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You're absolutely correct. Anyone can enjoy any app they like and either pay for it or not.
But coming into a thread about ways to ensure Lemmy gets the support it needs to develop and instances get the support they need to keep going to tell everyone how much you love your app is infantile.
Here's what OP said:
"With all this talk about Sync pricing...I think now is a great time to remind everyone, like sync’s developer, Lemmy’s developers need to be paid too! The amount of time all the devs put into making lemmy exist, in my opinion, should be worth some of your money. If you can afford it, donating to the people who develop lemmy and/or the people keeping your home instance up will accelerate the incredible growth of lemmy!"
How on Earth do you come to the conclusion that that is in any way calling Sync users out?
I have to assume you're referring to things I've said as it would be pretty stupid to expect me to be answerable for things other people have said.
So, you let me know where I've made any comments in the entire thread that are based on Sync being a for-profit app and my lectures about the desirability of FOSS purism and I'll be happy to talk about them.
Then why did you ask me to justify OP's post?
Then why did you try and make me answerable for what other people were saying?
It's pretty simple. You said:
And clearly expected me to have some sort of ownership of, or participation in, that lecturing. I then pointed out to you that I didn't believe I had either but if you could find an example of me doing so I'd be happy to talk about it.
Because it's not what I said. I said:
I'm not sure saying someone(s) coming into a thread which is nothing to do with Sync as a piece of software and proceeding to hijack it to be about Sync is infantile behaviour is directly equivalent to 'standing up for yourself is infantile'. They weren't standing up for themselves, they'd made an error in understanding what the thread was about and when informed what it was about got annoyed and asked why they 'couldn't just use what we want' or 'why do you care?' when as far as I can tell nobody (certainly not me) told them they couldn't use whatever app they wanted to, its simply not what this thread was about.
By quoting exactly what you said and exactly what I said I'm shadow boxing? OK.
So you didn't ask me to justify OP's post? And you didn't expect a response from me when you talked about FOSS purists lecturing Sync users? If not, why on Earth did you even mention it?
The trouble is, you did say that stuff. I've quoted you (and myself) directly. Now, if I've misunderstood either your words or the intent of your words, feel free to explain to me exactly where I've gone wrong and if I am wrong, I'll gladly and happily apologise.
I've also directly answered your request about the usage of the word 'infantile' but I see you've chosen to not see that. I can understand that.