As a software engineer I find it miraculous the amount of people that whine about somebody wanting to get paid for putting weeks, months, and years of their life into a product 100s of thousands of people CHOOSE to use.

Paying is fine, it’s the SHIT TON OF THIRD PARTY TRACKERS they put in the app that worry me

They get completely disabled if you pay, that’s the point. I haven’t got a single tracking ping on my PiHole, I payed for adfree.

My trust was already broken. These lemmy instances come free of charge, free of ads and free of trackers, and this pig of a dev comes around and pulls out an à la spez shenanigan and everyone praises him. He should be keelhauled. And the lemmy servers should block apps that insert ads unless they share profits. I’d be happy to pay for features that add to lemmy, not for features that were taken away. Fuck sync for lemmy