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

If they demand payment for third party dev they wouldn’t be free open source anymore, your argument is asinine. If you don’t want to use a paid app then don’t, stop acting like someone else doing it is in some way hurting you personally.

Not getting into this argument because I personally don’t give a shit about the whole situation, but that isn’t really how FOSS works.

The software itself is free, the servers themselves are a service however. That is not free, it may be free to US, but somebody is footing the bill.

That being said, if the sync developer is developing an app for a platform that itself does not use ads and relies solely on donation, ethically speaking he should at least donate some of the profit to the Lemmy devs (even if just 1%), considering that the app DOES rely on their software and they themselves are not seeing any of those funds whatsoever. I have no problem with donations whatsoever, but keep in mind that it isn’t like sync is the greatest creation ever made and is totally self reliant, it 100% depends on Lemmy itself to function.

Whether he does or not doesn’t matter to me because jerboa works perfectly fine for me, but that is just my .02. People are really getting way too fucking heated about this shit and seeing it start to infect spaces like shitpost is honestly turning me off to Lemmy.

People are treating the app like the second coming of Christ FFS.

I mean… I personally do consider it the second coming of Christ 🤷

More fanatical than arch users, that’s coming from one himself.

What if you’re both a fanatical sync user and an arch user?

Because that’s me 🙋