It was 15 euros earlier today, what happened?

As much fun as Sync is (and while I appreciate creators want to get paid)...

We're talking like $15-30(!). That's steep for a phone app. All this money stuff is pushing me back to Connect and Jerboa.

I wish Sync well. But I think I'm done with it already.

I would pay extra to not have to hear people complain about a choice no one is forcing them to make

Do what works for you, and let other people do the same

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This post lead to me to send 20 USD to the Jerboa/Lemmy devs.

Greed.

I signed up for a year of Ultra yesterday, more as a show of support. I'm already regretting it after seeing how many tiers of pricing are now being shoved out.

I get the dev has to eat, but this is completely going against everything Lemmy is supposed to be about, while costing significantly more than its Reddit counterpart.

While not necessary, it would have been nice if there was a small discount for Ultra subscribers of Sync for Reddit. I got just over 1 year of usage out of my 'lifetime' purchase. A gesture, even a small one, would have been nice.

I've just been soured over this whole thing, tbh.

Between the ads, pricing and tracking I'm just going to stick to Liftoff, it works really well.

The price is very reasonable if you realize the economy of scale is not there yet. There is only about 100,000 monthly active Lemmy users right now. Even if 1% of those users bought the app at $20, the dev only net ~$14,000 for working on his app full time. The calculus will surely different if Lemmy have 10x more active users which will allow the dev to lower the app pricing while still sustaining himself.

Use Liftoff

Inflation

AUD $33.99. No thanks.

There's no ads in Lemmy.

I got it for 15. Is it expensive for ad removal? Yes. Is it too expensive? No, for me personally no. I wanted to support the dev and I did it. Also It's the only app I am going to use until Lemmy is no more.

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Simple solution. Get DNS66 from the F-droid site (not the Play Store version that wants a subscription). That takes care of the ads in all my apps. It inserts itself like a VPN, filtering all Internet traffic, blocking the ad servers.

Honestly I think we all need to relax. Lemmy is a niche app that's rising, and it's one guy. I paid for ultra since it was cheaper than the pay for no ads option.

$29AUD or whatever it was per year for ultra is literally paying a dev once a year for their work, and to keep it updated and build features.

The outrage is really ridiculous considering how quickly the app was built, how decent the experience is and the realities of the real world right now.

Pay the cash, you're not going to remember it by the time you're paid next. For the job you did, producing something. Like this guy did.

Imho 15 eur is actually a fair price. In my country you can get a McDonald's meal for that price that satisfies me once whereas Sync satisfies me everyday 😄. And 25 still seems okay to me for a nice app like this. I can imagine a lot of effort is put in this app. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

It's been $33.99 AUD since it was released.

WTF is this in CAD!?

Just to check, when it was 15, was that possibly the annual cost for Ultra? Whereas this is the lifetime cost for removing ads only.

It's 21,99€ for me 🧐

I can confirm the price with a bit of variation 21.99€ for me.

I'm soso happy to pay $2/mo for Ultra, very cheap for what it gives me. Miles better than any other app, keep it up!

Punishing us for asking for regional pricing.

Where do you see that? I have not found this option at all.

I tried both Liftoff and Thunfer but I prefer Infinity.

The price seems to vary quite a bit depending on the location. Probably something on google play's end?

Inflation, duh.

Greed, probably.

Does the premium version remove trackers or just stops ads appearing?

I think the developer should have just made the app ad-free, and charged for features people will want.

It's not a feature to remove ads. It's just normal. At least for many of us Linux users, we never see ads since we have so many ways to combat them.

But yes, if Lemmy starts to become very popular, it will pull in everyone who uses windows and has ads and shit in their face all day. They are used to it. Maybe they will pay.

These fools have no idea how to make money. That's all.

It's getting ridiculous everyday

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ITT: People don't know that FOSS donations are a thing and also very common. Defends app that injects ads with trackers onto a FOSS platform.

Hilarious watching people complain about an app that gives you a CHOICE to buy it if you want to. I really hope the dev is laughing at you guys with me because this is some really low IQ shit.

For the amount of hours a week I spent in Sync for Reddit and the price I paid then for removing ads, I feel that 20 euros is cheap to remove ads in Sync for Lemmy and would have paid more.

However I understand the price might feel steep up front for new users. An initial trial without ads for a short while might be a solution, where users only start to see ads after using it for a bit so they can test run the app without being disturbed by ads.

I've seen 4 posts in the last two days that have solidified the fact I will never even TRY Sync. Dev seems like a real scumbag. I'm pretty happy with Liftoff so far.