Not hating on open source, just let people use what fits their expectations and needs and stop deterring them with gatekeeping :P
UX = user experience
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I do find it a bit odd to monetize a client for a service which is 100% free. Not necessarily against it, but it bothers me slightly.
I have to laugh at the 100% free moniker. Sure, the CODE is free. Do you seriously think hosting, domains, certificates, maintenance, and everything that goes into an instance just poofs out of nowhere? Seriously?
Lemmy and Mastodon are both paid products. Maybe you don't pay (and you should) but you should disabuse yourself of the illusion that Lemmy just happens.
By 100% free I meant on the end of the client. And it's not like the money from the monetization of sync is going towards hosting lemmy servers.
And you've missed the point again.
You use Lemmy for 100% free because other people pay to keep the lights on.
Sync is no different. The dev needs to eat.
Then we shall upload the dev to a computer so it does not need to eat.
Go ahead and reread my comment.
You might use Lemmy for 100% free, but you're being subsidized by the rest of us who pay the hosts to keep these instances alive. THAT is why Lemmy doesn't have ads.
First off, you say the rest of us. Do you support lemmy financially yourself? (Genuine question, not trying to call you our or anything)
But that same thing can be said about all open-source software. I don't fully get your point. The reason the whole sync thing feels wrong to me is just because all that expensive fancy stuff, whether server hosting or the framework and protocol itself, isn't the service you're paying for. All that is free for the end user. Paying for essentially just the UI seems odd. It'd be like having a desktop environment for Linux that's paid only.