I'll throw some money in!

It's like people just can't shut up about this now. Jfc.

I thought the fuss was because of the apparent tracking, not the fact that it's a paid app?

What is that link and who are those people? How do I find out who runs lemmy.world and how do I donate to them?

I just subbed to Sync, I love how it works and the little I can support the dev I am happy to. But yes not everyone is in the same boat.

I support already on Patreon 👍

If the sync dev would be fair and not greedy, he would give at least the 2/3 of his revenues from the app to the Lemmy devs and the instances. Otherwise, I guess instances should be able to block these apps.

I understand everyone need to earn something. And keeping max 1/3 is good.

People need to understand and in priority the people coming from Reddit that Lemmy is not reddit. Reddit earns money with ads and investors. They could inject ads through the APIs and states in the usage terms that 3rd party devs could not remove them. They didn't do it.

Lemmy is a complet other story. Lemmy rely on donations. So, when someone donates to the Lemmy devs and/or instances, the dev of a paid app is making money on this donation. Without the Lemmy devs and the instances, the paid app would not exist at all. It's not fair at all to not share the revenue of these apps.

These paid apps and their devs are at best predators and at least parasitics.