support open-source devs even more.
I find it sad that lots of people seem to be excited to pay $20 for a closed-source app but very few supported the devs that have been developing the apps that carried us on their backs until now for free.
Voyager has only 22 sponsors right now and hasn't even reached his $250/month goal on Github, while Sync for Lemmy is already asking for $100 for a OTP for the Ultra version.
EDIT: aeharding also just added a Liberapay in the sidebar!
Voyager has only 22 sponsors right now and hasn’t even reached his $250/month goal on Github, while Sync for Lemmy is already asking for $100 for a OTP for the Ultra version.
I think this boils down to two reasons:
I hope this post didn't come of as a bit to dark, my view points especially on the community/developer relationship in a donation/sponsor context versus subscription context could be way off.
Curious on your thoughts (love the work on voyager 😄 )
Edit Just wanted to link photoprism (a opensource ai powered photos app) subscription policy (I think it does put a interesting case on subscriptions versus donations).
https://www.photoprism.app/membership/faq
Pricing (not sponsoring them or anything just as a point of reference):
TIL I can give people money on github, also didn't realise I already have github account so that made it easy
Trying Voyager now, installed the app on my android via Firefox. It's nice and simple and I really like the look and feel of the UI, both when posts are compact and large.
My only complaint, which is true for all the FOSS Lemmy apps, is that the appearance settings, really all settings, are global for the app and not based on the account you are browsing with. That is the one nice feature of Sync that is stopping me from sticking with any of the FOSS apps. Having my account on lemm.ee open straight to All Communities with compact posts and NSFW blurred, while having my ...other Lemmy account.. open straight to Local Communities with large posts and no NSFW blurring is a really nice feature of Sync.
You may try Infinity for Lemmy. It's a fork of Infinity for Reddit and it is actively being developed.
The UI is not good
But at least it is functional, smooth and loads faster.
They have a one time purchase option but, it’s expensive
I'm using free apps and I donate. Although I feel as though I need to donate to the instances more. Can only imagine their costs going higher as they get more traffic.
Actually most are doing fine/not seeing a huge influx anymore. Beehaw is even downsizing. The rexxit bump is largely past and the usage is finding it's new level. That plus version improvements is reducing load.
That said, nothing wrong with donating to an instance you like! I donate to the ones that disclose their financials. I like the transparency and helps me assess if my donation is fair/equitable.
I am curious how sync is going to implement push notifications (which requires a subscription). The dev either is going to have to wait for web push to be added (which doesn't seem to be a priority for lemmy devs as they are a bit swamped already). Or he will need to rely on rapid polling like memmy (scaling would be messy down the line).
Yeah. I can only feel home here. The clean interface, the everything-I-need settings, the stability
My only problem is the long delay in switching pages. I can bear that to some degree. Maybe my phone is not powerful enough
Yeah, same boat here. Was a longtime Sync Pro user back on reddit, and saw LJ as a dev worth supporting, but I'm not entirely on board with the changes on the privacy end. Maybe if that stuff changes I'll go back.
It's pretty much the same as it was on the free Sync tier.
Quite. That's why I used to use Pro, however. And ultra as a regular subscription is... a bit out of my price range. I've heard that there's an ad free only tier priced lower, but I couldn't find it in the app, so... shrug
I'll probably come back to it eventually after post-launch flux ends and such, but we'll see.
There's a lifetime ad free tier for 20 bucks. It was on the sidebar for me.
I guess after a few months here we forgot about entities that literally only care about money and data harvesting.
Why would anyone use sync over Infinity?
An open source app that has always been every bit as good, if not better.
I would rather give that money to the host of my local instance.
Because I like Sync better and value is subjective. Besides, the dev is super responsive and active, Sync pushes updates very frequently with fixes and community requested features.
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