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.

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.

Well what do you know. Had no idea that was there.

Edit: it seems this only works on posts you actually click/vote on. Better than nothing, but I would prefer if it did this on all posts I've even scrolled past.

I don't disagree, I brought it up just because it's the only argument against piracy that holds any merit at all )even if little) and is, in this case, completely irrelevant anyway.

I managed to get one drive working on linux, able to mount it onto the filesystem using rclone.

I don't have enough ideas man