2y ago

I like the web app more.

499 comments

God forbid you have to pay for stuff.
- God forbid you ~~have to~~ can pay for stuff if you want.
  It's a third party app. One of many. With an optional purchase to support the dev. Honestly...
  
  What a genuinely unhinged take.
  
  You're not paying for the API, you're paying for the dev time.
  
  A slimeball for having an optional charge for a product they have made and have input their own time and skills into?
  
  That's a hot take, it's still a shit take, but hot as well
  
  Don't forget that he added ads into the app for a platform that doesn't have ads and then is selling the option to remove them.
  
  It's blowing my mind that people on here are happy to throw $100+ at a mobile app to access a free website that has multiple free and very good apps, especially when the app they're paying for is inserting ads into the experience to make people pay to remove the ads.
- $20 one time for a well developed app that I use multiple hours a day is inexpensive.
  I pay almost as much to multiple streaming services PER MONTH for a shitty experience and sometimes not a completely ad-free experience.
  Anyway, in all honesty I chose the $1.99/mo because it gives the dev $24/yr into perpetuity. I also donate to instances. I also use Connect and Jerboa and Liftoff. It's whatever.
- I pay for Sync and Telegram. Telegram doesn't even have ads, I just want to throw money at the things that provide me entertainment and value on a daily basis. Just because you don't like to pay for things doesn't mean you should project that mindset onto other people.
  
  I paid for sync for Reddit, I donated to my Lemmy instance and I'll pay for Sync for Lemmy once I decide for myself whether I take the subscription, simply ad free or one time payment for ultra. As there's still fixes to the pricing going on I'll wait out for that
  I guess I'm biased with paying for software since I work at a company that makes software it also offers in its' own SaaS platform. I literally maintain the infrastructure so I'm intimately familiar with those costs. I appreciate anyone who offers software and service for free. But there's always a cost and if you want premium service you'll need to pay for it.
  That is ofcourse another justification and easy one since paying for sync is almost nothing to me. I do hope the free Sync keeps being a good alternative for anyone who wants to try it.
  
  I don't even use sync
  
  I don't want to feel good. I DO feel good. The truth is there would be no need to justify anything were it not for all the FOSS zealots throwing shade instead of just minding their business. Stop worrying about whether we feel good, and start thinking about why you want others to feel bad.