this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Do you people just hate anyone who receives money?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

*bucket

snatches at one of your aft claws get back down here you hothead!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

People in general are very interested in the politics of who deserves recognition (in whatever form) over others. Fundamentally it's about an instinct towards "fairness."

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh no my $20 for a lifetime purchase of removing ads from an app I've enjoyed using for like a decade. 🥱

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think the point of the post is ain't nobody donating $20 to the Lemmy platform or host or other apps

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This meme implies that Sync is taking all the donations though. The people donating to Sync didn't stop donating to Lemmy to do so

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

Yea this is the thing I keep saying. Who cares about if you're paying $20 for an app if that's what you want to do. Just remember to help out the instances who are running things to make that app work. I think a lot of people realize this and that's great, but I'm sure some people also don't. So, instead of circlejerking about Sync being $20, it would have been better for make one or two posts days ago with that reminder and leave it be. Instead, we see the circlejerk continuing days later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I agree. Although I was surprised that my insurance rejected all forms of donation. It's pretty small, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My instance shut down donos because they were bringing in way more than they needed and are sitting on years of server costs at current usage. I was donating when they were open, though.

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

A new platform like Lemmy needs to establish trust and reliability for a certain time period before it can expect people to give back something. Something that the Sync developer has established already for a decade now.

Assuming that Lemmy continues to flourish well, I will be perfectly happy to donate to Lemmy, in fact I'm quite sure that in the long run I'll donate a lot more to Lemmy than the one time purchase cost of Sync.

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

Sir that's not your $20, that's ops money to decide what you do with it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I saw an earlier post that showed Lemmy's recent rapid growth followed by a plateau and then slight decline. My feeling is that there is a very LOUD minority of Lemmy users that are trying to act as self-anointed gatekeepers and they're bringing the platform down as a direct consequence. It makes the platform look petty and small to new and existing users alike. If the top posts are continually about shaming other users then this platform isn't going to last. Let's focus on building communities and having interesting conversations rather than one upping each other.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Nailed it. Some users are intent on making this reddit 2.0 with all the baggage. Ive seen entire subs be spam downvoted because some user had the time and hate.

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

When Sync lauched it was all anyone was talking about. I don't see the memes for and against Sync as people actually upset I just think it is the meta topic of the week. Like when beans were a meme following the "how can I not poop for three days?"

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

The Poop Warrior shall live on in our memories.

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

that may or may not be the case, but the reality of the situation is that it makes the whole foss community look a whole lot more off putting

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

very LOUD minority

self-anointed gatekeepers

top posts are continually about shaming other users

Crabs in a bucket. No one's allowed to succeed, unless everyone™ does.

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

They spent a month shitting on reddit now there's something new to shit on

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Leave reddit cause you can't use your preferred app anymore. Come to Lemmy, and get beat over the head for your choice of preferred app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's more like one dev made the best user experience on lemmy, so people give him money. At least that's the case for me.

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

Same. Dedicated sync for reddit user, now that sync for reddit is dead, I'll follow the sync dev and support him with my Dollars

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Alright your meme worked.

picture of monthly Patreon subscription going through

I already bought Sync, but I'm on lemmy every day, and my instance doesn't accept donations. May as well pitch in a little bit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Use Lemmy, y'all!

Nooo not like that!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But im using sync for free.

Why are people so angry about this?

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

Well you see, it's important to aggressively gatekeep anything that people start to use and enjoy.

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

The people who are actually angry tend to be FOSS advocates. I think they were assuming Sync would have a FOSS type option for users, and were surprised that wasn't the case.

The rest of us just think it's funny.

I'm a sync user, btw

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

I'm a FOSS advocate, and I have the $20 Sync ad free.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Same. I write FOSS software in my free time and also paid.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

To be fair, Sync for Lemmy is very good and I use it :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

No, my data is not tha big

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

This whining is so pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Hey are you db2 from reddit who used to be into vapes?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why a antisemitic meme? Do you hate Jews?

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

Sees greedy businessman bourgeois -> thinks it means Jews. You sure you aren't the anti-semite here?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This image is awful. Rich assholes would never allow the pipe to drip.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure I would call the dev of sync a rich asshole. It's only one dude and the app is livelihood. He is very responsive to input and very good at what he does. It's a great app. Or it was, for reddit. Currently still some growing pains but impressed how well it is considering it's been only one month.

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