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[–] 24 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I honestly can't believe what I'm seeing on Lemmy RE: Sync. Lemmy itself doesn't have ads, neither do the iOS apps that I've been using - Memmy (which is AMAZING) and Liftoff, yet here comes Sync injecting ads in and having absurd subscriptions or one time fees...........and I'm seeing comments about people "crying because I'm so happy" and "can't stop smiling" lol.

Seems the reddit app devs who made their millions off the back of reddits free content are now coming here and just going straight to reddit 2.0 money making mode lol. They're now charging people to use their app that is using a free API. These are the same devs that chose to close their reddit apps completely instead of offering a subscription model that would pay for the api access. Make it make sense.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's worth noting they did already have a subscription model in place with Sync for Reddit. The difference would've been in losing the ad-supported free version of the app due to the API changes.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    And instead of just making it subscription only he decided to kill the entire app..........to then come here and milk the Lemmy crowd and show them ads lol.

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