Ok so now we have a one time purchase option, now someone make it make sense how it costs more to buy lifetime access to a months old site, than it did for me to buy the same upgrade for a longstanding site I knew Id be using for years. As far as I'm concerned lemmy is still just a possible reddit replacement, at least until we see that it has the longevity we all want.
You're not buying access to a site, you're buying a great piece of software. Users generally expecting free content and software is what got reddit and other social media into the sad state they're in now.