• Stumblinbear@pawb.social
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    Not really. The alternative is charging for the app in the first place, but if you do that your app fails. You include ads to help pay for development and ongoing expenses.

    Offering a subscription to remove them for those that want to is secondary to that. Very few people actually subscribe to anything at all unless they absolutely have to. You’d be surprised to learn how few users actually pay to remove ads–like oftentimes less than one percent

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          Donations work. The dev clearly has many loyal fans willing to pay. Look at Jerboa/Lemmy’s donation pages. It’s good money.

          Besides this I’m not even saying the dev shouldn’t do it. I’m just explaining that I don’t like it.

          I gladly donate to FOSS software devs because the product never forces me to log in for a feature or get a key or see an ad. The app doesn’t get any of the bloat required to do that stuff either. I just don’t want to use Sync and it’s not because I’m cheap

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            It’s good money.

            The Lemmy dev is making around 30k a year. Subtract taxes from that and he’s making maybe 25k (at best).

            They’re very clearly extremely talented software engineers, and you’re telling me $12 an hour is “good money”? Do you have any idea how much software engineers make?