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It appears that it is getting close to a full release for Sync for Lemmy. My only concert is that it might go to a subscription only method of payment. I'd rather pay a lot for a one time unlock or even like a 2 year unlock instead of a monthly subscription.
Im getting subscription burnout and I'm sick of having to juggle literally a hundred subscriptions every month. If it does go subscription based, sadly I'll probably pass on it. Which would be a sad close to a long history of using sync.
We're talking over this on discord:
https://discord.gg/GczRP7vA
Consensus is one time payment to remove ads or subscription for ultra (which also covers ad removal)
That seems fair. I'm in the camp that is really hesitant to take on another subscription but also understand that this your living and it has to be worthwhile for you.
Thank God for the one time payment option.
Subscription fatigue is all too real.
I don't do many subscriptions, but I will for you.
Looking forward to this!
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Hope it works @ljdawson@lemmy.world
Not related to this app, but I agree very much about subscriptions. I cancelled most of mine.
I think I'll be canceling my Prime this year. The single biggest waste of a subscription.
I have Prime but yeah, thinking about getting rid of that too. I got free transport from Amazon when ordering stuff though so that's very nice.
For me, the goods are worse than ever, and I just don't care to support amazon's practices nor China.
Also free shipping is still available for most items if you can wait 3 days. You know they're going to raise the price again come the beginning of the year.
There will be a single time payment for ad-free as was the case with Sync for Reddit. Any subscription based model is for the features which are going to require running (and paying) for a server. Even for Ultra (the paid subscription model) we would most likely have a lifetime option.
Sync dev can have all my Google opinion rewards money. Pretty much what I use them for.
As there is only a handful of lemmy users compared to reddit, I think simply relying on one time purchase is not sustainable for the dev. After the bot accounts purge, there seems to be 1 million lemmy users right now, and only a fraction that is an active users, say, 20% of it (very generous), which translate to 200,000 users. If even 1% of those users bought Sync for Lemmy for $10 (no idea what the actual price will be), it would means 2000 people buy the app. With app store's 30% cut, that means the dev only got $14,000, which is peanuts assuming he'll need to support the app as long as the reddit version (10 years or more?).
What does make you think that's gonna be a subscription?
Literally hundreds of subscriptions every month?