No it doesn’t. There have beem tons of foss apps better than paid apps, and also the other way around. It doesn’t mean anything regarding the quality of the project.
As a user, the only thing you can be sure about, is that if the developer of a closed app gets hit by a bus, a stranger can’t just pick up the development. Other than that nothing is certain.
Being open source doesn’t mean it’ll get stolen lol.
People can copy the code, but unless they add anything significant, everyone will keep using the most famous one. Plus there are several licenses which can add restrictions regarding ‘look, contribute, but don’t copy without permission’
Vulnerabilities would be discovered much quickly, and people will even contribute to it. He’ll still have the right to sell his app on the Play Store… or keep a premium type plan like he already has.
Commoditization by adding ads in a natively ad-free and libre service, and also questionable pricing:
$20 for ad removal (which some say doesn’t disable tracking?)
$2 monthly or $20 annual or $120 lifetime Ultra subscription, which includes ad removal and a few serverside bells and whistles like cloud backup
The pricing increased 10 times in comparison to pre-API shit Sync for Reddit, so the community is now divided on whether the developer spreads the costs over fewer potential users on Lemmy vs. Reddit or is just becoming greedy to monetize the new service as quick as possible before it eventually dies off.
I don’t get the downvotes. I listed facts, showed rationale of the two sides of the argument and never favoured one of them (at least not in this comment). I’m only a proxy, haven’t stated my opinion, just informed what’s the conflict about. You guys can’t get angry at facts. I see Lemmy is going full reddit. Don’t shoot the messenger.
We don’t know if Lemmy is going to last. Why spend time and effort making an app for it to just die. LJ (the dev) needs to eat, and since lemmy isn’t popular compared to reddit, jacking up the price seems necessary.
I don’t think LJ is being greedy. Again, he needs to eat. It’s a niche community, and a niche community will most always be more expensive than other things.
I won’t pretend to be an expert on ad revenue. But couldn’t one explanation for the Sync for Reddit vs. Lemmy pricing be that reddit had far more users, translating to more ad revenue from the free version, allowing the developer to justify a cheaper price for the paid version?
As far as the $20 for ad removal goes, I haven’t seen any compelling arguments that it doesnt remove trackers. Ive seen several people posting proof that it does remove trackers, along with the tool and method they used to check. As for the subscription service, it includes a lot of really nice features beyond removing ads; I think its aimed at enthusiasts and power users.
I find the idea that ljdawson is just trying to capitalize on a trend in order to make a quick buck to be ridiculous. The app is already too polished for that. Sync already offers a far better experience than any alternatives IMO, and its still only in beta.
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It isn’t open source. To be honest, it isn’t that much of a deal is it. Because the dev isn’t a megacorp so I don’t think he would steal our data.
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No it doesn’t. There have beem tons of foss apps better than paid apps, and also the other way around. It doesn’t mean anything regarding the quality of the project.
As a user, the only thing you can be sure about, is that if the developer of a closed app gets hit by a bus, a stranger can’t just pick up the development. Other than that nothing is certain.
Or he doesn’t want his work stolen???
Being open source doesn’t mean it’ll get stolen lol. People can copy the code, but unless they add anything significant, everyone will keep using the most famous one. Plus there are several licenses which can add restrictions regarding ‘look, contribute, but don’t copy without permission’ Vulnerabilities would be discovered much quickly, and people will even contribute to it. He’ll still have the right to sell his app on the Play Store… or keep a premium type plan like he already has.
You can release your source code without making it freely available for people to use. Not every open source app is GPL licensed.
Not at all. Being open source allows the community of users and other developers to suggest improvements to the code base.
And you can still sell an app that is open source.
Commoditization by adding ads in a natively ad-free and libre service, and also questionable pricing:
The pricing increased 10 times in comparison to pre-API shit Sync for Reddit, so the community is now divided on whether the developer spreads the costs over fewer potential users on Lemmy vs. Reddit or is just becoming greedy to monetize the new service as quick as possible before it eventually dies off.
I don’t get the downvotes. I listed facts, showed rationale of the two sides of the argument and never favoured one of them (at least not in this comment). I’m only a proxy, haven’t stated my opinion, just informed what’s the conflict about. You guys can’t get angry at facts. I see Lemmy is going full reddit. Don’t shoot the messenger.
Lots of basic Reddit users are here now.
We don’t know if Lemmy is going to last. Why spend time and effort making an app for it to just die. LJ (the dev) needs to eat, and since lemmy isn’t popular compared to reddit, jacking up the price seems necessary.
I don’t think LJ is being greedy. Again, he needs to eat. It’s a niche community, and a niche community will most always be more expensive than other things.
I won’t pretend to be an expert on ad revenue. But couldn’t one explanation for the Sync for Reddit vs. Lemmy pricing be that reddit had far more users, translating to more ad revenue from the free version, allowing the developer to justify a cheaper price for the paid version?
As far as the $20 for ad removal goes, I haven’t seen any compelling arguments that it doesnt remove trackers. Ive seen several people posting proof that it does remove trackers, along with the tool and method they used to check. As for the subscription service, it includes a lot of really nice features beyond removing ads; I think its aimed at enthusiasts and power users.
I find the idea that ljdawson is just trying to capitalize on a trend in order to make a quick buck to be ridiculous. The app is already too polished for that. Sync already offers a far better experience than any alternatives IMO, and its still only in beta.