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I just don't want the data collection and subscriptions.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People have a certain familiarity with Sync. I would pay $20 if "Relay for Reddit" were ported over. The other apps just lack a ton of polish unfortunately. Liftoff is the closest to being what I want (besides Sync).

Even still, I don't understand the backlash against the Sync dev charging for his work. If he's successful, others may see a viable path forward and follow him. We should WANT a variety of quality Lemmy clients out there for users. A good experience is how you gain/retain users. I'm also all for open source options for users. Users should have a choice.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not charging people have issue with, but the initial subscription model approach to ads it took.

It might have worked for Reddit with its api calls they were charging for and the space of reddit generally being full on monetization of its users, but for something related to the fediverse it was off putting. And I think people here are more adverse to ads even being present in an app than paying.

Approach to subscription requests I've found best has been Christians approach with Apollo of having no ads but less features on the free version like limits to filters, no multiple account logins, and no submissions.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Submissions is a shit thing to paywall imo

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Maybe, but I do greatly prefer limited features to push users towards the paid option over the ad model.