With that price I feel like the dev has 0 faith in lemmy getting very big and feels like they need to capitalize on the currently few users to make back costs. I mean, not even an early access price considering its in beta still
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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Yeah this feels like early adopter tax. Get your money off people who don't blink at stuff like $100 for a beta app for a small reddit that's literally just a front end.
Then lower the price slowly. Like I feel like there are more Lemmy apps than Reddit ones. It's pretty gauling to charge so much and essentially take everything from server owners by putting this up front for people trying it from Reddit.
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With that price I feel like the dev has 0 faith in lemmy getting very big
It feels kind of the opposite to me.
Going back and checking my Google account history, I paid $1 for Sync Pro. In 2012. And was using it up until last month. In retrospect, that was far too low a price for the utility I got out of the app for literally years.
If anything, it feels like the dev has learned that lesson and has priced the lifetime option where it's actually sustainable for them if Lemmy stays around.
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The literal opposite. I'm working on this fulltime and giving it everything I can.
And this is why I don't mind the cost increase from old Sync.
I bought Sync Pro all the way back in 2014, and considering how long it's been since then, plus the sub-2 month delivery time for Sync for Lemmy, I think you've more than earned an ultra sub from me!
Thanks for the hard work.
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That's very cynical point of view. This is for the Ultra version, which incurs recurring cost to the developer for providing extra features which requires running some servers on their side. I myself spent that much just for running a Lemmy server for two months. They still have one time $20 option that don't include services that require the external servers.
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God damn thatβs expensive.
Yeah, this Dev seems to be counting on the idea that everyone in lemmy will forget that there are perfectly good free apps out there, and that all the other 3rd party Reddit devs are working on their own lemmy versions.
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Way too expensive.
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Lol. I uh. Guess I didn't want a one time payment option after all.
I'm pretty sure there's still going to be an ad free one time payment though, Sync ultra has more than just ad free browsing. Personally I only want to remove the ads so if it's priced like the pro version was then I'll be happy
It's $20 USD to just remove ads permanently.
Oof yeah I just saw, that's a bit pricey for me honestly especially because Lemmy doesn't really have enough content at the moment to spend a lot of time on...
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The ad-free version is already available fΓΌr 21,99 β¬. Not going to lie, I expected the old reddit prices and was going to buy Ultra lifetime for 33 β¬...
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I know I'm cheap and I know this app is great and is a lot of work but fuck, this is expensive. Subscriptions are the worst model capitalism can offer. And the one time payment price is ridiculous, I can't afford that.
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$50 wouldn't have nearly as much of a negative reaction. $100 is awfully steep for a community as small as Lemmy.
But I'm glad the yearly sub is only $17, so I may get that instead.
I personally would never pay a subscription for a 3rd party Lemmy app. That defeats some part of why I moved to Lemmy to begin with.
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at that price you could afford the reddit api.. not that i'd want to
I think the ultra price for reddit was like 30 dollars for lifetime. 100+ bucks just seems like way to much.
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My last app, Now for Reddit, charged $4 to unlock all the features of the app, including no ads.
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wow isn't that like 6 years of subscription? so expensive
I mean, I used sync for reddit for like 10 years.
Yeah, but Lemmyβs a newer platform and might not stick around for 6 years, IF it takes off like Reddit did. $100 is a bit too steep, if Iβm being honest.
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Just use FOSS apps for Lemmy. There are plenty good ones. Thanks to all devs and contributors!
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Nope
That's wild. Like man I'm impressed with Sync and think it's great but you'd have to be using it for 7 years for this to be worth it...Lemmy is so new you'd be mad to be making a gamble like this.
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I pass
Just run your phone through a free private DNS server and never see an ad again. I use dns.adguard.com.
None of my free apps show any ads on my phone.
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βΉ9900!!!
I bought 2 smartphones for my friends last month. Combined total cost of those was roughly βΉ10200.
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Lifetime wasn't available when I subscribed. :(
I assume that's $100 USD in America?
It's expensive, but Sync is literally the best app on my phone, and has been that way for a long time. I'd consider it.
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Yikes
Yea no.
I feel like the dev is trying to cash out, his apps good but reddit screwed him so I do kinda understand but he's priced me out.
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