Sync for Lemmy

With that price I feel like the dev has 0 faith in lemmy getting very big and feels like they need to capitalize on the currently few users to make back costs. I mean, not even an early access price considering its in beta still

God damn that’s expensive.

Lol. I uh. Guess I didn't want a one time payment option after all.

I liked the app so far but WHAT THE FUCK. I would be willing to pay 10$ to remove ads but not fucking 100$. Subscription base services are the cancer of technology.

at that price you could afford the reddit api.. not that i'd want to

wow isn't that like 6 years of subscription? so expensive

$50 wouldn't have nearly as much of a negative reaction. $100 is awfully steep for a community as small as Lemmy.

But I'm glad the yearly sub is only $17, so I may get that instead.

My last app, Now for Reddit, charged $4 to unlock all the features of the app, including no ads.

Nope

Just use FOSS apps for Lemmy. There are plenty good ones. Thanks to all devs and contributors!

So I'm not an app developer, so I might be completely off base, but I don't really understand a lot of the arguments against this.

Firstly, there's an ad free one time cost that in my opinion seems very fair. Secondly, as I'm looking through the feature for Ultra, most of the features seem to be things that require an external server. I'm not sure how push notifications work so I can't comment on it, but syncing settings across devices for example doesn't happen at the instance level. That kind of thing could only be done through a server owned by the dev. However, it is very likely that the dev doesn't own a server, and is instead renting on a VPS, which is a subscription for them. So in order to provide these particular services, the dev has to pay a subscription. So would it not make sense that those that enjoy the benefits of this subscription the dev pays, also have to pay a subscription? In my mind that simply seems fair, in order to support a dev that has clearly put a lot of time and effort into making a great app.

The user base for Lemmy is significantly smaller than Reddit. The dev needs a smaller number of people to be able to support the operating costs of the app (as well as the wellbeing of the dev) which means that necessarily a different (and steeper) pricing model would be necessary.

I do not think it's fair to claim that Lemmy API access is free and therefore there are no operating costs, because there's more to the app than API calls. It is indeed correct that API access is free, which seems to me to be the precise reason why there exists a free version of the app that you don't have to pay for in the first place. All API calls within the app are free. There are no paywalled Lemmy API calls, at least from what I can tell. But again if I'm wrong I'll admit it if someone can inform me.

I know I'm cheap and I know this app is great and is a lot of work but fuck, this is expensive. Subscriptions are the worst model capitalism can offer. And the one time payment price is ridiculous, I can't afford that.

That's wild. Like man I'm impressed with Sync and think it's great but you'd have to be using it for 7 years for this to be worth it...Lemmy is so new you'd be mad to be making a gamble like this.

Even Apollo Ultra was $50, and people thought that was expensive…

Lifetime wasn't available when I subscribed. :(

I assume that's $100 USD in America?

It's expensive, but Sync is literally the best app on my phone, and has been that way for a long time. I'd consider it.

Yea no.

I feel like the dev is trying to cash out, his apps good but reddit screwed him so I do kinda understand but he's priced me out.

₹9900!!!

I bought 2 smartphones for my friends last month. Combined total cost of those was roughly ₹10200.

Or use one of the myriad of other ad-free apps?

I don't get the fanboi-ism, it didn't blow my socks off when I was on Reddit either. I used Slide and RIF.

Yikes