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  • Not worth it. Plenty of free apps like Voyager that are adfree and have all the features needed.

  • I use Sync but I haven't paid for it. I turned off all the options in the cookie banner so all I see is a grey box where ads would be and you quickly just don't even see it after a lot of use.

    If it were a one off payment of like £5 I'd pay it, I bought it for Reddit, but I can't justify the cost.

    If you're a really heavy user then it might be worth it but there's so many great alternatives out there then I think it's hard to justify.

  • I pay the $2/month version. Supports the dev, and keeps an otherwise unused credit card active. And considering this is now the only form of social media and/or interacting with other people online I use, I figure it's worth two bucks a month. The same way the $15 or so I didn't post month, spread across multiple patreon accounts, is worth it to support the small handful of content creators that make the vast majority of my daily entertainment.

    I've been trying to take two stances lately. The first being the idea of "if you're not the customer, you're the product."

    And the second being the CGPGrey method. Which is basically, if an app or service is important to me, I specifically WANT it to be a paid app/service. If the app in question doesn't have a clear path to being financially viable for those making/running it, there's too much risk that the dev may eventually have to stop working on it in order to go do something else that can earn them a living.

    Or no, something being open source, or not, did not change this equation. People gotta live.

    • It would be nice if more people truly understood what you call the "CGP Grey method". So many people are so used to adblockers in combination with youtube etc. being free, that they never think of the fact that somehow the webspace and content needs to be paid for.

  • I liked Sync Pro on Reddit but there's no way I can justify the huge cost jump for a lemmy version.

    I hope lemmy does OK but it could be replaced anytime with something a bit better and there's still a lot less content than Reddit had.

  • I think it is an excellent Lemmy client, I use the free version though.

  • I used to use it with RethinkDNS's custom DNS so I never had those ads people buy ad-free to get rid of (there are still placeholders which kind of annoyed me). The UI is pretty nice, it also has features Jerboa does not have. Such as advanced searching that can search users and comments as well (this is possible in the web version), or mod tools. There are a few others but I still decided to switch back to Jerboa because FOSS.

  • Haven't seen anybody suggest thunder yet but it's a top notch app.

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