I don’t understand the hate for charging for a product. I pay for a Mastodon client. If a Lemmy client that I really liked cost money and I felt the price was reasonable, I’d support that developer, too.

[–] potat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of Lemmy consists of FOSS enthusiasts, so something that's paid and proprietary wouldn't look as good in their eyes.

There's also the fact that the free version of Sync uses (Google?) ad tracking to show you ads, so those people would also be upset.

[–] Digester@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy instances run on servers which are funded by donations. I don't see how Sync (which is made by one developer) gets to be frowned upon because there's a price for ad removal. All FOSS projects are somehow funded, usually by donations. Nothing runs for free.

If we get to use all the FOSS Lemmy apps is because someone put in the time and money to make it happen.

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