Afternoon everyone,

I wanted to go over a few points related to pricing, stats and the roadmap

Pricing

  1. Sync for Lemmy is completely free with ads (the same as Sync for Reddit)

  2. You can remove ads in the account picker or drawer for a one time fee of ~$20

  3. Sync Ultra also removes ads but it’s not required

  4. I’ll be working on regional prices over the coming weeks

There are now 24k installed users up from 100 the previous day!

I’m going to be spending the next few days going through all of the comments / messages and fixing any crashes.

As always thanks for the support and hope you’re liking Sync!

Lj

Edit: testing edit

  • Redredme@lemmy.worldEnglish
    525·
    1 year ago

    LJ,

    I too am a reddit refugee. I like what you’ve done with this place.

    :)

    But we have to talk about pricing and privacy.

    Pricing: tbh I see not much wrong with the 20 bucks. But I do think that you should take 2 bucks from that and donate one to the lemmy org (this is not reddit, nobody is getting paid, the lemmy devs also need an incentive) and the other one to lemmy.world because that’s the instance you’re dumping us all on. Hosting is not free, lemmy.world costs money and probably a lot of time to run. Being a reddit admin is a payed job, being Ruud at lemmy.world is most certainly not.

    In this way “we” are giving back to the Foss community and it should silence a lot of critics. In that way you don’t look like the evil capitalist earning a quick buck over the back of free labour of the foss community. I think that’s 2 bucks well spent.

    Privacy: since you’re using admob and I forgot the other one, privacy is out the window. That’s a big issue for the Foss community we’re all relying on. Maybe it’s wise to point out that once you pay for sync all that tracking that admob and the other one (not you I hope) does is out the window.

    • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      1 year ago

      $20 is enough of a barrier to keep out new people. I was considering maybe trying it out until then.

      I don’t remember what I paid for RiF years ago, but it was a lot less than that. Heh, I looked it up. November 27th, 2013 I paid $1.99 for RiF. January 4th, 2014 I paid $0.99 for Sync for Reddit. I never used it, but apparently I had it.

      $5-$8 seems much more reasonable. You’d probably even make more money through volume. $20 is prohibitive.

      Edit: Oh God, it’s $20 per year?!? Is that a joke?

      • GinDaHood@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Edit: Oh God, it’s $20 per year?!? Is that a joke?

        No, it’s a one time payment just to remove ads.

    • stephenc@waveform.socialEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      In this way “we” are giving back to the Foss community and it should silence a lot of critics.

      I think you underestimate how negative the Internet can be. :) People will just find a new aspect of the app to complain about.