The developer works full time for the app, even when it was a Reddit client. If you guys can’t view an ad every once in a while to support something you use daily, then delete your Lemmy account. Nobody eats for free.
I agree. That’s why I pay for apps and services that are well designed and supported. The “free” mentality always leads to advertisements being pushed into everyone’s face.
Without financial support, most Lemmy instances wouldn’t exist. I’d rather support apps that have free versions with premium subscriptions, or donation models, but it’s all the same thing to me. I want to go back to world where we just pay for stuff.
They were providing a means by which you can have ad-free access with one payment to Sync’s dev. Thus, you pretty much own unobstructed access to said service with no further charge.
That’s unfortunately as good as it gets in today’s world, unless you want to keep using CDs and DVDs like it’s 2004. Your call.
Have you actually tried Sync? It has significantly better UX than the alternatives currently, and the feature list is unparalleled (I’ve really missed being able to filter out specific users or communities from my feeds).
The developer works full time for the app, even when it was a Reddit client. If you guys can’t view an ad every once in a while to support something you use daily, then delete your Lemmy account. Nobody eats for free.
Imagine defending advertisements.
Sorry, but I’m not a fucking product. I don’t care who’s pushing them.
I agree. That’s why I pay for apps and services that are well designed and supported. The “free” mentality always leads to advertisements being pushed into everyone’s face.
Without financial support, most Lemmy instances wouldn’t exist. I’d rather support apps that have free versions with premium subscriptions, or donation models, but it’s all the same thing to me. I want to go back to world where we just pay for stuff.
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You can buy a ads-free version of sync without subscription for about 15 euros.
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Lol what a sad human being.
They were providing a means by which you can have ad-free access with one payment to Sync’s dev. Thus, you pretty much own unobstructed access to said service with no further charge.
That’s unfortunately as good as it gets in today’s world, unless you want to keep using CDs and DVDs like it’s 2004. Your call.
Lol that world was shit. I never payed for Vim so I’m not sure what you are on about. Free software is superior.
Then pay for the software?
…or just pay 19 dollars to support the dev and get rid of the ads
Why would I do that? I can use a Foss client and get 0 ads.
For more features and customizable UI probably.
the existing apps have all the feature and customization i need
Understandable. Voyager and Thunder are pretty good.
Have you actually tried Sync? It has significantly better UX than the alternatives currently, and the feature list is unparalleled (I’ve really missed being able to filter out specific users or communities from my feeds).
yes i did, i dont see anything thats worth moving from liftoff or infinity. for sure nothing worth paying for…
Having used them all, Sync is already well worth the 20$ to remove the ads imo
The sheer level of customizability and polish isn’t even comparable.
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Voyager is awesome! Very pleasing indeed. Was using it until today.
It does have its issues though. I’m already noticing Sync is much more responsive and faster. Part of that is probably due to Voyager being a PWA.
I actually find Sync to be just as pleasing to use as I did Apollo when I used ios. I dig the slightly more compact yet lightweight feel it has.