Yes, because no one has ever smoked before they reached the legal age.

Ok here's a revised paragraph for you:

Fast food places are so fundamental as a stepping stone to building a career and to say only young adults who are exploited should be working there only says you are ok exploiting young adults.

Comparing a solo dev to large corporations isn't really convincing me.

I don't know about that. I'm a sync user and some of the foss options are very good by now. I use sync because of familiarity and I like the dev so don't mind dropping some money to support him.

You say this like it's not possible to be moral without religion.

Not just undercutting competition but also by subverting regulations and organizations like unions.

There's no shot youtube will be dethroned any time too. Hosting that amount of video is absurdly expensive.

Hey, you're entitled to your opinion. I think it's fair to say that most people here in the official sync community are going to disagree with you about it being a bad app. As for the FOSS philosophy, I genuinely don't give a fuck. Cool that there are lots of FOSS alternatives but I like LJ and sync and have no issues supporting him. Nice that there are lots of options for different people.

It's a lot for an app, but it's something I use for a couple hours a day so it was honestly a no brainier for me. The initial cost is higher than a lot of apps but when I look at how many thousands of hours I got out of sync for reddit, the price evens out. Just something to consider.

You can block instances through the filter menu.

Settings shortcut: Filters > Instance filters

I do agree that it would be nice to be able to block instances/communities/users from the post, though. Jerboa has this feature available when you hit the three dots on the post and it was a really convenient QOL thing.

Sync has had over 10 years to refine the user experience.

Ad companies figured out that sales are much better with whatever publicity they can get, even bad publicity. It doesn't work with some people, like you, but they haven statistically proven that just getting their name out in any capacity will increase sales.