Dude. There are different types of ads. Small ad banners which don’t affect normal posts is not an issue for me. I am getting a good experience so this is the way I am going to pay for it.

There are umpteen services that run on donations

A lot of them when the user base has grown, wasn’t sustainable and also got closed down and moved to subscription.

If any selection of the free content network I’m a part of isn’t showing me the content I want it’s an intrusion.

You can pay for subscription or use another app. It’s fine. Other devolopers who don’t charge a single bit now will change it in the future. Who is mad to support an app without getting any kind of benefit. There are some open-source developers who do that. Still.

My stomach and bills force me too. In the mean time I will look for better jobs.

This is present in all apps in the playstore for serving ads. If you are running away from it you have to run from the entire internet. You want to live a life like the people in privacy sub reddit with that tin foil hat. For the developer to serve ads this is necessary.

I respect your opinion. For me it was super clunky. I tried every app for lemmy. The best one is sync for now. If there is a proper competition it will be boost for lemmy.

Dev has to somehow pay their bills. And for continuous support they need some kind of reward for their time and effort. Eventually other apps will be moved to subscription or they will just stop updating. These apps will still run because of ad support or subscription. Ads are actually non intrusive.

If you use private dns if on android then no ads in sync. I just saw this post and noticed there were no ads in my sync app. Then I remembered that I am using private dns for blocking ads. I might switch it on for supporting the dev. Because non intrusive ads are fine for a great experience. Now I am having the same experience of sync when I use reddit.

I was a reddit sync user. Same experience. Better than all other lemmy apps available now. Smooth and easy to use. Decently customisable.

Every religion is the same for this thing. I don’t understand why. Here many priests from different religions got caught for abusing children.

I also like enjoying the beauty of cute female teachers. But when they get angry they are really terrible. Cute angry monsters shouting at you.

There are people who don’t like NATO or outside the western world. Everyone has different opinions. Many of us are misinformed on a daily basis. Not everything we believe is true. And western governments are also good at propaganda and false news spreading.