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[–] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 52 points 1 year ago (5 children)

God forbid you have to pay for stuff.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God forbid you ~~have to~~ can pay for stuff if you want.

It's a third party app. One of many. With an optional purchase to support the dev. Honestly...

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

$20 one time for a well developed app that I use multiple hours a day is inexpensive.

I pay almost as much to multiple streaming services PER MONTH for a shitty experience and sometimes not a completely ad-free experience.

Anyway, in all honesty I chose the $1.99/mo because it gives the dev $24/yr into perpetuity. I also donate to instances. I also use Connect and Jerboa and Liftoff. It's whatever.

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I doubt anyone who says this has donated to their Lemmy instance.

The truth is, humans try to justify their purchases. You didn't want to pau for Sync, you would have happily used it for free.

You want to feel good for having paid for Sync.

[–] DV8@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I paid for sync for Reddit, I donated to my Lemmy instance and I'll pay for Sync for Lemmy once I decide for myself whether I take the subscription, simply ad free or one time payment for ultra. As there's still fixes to the pricing going on I'll wait out for that

I guess I'm biased with paying for software since I work at a company that makes software it also offers in its' own SaaS platform. I literally maintain the infrastructure so I'm intimately familiar with those costs. I appreciate anyone who offers software and service for free. But there's always a cost and if you want premium service you'll need to pay for it.

That is ofcourse another justification and easy one since paying for sync is almost nothing to me. I do hope the free Sync keeps being a good alternative for anyone who wants to try it.

[–] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I don't even use sync

[–] aetrix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't want to feel good. I DO feel good. The truth is there would be no need to justify anything were it not for all the FOSS zealots throwing shade instead of just minding their business. Stop worrying about whether we feel good, and start thinking about why you want others to feel bad.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God forbid you have to pay for stuff.

But reddit asking to be paid for use of their API was the end of the world for these devs lol

[–] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

No, reddit demanded ludicrously high fees at barely 30 days notice. It gave nobody any time at all to figure out alternative monetization strategies. Many of the third party apps had expressed their willingness to pay, but that was just absurd