Comment on As an OG Reddit Sync user of over 10 years, all this arguing really brings a tear to my eye. 🥲

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havokdj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁊ ⁨year⁊ ago

Not getting into this argument because I personally don’t give a shit about the whole situation, but that isn’t really how FOSS works.

The software itself is free, the servers themselves are a service however. That is not free, it may be free to US, but somebody is footing the bill.

That being said, if the sync developer is developing an app for a platform that itself does not use ads and relies solely on donation, ethically speaking he should at least donate some of the profit to the Lemmy devs (even if just 1%), considering that the app DOES rely on their software and they themselves are not seeing any of those funds whatsoever. I have no problem with donations whatsoever, but keep in mind that it isn’t like sync is the greatest creation ever made and is totally self reliant, it 100% depends on Lemmy itself to function.

Whether he does or not doesn’t matter to me because jerboa works perfectly fine for me, but that is just my .02. People are really getting way too fucking heated about this shit and seeing it start to infect spaces like shitpost is honestly turning me off to Lemmy.

People are treating the app like the second coming of Christ FFS.

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