As a software engineer I find it miraculous the amount of people that whine about somebody wanting to get paid for putting weeks, months, and years of their life into a product 100s of thousands of people CHOOSE to use.

Can't we just be happy that we're not on Reddit instead of fighting over which UI we prefer!?

My reply to all the naysayers:

Thanks for making Lemmy feel like home, it wouldn't without you!

The reality is it's a free world, regardless of what morality you put on things there are going to be things that happen that you don't like. That's life.

Like it or not Lemmy has had explosive growth because of apps like Sync. Because of them being killed off by Reddit. If it weren't for the drama of Reddit doing that, I and millions of other users wouldn't be here right now as we'd still be on Reddit.

Even people who weren't using the 3rd party apps left Reddit because Reddit's actions left a bad taste in their mouths.

So, morality of one guy charging for his honest work in creating the paid or ad supported app aside, you should be thanking the apps including sync for helping drive so many users to Lemmy.

If you yourself don't want to use a paid app, then that's okay! We're all allowed to respond or react to things how we want, but being incredibly divisive for something that a lot of people wanted and that really is inconsequential is almost universally frowned on.

Just let people do what they want and don't shoot them down for it. More options for browsing Lemmy = more Lemmings = more content.

Much love my dudes! We may disagree on this but we agree on many many many more things I'm sure, just because we're on Lemmy instead of Reddit in the first place is proof of that! ✌️

People care too much about which app you use. At the end of the day, as long as you're happy with sync it shouldn't matter

Honestly I'm using, and especially posting on, Lemmy much more often now that I have sync back.

I had been using Sync for Reddit for so many years that it became muscle memory. Now I have it back and things just feel right.

Jeroba on mobile, web app inside of firefox with adblockers on desktop.

Well Im trying out sync and it's honestly such a good and polished app. A big Kudos to the dev. Would probably buy the premium if the pricing goes down.

Yeah I feel the same. Used sync for Reddit for YEARS too. I've been using Lemmy way more since Sync launched. I'm happy with it 🤷.

$20 to support a solo dev AND remove ads from his awesome lemmy client? Sweet!

Personally, I don't give a flying fuck what client any of you use as long as you are here. :)

It does seem like a large number of Lemmy users are elitist snobs. I thought this place was turning out better than Reddit, but it's looking like I was wrong. People like that ruin platforms like this and sour the experience.

Surely we can agree it's better to have too many choices rather than having some greedy piggy ban them all.

One thing I didn't like from Reddit, the elitism and gatekeeping posts from its users. OP, I'm right there with you.

yeah i just dont care

Shouldn't an ethical human choose tools that do more good than harm? As long as an application does that, does it matter if it's open source or not? The software we use in our daily lives is a personal choice and people shouldn't be shamed for choosing a closed source application. Especially one created by an independent, craftsman software company. Sync, and other well-designed for-profit clients, benefit Lemmy, an open platform. That benefits all.

Let me add, many of us are social media refugees, fleeing exploitative and closed platforms like Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook. There is also nothing wrong with continually evaluating the closed source solutions we choose to prevent repeating past mistakes.

Gatekeepers are going to be the number 1 threat to lemmy growing

So far the only community I have blocked is the synch for lemmy community, because of the massive spam of posts about synch.

So can we please stop spamming about it in other communities too.

I'm just happy for anything that brings people to Lemmy

I used sync for years and no matter how many times I tried using other Reddit apps I always went back to using Sync. I was happy to see Sync reborn again as a lemmy client. Yes FOSS is nice but I have no problems supporting LJ even if sync isn't open sourced.

I'm home 😭😭