this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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[–] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 157 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Do you people just hate anyone who receives money?

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 111 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When Sync lauched it was all anyone was talking about. I don't see the memes for and against Sync as people actually upset I just think it is the meta topic of the week. Like when beans were a meme following the "how can I not poop for three days?"

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[–] STUPIDVIPGUY@sopuli.xyz 91 points 1 year ago (17 children)
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[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 81 points 1 year ago (14 children)
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[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 76 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's more like one dev made the best user experience on lemmy, so people give him money. At least that's the case for me.

[–] Scrithwire@lemmy.one 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same. Dedicated sync for reddit user, now that sync for reddit is dead, I'll follow the sync dev and support him with my Dollars

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[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

We asked him to make sync for lemmy over in r/syncforreddit.

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 65 points 1 year ago

This whining is so pathetic.

[–] Saneless@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Use Lemmy, y'all!

Nooo not like that!

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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago (4 children)

But im using sync for free.

Why are people so angry about this?

[–] theragu40@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Well you see, it's important to aggressively gatekeep anything that people start to use and enjoy.

[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The people who are actually angry tend to be FOSS advocates. I think they were assuming Sync would have a FOSS type option for users, and were surprised that wasn't the case.

The rest of us just think it's funny.

I'm a sync user, btw

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm a FOSS advocate, and I have the $20 Sync ad free.

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[–] CobraChicken@lemmy.ca 61 points 1 year ago

Hey OP why don't you start by sharing your donation receipts to Lemmy?

[–] gsfraley@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Christ, let me use my favorite app in peace instead of going "tsk tsk" and whinging about it when no one's stopping you from using other apps.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Like this is somehow the fault of sync's dev. Go ahead folks, the donate to lemmy button is at the top of the page, go ahead and click on it if your morals are so true.

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[–] Roundcat@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Leave reddit cause you can't use your preferred app anymore. Come to Lemmy, and get beat over the head for your choice of preferred app.

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[–] bradmont@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 year ago

Who let spez make a Lemmy account?

[–] spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee 38 points 1 year ago

Why 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.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago

And this kind of idiocy is why I'm glad there's a user block

[–] chri_ho@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I downloaded Sync and thought wow nice ui, maybe I sould buy the adless version. Than I thought wtf, why is this so fucking expensive?

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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Damn. 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.

🥤🪑🍿

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

This 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.

[–] Ktheone@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is probably the 10000th post on sync

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[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This image is awful. Rich assholes would never allow the pipe to drip.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure I would call the dev of sync a rich asshole. It's only one dude and the app is livelihood. He is very responsive to input and very good at what he does. It's a great app. Or it was, for reddit. Currently still some growing pains but impressed how well it is considering it's been only one month.

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[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure what you are talking about? I did not (yet) pay the 20€ for the ad free version of sync. But I did donate more than double that amount to the lemmy devs. And if my instance would accept donations, I also would have donated there

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[–] ZarbtheBard@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

lmao 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

[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 16 points 1 year ago

I'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.

[–] acutfjg@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago
[–] sudostartx@lemmy.one 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That developer guy must have gotten very rich if we all 20 Lemmy Sync users bought his app.

I wonder what's the percentage of Sync users vs the rest, seeing how passionate some are about Lemmy, it probably means they are inundating Lemmy developers with donations and just want us to do the same.

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