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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[–] spaxxor@lemmy.world 150 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's how things should work honestly. Those that can chip in, should. A beer every so often goes a long way. It's honestly something I barely notice in my finances too. This time it goes to something I believe in instead of a twitch sub lol.

[–] Feugnis@lemm.ee 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don't get me started on twitch subs. Supporting a creator you like is fine, but spending 100s of dollars on gift subs is so stupid.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Twitch looking at their top creators leaving for other platforms.

Increasing our revenue share, unilaterally, should fix this.

[–] protput@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eli5 gift subs?

[–] orientalsniper@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Subs = subscriptions.

A sub on Twitch gives you a badge and special emojis on your subbed channel (streamer).

You also have the option to gift (randomly) 1, 5, 25, 50, 100 subs to random followers (users).

A sub costs $5 in the US, you can gift 100 subs ($500) if you want to.

[–] Anoril@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Supporting creators is fine, but supporting them more is so stupid"

Ok LUL.

[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My guess is they mean in the sense of "support creaters as you'd like, but don't throw all your money into it just for them to pay attention to you for a second"

[–] Anoril@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well then they probably should've said that instead of saying something unrelated to the point ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that what gift subs are? I’ve never understood that. Is it like a tip?

[–] Anoril@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Subs are kinda like tip, except you get something in return. Usually its emotes you can use on any stream on twitch. Some streamers can make other stuff like sub only discord channel but its optional.

Gift subs are exactly the same except you give the benefits to some other chaters.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yep! The developer of Connect for Lemmy is getting caffeinated on a regular basis by me. It's a perfect fit for the RIF gap in my heart. ;)

He/She(?) is doing an awesome job and it's amazing how far this app has come in just a few short weeks. I am trying to keep the dev motivated as much as possible, for sure!

My only gripe is that it's not open source, but that is OK.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

"They"

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Agreed, I started donating to Lemmy as soon as I switched, and I'm happy to pay for sync too. I want to support this ecosystem.