Do you people just hate anyone who receives money?

Oh no my $20 for a lifetime purchase of removing ads from an app I've enjoyed using for like a decade. 🥱

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.

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.

this is dumb, sync is free

Use Lemmy, y'all!

Nooo not like that!

Oh fuck off.

But im using sync for free.

Why are people so angry about this?

This whining is so pathetic.

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.

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

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.

Who let spez make a Lemmy account?

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.

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

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.

🥤🪑🍿

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.

This is probably the 10000th post on sync

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

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

Lemmy users have money?

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.

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