Yea this is the thing I keep saying. Who cares about if you're paying $20 for an app if that's what you want to do. Just remember to help out the instances who are running things to make that app work. I think a lot of people realize this and that's great, but I'm sure some people also don't. So, instead of circlejerking about Sync being $20, it would have been better for make one or two posts days ago with that reminder and leave it be. Instead, we see the circlejerk continuing days later.

[–] grrgyle 1 points 7 months ago

I agree. Although I was surprised that my insurance rejected all forms of donation. It's pretty small, though.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My instance shut down donos because they were bringing in way more than they needed and are sitting on years of server costs at current usage. I was donating when they were open, though.

[–] ethLabsAlpha@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A new platform like Lemmy needs to establish trust and reliability for a certain time period before it can expect people to give back something. Something that the Sync developer has established already for a decade now.

Assuming that Lemmy continues to flourish well, I will be perfectly happy to donate to Lemmy, in fact I'm quite sure that in the long run I'll donate a lot more to Lemmy than the one time purchase cost of Sync.

[–] Iamdanno@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I agree. As an immigrant from reddit, I have noticed a lot of server instability. It doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling about the future of Lemmy.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I'm signed up the patreon for mine, they're gonna get more than $20 over time

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My instance doesn't take donations at the moment. I'll definitely contribute once there's something.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

same as well.