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Please put your money where your mouth is. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TheBest@lemmy.world to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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Sync Ultra is a very reasonable $17 a YEAR. YouTube Premium is reaching that per MONTH. I have sync downloaded and it was the first thing I did. Thanks lj for the beautiful app.

[EDIT: That was a poor comparison, as pointed out in the comments. Leaving it for discussion sake.

There are many counterpoints and actually good discussion happening down below. Even if you don't agree, thanks for showing me a different perspective!

If you want to support Sync, make sure to support the Lemmy Devs and your instance holders as well!

*This post was made early in the day before the update added the OTP option.]

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[-] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de -5 points 1 year ago

I can't believe everyone asking for a one time payment option. If you don't want to keep subscribing just get a yearly ultra and then cancel. Support the dev guys. Nothing worth having is free

[-] Voyajer@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

...Lemmy is free.

Also the one time payment model was how sync funded itself until now.

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Lemmy has the illusion of being free IMO, our donations keep the cloud clouding and the devs devving 🫣

[-] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Lol you think lemmy is free. Try actually hosting. Nothing is free. Not lemmy, not mastodon, not kbin. I subscribe to mastodon's patreon and I support my hosts just like I'm paying for sync. Because I want to keep it going. Of course there will be free users, I understand not everyone is as privileged as me but that doesn't mean any of these things are free.

Also one time payment was a form of how sync funded itself. It still had the sync ultra function alongside the pro version.

[-] Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nothing worth having is free

I beg to differ. I'm using Connect and its free and it's fantastic, w/ no ads

[-] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

I used to have connect before sync. It's a great app but nowhere close bro.

[-] Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah? I'm legitimately interested. Mind telling me what you like about it more than Connect?

[-] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

For starters it's smoother on my phone. I don't think connect supports a faster refresh rate. You can set individual default sort for basically any feed or community. I can have the home feed set for new and all feed set for hot. Way more and I mean WAY MORE customization options. Better working gestures for liking or disliking or bookmarking. Easier to access subscribed communities. Also if you tap on the search bar you'll see commonly browsed communities. For example I check memes but I don't want them on my home feed so I just go to the community. And that's just stuff off the top of my head. I would find more if I installed connect again to do a side by side. Don't get me wrong connect is a great app but sync has been polished through the years and it's shows.

[-] Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you very much. I'm going to go check it out.

[-] daemonspudguy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I already paid for Sync for Reddit. Now, to not have ads, it costs considerably more than I paid for, on a client to a service that has no ads or a monetized API.