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Glad to see that it got approved finally. I'm going to stick with the TestFlight build until the app is no longer there just due to how rapidly it's changing, but I'm stoked to switch over once things stabilize a bit and hope that there will be subscriptions available to support app dev straight through the app in the near future.
Happy to support the developer. Just hoping for a lifetime Apollo ultra equivalent onetime payment. The subscriptions are killer but I get why we need them sometimes.
I’ll do a one-time payment gladly — I did with Apollo — but not a subscription.
I hope both options exist, but as I get to understand the ins and outs of the Fediverse and the work that goes into maintaining these systems, I'm personally leaning toward small recurring subscriptions for both my instance provider and the app I use. I'd love it if Lemmy stayed free of corporate overreach, algorithmic content manipulation, and rampant advertising. The way to accomplish that is to make sure things can operate without outside sponsorship.
Both options is the best way, I agree. Easy enough to do, at least on iOS. Let users choose.
Ditto. I’ll throw down a nice chunky one payment and would be good if a link to tip jar is placed in the app too
Same
Currently no plans for a subscription, you can tip gk though through buy me a coffee. Maybe at most we would have to start charging a very cheap subscription for push notifications. Other than that no plans to lock any kinds of features behind a paywall
That sounds more than reasonable to me, and it’s gonna be a huge deal for wider Lemmy adoption. Thank you so much, all of you!
First, thanks for your work on this app. It’s great. Obviously it’s none of our business if you choose not to monetize this app in some way. Long term though, wouldn’t it make sense to charge at least a small amount to cover your development and have money to, you know, live? People will line up to pay for a good, well developed app - just like they did with Apollo.
That’s fair, i do have a full time job as well that pays the bills, just doing this in my free time. We may explore the option in the future, who knows, but at the moment we don’t plan to.
I more meant as a way to support continued development similar to how Apollo worked. Even if "premium" users got no benefit, I'd still like to have the option of supporting continued development straight through the app store. I've tipped through the coffee site already, but that requires me to remember to do it more than once. 😂
I don’t know how they’d do it with apple tax and all but I’d love a way to support both the app developer and my instance host via an App Store subscription (I like seeing them all in one place)
That's an interesting thought. Right now I'm supporting my instance through a Patreon subscription, but I agree that having the option to have it all in one place would be nice.