Haven’t tried it but I just decided to put a recurring donation for aeharding on Github, Sync for Lemmy’s tracking-infused ad model and the pricing for the ad-free versions just convinced me that we need to support open-source devs even more.
I find it sad that lots of people seem to be excited to pay $20 for a closed-source app but very few supported the devs that have been developing the apps that carried us on their backs until now for free.
Voyager has only 22 sponsors right now and hasn’t even reached his $250/month goal on Github, while Sync for Lemmy is already asking for $100 for a OTP for the Ultra version.
EDIT: aeharding also just added a Liberapay in the sidebar!
People have a certain familiarity with Sync. I would pay $20 if “Relay for Reddit” were ported over. The other apps just lack a ton of polish unfortunately. Liftoff is the closest to being what I want (besides Sync).
Even still, I don’t understand the backlash against the Sync dev charging for his work. If he’s successful, others may see a viable path forward and follow him. We should WANT a variety of quality Lemmy clients out there for users. A good experience is how you gain/retain users. I’m also all for open source options for users. Users should have a choice.
I’m not the dev but my general feeling is that he doesn’t want to do anything like this. He seems to kind of dodge questions about payment or supporting him more. Which is a shame, cause I’d love to see more people contribute
Haven’t tried it but I just decided to put a recurring donation for aeharding on Github, Sync for Lemmy’s tracking-infused ad model and the pricing for the ad-free versions just convinced me that we need to support open-source devs even more.
I find it sad that lots of people seem to be excited to pay $20 for a closed-source app but very few supported the devs that have been developing the apps that carried us on their backs until now for free.
Voyager has only 22 sponsors right now and hasn’t even reached his $250/month goal on Github, while Sync for Lemmy is already asking for $100 for a OTP for the Ultra version.
EDIT: aeharding also just added a Liberapay in the sidebar!
Hey, thanks for sponsoring! 💙
People have a certain familiarity with Sync. I would pay $20 if “Relay for Reddit” were ported over. The other apps just lack a ton of polish unfortunately. Liftoff is the closest to being what I want (besides Sync).
Even still, I don’t understand the backlash against the Sync dev charging for his work. If he’s successful, others may see a viable path forward and follow him. We should WANT a variety of quality Lemmy clients out there for users. A good experience is how you gain/retain users. I’m also all for open source options for users. Users should have a choice.
Can you post a link for the donation for Voyager
https://github.com/sponsors/aeharding/
Do you think you could add a donate button in the app like Apollo used to? So I can give using my Apple account.
I’m not the dev but my general feeling is that he doesn’t want to do anything like this. He seems to kind of dodge questions about payment or supporting him more. Which is a shame, cause I’d love to see more people contribute
you have a “sponsors” button in the sidebar of this community 😁
How do you do this? How do you sponsor? I would love to sponsor aeharding
They use GitHub sponsors. There is a link to support them listed in the readme on their GitHub.
https://github.com/aeharding/voyager#-sponsors
There’s a GitHub “sponsors” button in the sidebar. He also added a Liberapay link if you prefer it over GitHub.
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