I saw an earlier post that showed Lemmy's recent rapid growth followed by a plateau and then slight decline. My feeling is that there is a very LOUD minority of Lemmy users that are trying to act as self-anointed gatekeepers and they're bringing the platform down as a direct consequence. It makes the platform look petty and small to new and existing users alike. If the top posts are continually about shaming other users then this platform isn't going to last. Let's focus on building communities and having interesting conversations rather than one upping each other.
145This whining is so pathetic.
88Hey OP why don't you start by sharing your donation receipts to Lemmy?
69Who let spez make a Lemmy account?
57Why would people do this? We want the hughest amount of users we can, and for most people to believe in FOSS or even copyleft philosophy, but this just pushes people away. Just use whatever app you like best and maybe donate to incentivize the app you believe in. But to just relenlessly mock non-FOSS apps only hurts the community and doesn't foster growth.
52And this kind of idiocy is why I'm glad there's a user block
47Damn. This comment section...
Reddit left a lot of y'all really insecure and easily triggered. Anyone would think OP threatened your mother's life or something.
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35This is such an annoying opinion.
The sync app dev is charging for a product. They know they have a market, albeit narrow. The income will be chunky and consistent.
The Lemmy devs provide a free platform and ask for donations. They know they have a market. It's enormous. The income is gratuity.
Neither party should be surprised about who is raking in how much cash or why. I'm sure they're not.
No user should be confused about why both parties are doing what they're doing. No one should be confused about how it's going for them. But for some reason y'all won't stfu about it.
It's just so asinine.
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32I've been a long time Sync user and paid for everything he asked when it was Reddit. I'm $5 a month for my instance - startrek.website.
Haven't yet kicked in for Lemmy Sync. I feel good about sending some cash to the dev, but don't love subscriptions and the lifetime payment of $100 is a little too rich for me.
18So dumb
16Voyager for the win
15lmao are you for real, if you don't like it just use one of the other apps or just use it and don't pay for it all of this complaining about it is just pathetic
15Mans gotta eat. Sent from Sync for Lemmy.
14Honestly why would I pay so much when I can use Summit for free? I don't mind supporting developers but 20$ is quite pricy. And the other price option are imho nuts. I paid for pro version of Boost for Reddit 4$, that's reasonable, maybe upto 10$. It's just an app for viewing content. It's not groundbreaking program or game.. And if you multiple the price x sales, the developers will make money anyway.
13is this complaining about sync or complaining about people not donating to other developers?
11I'm donating to lemmy.world and using sync free. I wanted to supper sync too, but the price is too much.
10Could always run his own Lemmy server for Sync users, I guess. Could take the load off some of the others.
9It would be unnecessary if Lemmy's web UI was actually reasonable. As it is, every single time I open the app, I have to log in again, then refresh the page to see anything at all. The news feed is paginated rather than endless scroll. When I press the back button on a comment thread, it takes me back to the page before the one I was looking at, so I lose my place. It's borderline unusable.
So I guess I'll give my ad eyeballs to the app that actually works.
9good one but I'm using sync and my money isn't going anywhere
8I prefer donating money to my Lemmy instance. it really helps them pay monthly VPS bills.
7I totally agree!
!This comment was possible through Sync. Sync "Why? Because fuck you, that's why"!<
Edit: my old shit posting methods don't work here :'(
5I'm using connect for Lemi currently
4Alright your meme worked.
I already bought Sync, but I'm on lemmy every day, and my instance doesn't accept donations. May as well pitch in a little bit.
3I know I'm probably in the minority here but.... I'm a desk jockey.
I don't use Lemmy on a handheld. I didn't use Reddit that way either. The web interface works well enough for me, or rather whatever lemmy.ca uses is good when set to vaporwave-light. Try the different themes, some are better than others.
The pagination though... it's a little short for my taste but I prefer it over doomscrolling.
3No, my data is not tha big
1Don't you think the Sync dev might also be supporting the Lemmy devs?
1Just download from mobilism and support the dev when possible, and the lemmy and foss client devs too
-1Sync isn't even good. I hate how you have to tap on "exactly" the right spot on a post to see the comments. Drives me insane.
In the meantime I've been alternating between Infinity and Voyager (the APK version). Neither are perfect but at least navigation isn't as finicky. I miss Relay.
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is sync?