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It's so nice to see them all growing, but this is just the truth, sorry. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Sync is just so much more polished and feature-rich than all of these already... It's exactly like how it was when it was for reddit, and it's just one dev! I don't mind at all paying for a fantastic app.

You guys are taking the justified corpo hate and extending it to talented individual devs just making a living.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FOSS isn't about "corpo hate". It's about freedom. There's a philosophy behind it. You can, of course, disagree with it, but I think you should know what you're disagreeing with.

If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the developer or “owner” of the program, that controls the program—and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm talking about the community. A large part of the community absolutely is about gate-keeping and hating on corporations... and now devs too apparently.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A large part of the community absolutely is about gate-keeping and hating on corporations

I haven't seen that at all. Hate doesn't bring you far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have and it's good and cool.

Well maybe not gatekeeping. But hating corporations...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, until he gets an attractive buyout offer from an SEO company who wants to get into data mining.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hating on someone based on unfounded hypotheticals is fucked up. LJ has always been very open with the community for the whole time Sync was on reddit.

Username checks out ig?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wow, that is "hating" in your world? I wish I lived there. Take it down a notch, dude.

Yes, I am talking about potentials; potentials that simply do not exist in the FOSS world but happen every day with commercial software. A significant difference between an independent dev and a libre project is that you own the libre project. No one can ever take it away from you. You merely borrow it from the independent dev, and in that way, and speaking as a frustrated developer myself, every single one of them suck in all the same ways that every single corporation sucks. There's no difference. That's not hate, that's pragmatic realism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So what exactly is the problem here? If Sync gets bought and you don't like the new owner, you can stop using it and move on..