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    Unless it should? And we shall bully them? They should feel unneeded there?

    They put ads and ask for cash while showing other people’s free resources they put their mind to create? While no other client do so? And plenty of people\bots enable them? And call that a pointless argument on fediverse? Lmao.

    Their spines should be broken asap, and everything around Lemmy should stay free or donation-based. If it is not, next you see are paywalled apps and instances. No one would benefit from a trend of purchaseable clients but these devs, while they don’t bring content, or anything to the table. Their app is useless without others’ work, and yet they charge you 20-100 bucks for being a middleman between you and it. It’s senseless.

    Fuck sync devs. Fuck sync shills. Fuck them all.

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      They bring something to the table: the app. It’s a lot of work to build an app, and takes a lot of time and knowledge. It’s perfectly okay to monetize your work. If you don’t like it, why not build one yourself? The servers are there, and they are free. So is the documentation, and the protocols.

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        Their invasive tactics are concerning. If we’d eat that, other devs may follow. It may become the new reality.

        Servers aren’t free. Donating to your instance is better than paying forban add-free Sync experience. This way you also help other users by making downtime even less noticeable.

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          Nothing is free. If you value the app and don’t like ads, pay for it. If not, use a free one or build one yourself. If you value the service a server is providing, pay for it. Why would you want to artificially restrict our possibilities? it’s not like we can only choose one or the other.

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            The problem isnt that its paid, it’s that they use google AdSense.

            I do not trust a Dev willing to send my data through Google servers.

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                Well, I don’t use it.

                But in regards to the payment, Why on earth would I pay a Dev who thinks using Google servers for ads is a good idea?

                That’s just bad judgement

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            It may snowball into other apps wanting it too? The first to take this step out of blue is asking to face some resistance. It’s natural. I’m surprised no one else is against them.

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              So? Someone who can’t afford to build an app for free won’t do it if there is no demand for it. People building free open source apps will still do it. I really don’t get the problem…

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                Other free services becoming for-profits and add-infested? Sync can set a trend others may follow. As they are first to do so, I’m surprised no one argues thst, as they may set up a degradation of every others’ experience with this platform.

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                  So is your argument that devs creating free apps are only doing so because they haven’t realized they could be charging money for it? Because if so, you live in another world than the rest of us, friend.

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          Someone should’ve brought it. It’s weird we kinda accepted it once it happened for no reason.

          No sleep lost, lmao, just some corporate time.

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            You know you can still get your points across without throwing some insults and vitriol, right? You’ll just unnecessarily make people mad and unwilling to listen to your arguments, and make Lemmy as a whole slightly more toxic place in doing so.

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      Thanks for making Lemmy feel like home, it wouldn’t without you!

      The reality is it’s a free world, regardless of what morality you put on things there are going to be things that happen that you don’t like. That’s life.

      Like it or not Lemmy has had explosive growth because of apps like Sync. Because of them being killed off by Reddit. If it weren’t for the drama of Reddit doing that, I and millions of other users wouldn’t be here right now as we’d still be on Reddit.

      Even people who weren’t using the 3rd party apps left Reddit because Reddit’s actions left a bad taste in their mouths.

      So, morality of one guy charging for his honest work in creating the paid or ad supported app aside, you should be thanking the apps including sync for helping drive so many users to Lemmy.

      If you yourself don’t want to use a paid app, then that’s okay! We’re all allowed to respond or react to things how we want, but being incredibly divisive for something that a lot of people wanted and that really is inconsequential is almost universally frowned on.

      Just let people do what they want and don’t shoot them down for it. More options for browsing Lemmy = more Lemmings = more content.

      Much love my dude! We may disagree on this but we agree on many many many more things I’m sure, just because we’re on Lemmy instead of Reddit in the first place is proof of that! ✌️

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        Someone downvoted you for the first paragraph, I guess.

        I don’t think Sync impacted the reach of Lemmy just yet (it rolled out how many days before?) but it would, maybe. Especially for those who used it before.

        I spat acid not because I’m pissed at people who use it or devs especially, but for not seeing any critique. It seems like an important turning point for Lemmy as a community. And no one bat an eye. I acted as a counterbalance. A mad one, and picked some low-stakes fights. It was funny.

        Have a nice day, dude\ss.