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With all this talk about sync's pricing... (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by Feugnis@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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!

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[+] Spliffman1@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] TheFriendlyArtificer@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I call it, "subscription fatigue".

Work bought me an iPad. It was my first foray into iOS.

I'm not sure what the app store was like before, but I couldn't find a single app that didn't have a subscription plan. Even a simple SSH client built using open source libraries wants $6.00/mo.

I totally understand why people groan and do a face palm any time they see yet another app wanting to charge them monthly, hoping that once there you'll forget that you've subscribed.

The only reason that I paid for Sync is that I've seen the dev interactions and their dedication to the project. I would never ever pay for a software subscription from any of the big players. For a single person setup, I'm more than happy to do it. I donate to my favorite podcasts and my favorite designers from Thingiverse.

Late stage capitalism and the rent-seeking economy sucks. But becoming accustomed to individuals paying other individuals is one of the things we're going to have to do to make it suck less.

[-] droans@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Termius?

I might pay for their subscription if it was like $2 a year. Cloud sync is not worth $120 a year.

I only really need it when I'm transferring devices. Oddly enough, they also seem to give you a free one week trial whenever you do so.

I get that they're targeting enterprise customers, but they could just charge a smaller fee for individuals and go hard on companies who are skirting the rules.