In many ways, Mastodon feels like rewinding the clock on social media back to the early days of Twitter and Facebook. On the consume side, that means that your home feed has no algorithm (this can be disorienting at first).
Practically, it means that you see only what you want to see and only see it linearly. You never wonder “why am I seeing this and how do I make it go away?”. Content can only enter your home feed via your followed tags or handles and the feed is linear like the early days of social media.
Izzy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Put it simply I just hate ads. Anything that puts in ads is terrible. Including Sync for Lemmy who seems to have completely missed the point of getting the hell away from Reddit.
emptyother@programming.dev 1 year ago
I disagree. I hate ads with a passion too. But as long as we can pay a sum to remove it, it is fair to have a free option with ads. A kinda unlimited “demo”.
We are fools for thinking anyone would give away their own time and effort for free forever. We have completely lost the perspective of how much things should cost because of how much we’ve taken for granted that was paid for with our personal data. And the biggest fools is those who think most software developers and server admins can live reliably on donations alone.
Though Youtube is taking the ads a bit far, maybe. One shouldn’t scare away users before they have even become customers.
ryncewynd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Absolutely agree with your comment.
I don’t really know the solution either… I can’t afford to pay for all the things I enjoy online.
I was considering supporting 1 Twitch streamer I enjoy until I saw subscription cost. And if I paid that for every streamer or YouTuber I enjoy, I’d be broke in a single day lol.
I get so much incredibly good info and discussions online about my hobbies, all for no charge.
I used to subscribe on Patreon to my most useful resources/people, but in the end I just could afford it and had to cancel all my Patreon
I hate ads but I don’t understand how the internet would function without ads. No one could afford it
TheRaven@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Agreed, but even if free ad tiers exist, web trackers have to also exist to track everything you do, just in case you use the ad tier again.
Privacy shouldn’t be something unaffordable.
Izzy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I disagree. Paying to remove ads is one of the core problems with ads. If the only way to develop your software is either to frustrate them enough to pay to remove ads or have ads then your software shouldn’t exist. You don’t get to do something bad just because there is an option to pay them to stop doing that bad thing. That doesn’t make it right. The whole concept is basically like a really mild protection racket.
Marsupial@quokk.au 1 year ago
Um Linux and FOSS, kinda show you wrong in that many people are happy to see others use their work for feee.
We are fools for thinking capitalist solutions are the solutions we need.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 year ago
The second ads are required the customer stops being the users and starts being the advertisers. This starts the enshittification snowball.
wahming@monyet.cc 1 year ago
It’s a good thing you have the option to pay to remove ads and stay the customer, then
wahming@monyet.cc 1 year ago
When’s the last time you developed and released a full fledged software project for free?
veloxization@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Izzy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you are suggesting ads are the only way to fund software then you are mistaken. For example you can sell it for money to consumers.
Hexagon@feddit.it 1 year ago
Wrong. The next terrible thing is mass-AI-generated propaganda and disinformation. Like in the “dead internet” theory
OpenStars@kbin.social 1 year ago
Next? I think you misspelled "current":-D
sparr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Web of trust solves this problem, until people start intentionally trusting AIs as much as they do other humans, at which point it’s no longer a problem.
vonbaronhans@midwest.social 1 year ago
I just paid the one time fee for no ads. Works for me.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This is only FOSS bros making a bigger deal than it should, I like FOSS I use FOSS but they need to chill a bit.
Geert@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It would suck if Sync was the only option but it’s not. Nobody forces you to use it. You have such a hateboner for Sync it’s ridiculous. So the guy asks money for his work, who fucking cares.
Izzy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It just happens to be a great demonstration that there can be no exceptions to eliminating ads. People seem to agree that ads are bad, but then have no principles or conviction when presented with the slightest inconvenience. “Guy just needs money” is not a good enough reason to change my opinion to ads are actually good. I’m not sorry. This has nothing to do with Sync or this person in particular.
It’s just the ad driven business model as a whole.
te_abstract_art@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I hate ads too, but devs have to eat so why should we not pay them when we use an app or service they spend countless time making and maintaining?
Sync is a one-time payment of £17.99 / $20 to remove ads and for the amount I’ll be using this app, I think that’s absolutely fair. I’ll spend more on one takeaway pizza on a Friday night.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If there is one reason to support ads, only one reason, is for using Sync for Lemmy.
Izzy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What allows this particular piece of software to implement an egregious dark pattern and have it be ok?
MrLuemasG@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We have different reasons for getting the hell away from reddit. I came to lemmy because reddit killed sync. I paid like $3 for Sync in 2014 and used it every day until Reddit killed it without seeing a single ad. So, not only do I disagree with Sync for Lemmy missing the point of getting away with reddit, but I also disagree with the notion that sink for Lemmy is in any way bad for having an ad - supported tier when you can pay a negligible amount of money ( $20 in 2023 ) and never see an ad again for the entire lifetime of the app.
Psythik@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Sync is garbage. I’ve tried every Lemmy app and settled on Voyager. It’s no Relay bit it’s one of the most developed Lemmy apps available.
wahming@monyet.cc 1 year ago
AFAIK pretty much all the lemmy apps are decent. There’s no reason to bash on any of them just because it’s not your preference
jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Are there ads on Sync? I’ve been using it exclusively for the last week or so and haven’t seen a single one.
MrLuemasG@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve been using Sync for Lemmy since it was first released and I still haven’t seen an ad. I’m pretty sure it’s a bug.
Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Bad content feels much much worse to me. E.g it is so infuriating to see those fake prank videos with tons of likes and positive comments. It kills my hope in humanity every time… At least an ad could be for some interesting legit product. 🫠
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Jerobi is great.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Pretty much all the Lemmy clients for Android are great, and I think the iOS clients are very competent too.