I feel like the dev is trying to cash out, his apps good but reddit screwed him so I do kinda understand but he’s priced me out.
I know I’m cheap and I know this app is great and is a lot of work but fuck, this is expensive. Subscriptions are the worst model capitalism can offer. And the one time payment price is ridiculous, I can’t afford that.
that is one time payment for sync ultra.
there is also a one time payment to just remove ads, at 20$.
I bought the reddit lifetime this year. Lemmy is no where near as interesting or engaging as reddit so far. I guess I’ll just stick with the ad free version.
It’s a bit steep for my finances.
God damn that’s expensive.
Way too expensive.
Lol. I uh. Guess I didn’t want a one time payment option after all.
at that price you could afford the reddit api… not that i’d want to
So I’m not an app developer, so I might be completely off base, but I don’t really understand a lot of the arguments against this.
Firstly, there’s an ad free one time cost that in my opinion seems very fair. Secondly, as I’m looking through the feature for Ultra, most of the features seem to be things that require an external server. I’m not sure how push notifications work so I can’t comment on it, but syncing settings across devices for example doesn’t happen at the instance level. That kind of thing could only be done through a server owned by the dev. However, it is very likely that the dev doesn’t own a server, and is instead renting on a VPS, which is a subscription for them. So in order to provide these particular services, the dev has to pay a subscription. So would it not make sense that those that enjoy the benefits of this subscription the dev pays, also have to pay a subscription? In my mind that simply seems fair, in order to support a dev that has clearly put a lot of time and effort into making a great app.
The user base for Lemmy is significantly smaller than Reddit. The dev needs a smaller number of people to be able to support the operating costs of the app (as well as the wellbeing of the dev) which means that necessarily a different (and steeper) pricing model would be necessary.
I do not think it’s fair to claim that Lemmy API access is free and therefore there are no operating costs, because there’s more to the app than API calls. It is indeed correct that API access is free, which seems to me to be the precise reason why there exists a free version of the app that you don’t have to pay for in the first place. All API calls within the app are free. There are no paywalled Lemmy API calls, at least from what I can tell. But again if I’m wrong I’ll admit it if someone can inform me.
Why would someone pay monthly for a social media app… That’s more fucked than spez.
So just consider buying the ad free version for 20 bucks then?
I pass
My last app, Now for Reddit, charged $4 to unlock all the features of the app, including no ads.
Yikes, that’s really steep and puts a bit of a bad taste in my mouth, tbh. :(
Yikes
then just pay the onetime $20 to remove ads instead
PiHole ftw
how do
Install a PiHole ob a Raspberry Pi and Connect it to your Internet. There are many Guides in YouTube. Heres one of Them https://youtu.be/cE21YjuaB6o
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/cE21YjuaB6o
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Can I do this with an old netbook? Would have to figure out how to keep it running while shut/with the screen off.