I just don’t want the data collection and subscriptions.
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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
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
There’s a GitHub “sponsors” button in the sidebar. He also added a Liberapay link if you prefer it over GitHub.
They use GitHub sponsors. There is a link to support them listed in the readme on their GitHub.
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The main data collection post I assume you saw was misleading and isn’t a true list of what data is collected. Viewing their privacy policy will tell you exactly what it collects and it’s only a handful of things.
But so long as everyone uses what they like then it shouldn’t matter 🙂
Ok.
They have a one time purchase option but, it’s expensive
Yea. $100 is a bit much when voyager is such a great app.
Holy crap - that is a lot. Well, welcome back.
It’s $20 for just removing ads permanently. But still, that’s still too much imo.
Yep it is. Also I have a distrust for any kind of selling point involving the words ‘permanent’ or ‘lifetime’.
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Yes, the free version of the app has ads added to it.
I’m using Connect, works for the most part
Mostly use connect and voyager.
I only have some personal issues with voyager.
- not showing external images and videos.
- awkward lower bottom menu
I’m using free apps and I donate. Although I feel as though I need to donate to the instances more. Can only imagine their costs going higher as they get more traffic.
You may try Infinity for Lemmy. It’s a fork of Infinity for Reddit and it is actively being developed.
The UI is not good
But at least it is functional, smooth and loads faster.
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I am curious how sync is going to implement push notifications (which requires a subscription). The dev either is going to have to wait for web push to be added (which doesn’t seem to be a priority for lemmy devs as they are a bit swamped already). Or he will need to rely on rapid polling like memmy (scaling would be messy down the line).
