Well so far everything on lemmy has run on the goodwill of instance owners, lemmy maintainers, and app developers working for free. Sync as far I can tell is the only thing so far to bring an openly capitalist approach to lemmy, and it depends on the free hosting that instance owners are providing. I don't have any problems with people wanting paid for their work. However, I can see how it's a little jarring to see an app charge such a subscription fee while some big instances are struggling with hosting costs and likely pulling in much less in donations.

[–] spike@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So much this.
I'd rather give the 20$ to my fav instances, than to an optional app.

[–] Neve8028@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sync as far I can tell is the only thing so far to bring an openly capitalist approach to lemmy

Sync's pricing is inherently socialist. LJ owns his own labor and is able to decide what is done with it. If you don't want to pay then cool, there are plenty of other options.

[–] BaskinRobbins@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also inherently capitalist. Maybe profiteering would've been a better word? As I stated above, I have no problem with people getting paid for their work. He can charge whatever the hell he wants.

[–] Neve8028@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Idk, LJ doesn't have a boss that takes a portion of the profits he generates. Extraction of surplus labor is the cornerstone of capitalism. But this isn't really the place to get into a deep discussion about regardless. I don't think it's profiteering either to charge an amount that provides you with a living wage. Sync for reddit had orders of magnitude more users than the Lemmy version so of course he'll need to charge more on Lemmy to keep doing it full time.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know what to think about post-scarcity commodities.