• drekly@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Oh no my $20 for a lifetime purchase of removing ads from an app I’ve enjoyed using for like a decade. 🥱

    • kenbw2@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I think the point of the post is ain’t nobody donating $20 to the Lemmy platform or host or other apps

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        1 year ago

        This meme implies that Sync is taking all the donations though. The people donating to Sync didn’t stop donating to Lemmy to do so

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          Yea this is the thing I keep saying. Who cares about if you’re paying $20 for an app if that’s what you want to do. Just remember to help out the instances who are running things to make that app work. I think a lot of people realize this and that’s great, but I’m sure some people also don’t. So, instead of circlejerking about Sync being $20, it would have been better for make one or two posts days ago with that reminder and leave it be. Instead, we see the circlejerk continuing days later.

          • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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            I agree. Although I was surprised that my insurance rejected all forms of donation. It’s pretty small, though.

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        My instance shut down donos because they were bringing in way more than they needed and are sitting on years of server costs at current usage. I was donating when they were open, though.

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        1 year ago

        I’m signed up the patreon for mine, they’re gonna get more than $20 over time

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        A new platform like Lemmy needs to establish trust and reliability for a certain time period before it can expect people to give back something. Something that the Sync developer has established already for a decade now.

        Assuming that Lemmy continues to flourish well, I will be perfectly happy to donate to Lemmy, in fact I’m quite sure that in the long run I’ll donate a lot more to Lemmy than the one time purchase cost of Sync.

        • Iamdanno@lemmy.world
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          I agree. As an immigrant from reddit, I have noticed a lot of server instability. It doesn’t give me a warm fuzzy feeling about the future of Lemmy.

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        My instance doesn’t take donations at the moment. I’ll definitely contribute once there’s something.