We can thank the beauty of ActivityPub to let people reply across multiple platforms.

Fedilab works great for me.

Cars oil need more steps than removing the back of a phone and place a new battery.

It’s the opposite for his business. His business become useless if people can replace batteries by themselves what the EU rule states.

You can’t compare Reddit and Lemmy. They are different with a different model. Lemmy rely on donation. Reddit has ads and investors.

The dev of Sync did money with Reddit but Reddit had a source of revenue.

Lemmy relying on donation doesn’t have this source of revenue. This is why splitting the revenue of Sync between Lemmy’s devs, instances and Sync’s dev is fair.

If someone donate to the Lemmy’s devs and/or instances, this person allows the sync’s dev to make money on this donation. This isn’t fair.

The sync model with Lemmy is predatory at best and parasitic at least.

They need to earn more than the dev of sync who don’t split the revenue with the Lemmy dev and the instances. The split of the revenues is fair for everyone. Lemmy devs, instances and Sync dev receive something for their work.

He is literally making money on the back of the people donating. Without these donator his business doesn’t make any sense and wouldn’t exist.

But, the dev doesn’t comply with gdpr. It’s opt-out by default what is not the case.

So to access the payment, you have to share private and personal datas. This isn’t fine at all. He should offer the option to buy without being tracked.

I’m not assuming. My point is that the dev has to share the revenues with the instances. Without instances, the app is useless. It’s not the case so users should give the same.

The other point is that a paid third party client adds a layer what makes the instances less visible. This lack of visibility can lower the donation. Also, you will end with one or two people thinking they pay for the app and so for the instances.

A reminder is always good.

And at the beginning, it was like 1$. When you have the full history, it looks like another raise of the price.

It was 1$ at the beginning for the pro version.

Sync looks like the apple, Tesla/musk of some.

If the dev was fair, he would split the revenues of all the models with the instances to keep them alive. The free API call doesn’t matter if the instances close.

You will attract the fanboys base. But, I second this. People should give the same amount of money to an instance before giving to these closed apps. Without the instances, they couldn’t use the apps.

You can mod sync for reddit so it does work.

Where was that implied at all?

Reading all these threads about Sync makes me think about fanboys. The critics aren’t welcome.

4.99 was when he raised the price. It was cheaper.

I understand the fact Lemmy has a smaller user basse. The new price is a bit too much. With a small user base, the competition is greater.

I care as having it or not is two different situations. It had a layer of protection without it.

The issue for me is having the code. If I pay, I want an app without the ads/trackers code.

Same

It was something like $3.89 for the pro back in the days.