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It's the steep price increase that everyone's offended with. The annual cost is how much the old lifetime subscription cost iirc. (Which makes sense knowing that Lemmy has a smaller user count)
Plus the inability to disable telemetry even if paying.
I mean it's fine and all, but we're here at Lemmy and not Reddit for a reason. This usergroup is the ones that care the most about privacy and FOSS more than almost any other online community.
That's fine. In my opinion, I think that would be more of a valid point if there were no alternatives, but as the original post shows there are plenty of FOSS apps available for those that want that.
I just feel like the developer has took a lot of his time and effort to make this for the community, but instead, some of the community decides to bash him for it due to the pricing model and it not being FOSS.
We're supposed to be building Lemmy as a community but here we are fighting against ourselves internally when there's plenty of options for everyone to use.
Iirc old lifetime one was just for getting rid of ads (I bought it twice), but sync ultra is just extra features for a small cost each month meant to support the developer a little bit extra.
Right now lifetime purchase isn't available, but I believe ljdawson has talked about it being in the works.