Just saying…

I get that there’s inflation and all… but there are no Imgur API fees to deal with like there were with Reddit (images upload right to the Lemmy instance).

Posted from Connect for Reddit…

I get that there’s inflation and all

$3.99 in 2016 adjusted for inflation would be $5.07 today.

that’s us inflation maybe but LJ lives in the UK and I can tell you it’s a lot worse than that for us the bank of England says a certain inflation rate that isn’t that high but it feels like the cost of everything including food has at least tripled over the last year or two maybe more sync at its end was a fiver and hadn’t gone up in a few years so if you triple that you get 15 which yeah is below 20 by a quarter but S4R lasted 10 years before it died only cause of reddit I don’t think that’s a bad price to pay for a lifetime of adless sync sync is ljs job so it’s only natural the price is gonna go up with food going up this much 20 quid for 10 years or more of updates for an app I use constantly isn’t a bad deal

www.bankofengland.co.uk/…/inflation-calculator

£3.99 in 2016 would be £5.21 today, adjusted for inflation.

I mean you can argue about percentages and all, and how inflation isn’t measured realistically but there’s absolutely no way you can go from $3.99 to $20 using inflation as the reason.

The real reason is the development cost stay the same, but the pool of potential buyers is 100x less for Sync for Lemmy compared to Sync for Reddit. With only about 100,000 monthly active users on Lemmy, even if 1% of them bought the app at $20, the dev would only net about $14,000 (after 30% play store fee). The dev himself even said he’ll lower the price as the number of active Lemmy users grow.