Sync Ultra is a very reasonable $17 a YEAR. YouTube Premium is reaching that per MONTH. I have sync downloaded and it was the first thing I did. Thanks lj for the beautiful app.

[EDIT: That was a poor comparison, as pointed out in the comments. Leaving it for discussion sake.

There are many counterpoints and actually good discussion happening down below. Even if you don’t agree, thanks for showing me a different perspective!

If you want to support Sync, make sure to support the Lemmy Devs and your instance holders as well!

*This post was made early in the day before the update added the OTP option.]

  • Dr Cog
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    02 years ago

    It’s.the principle of it.

    Sync’s dev is being greedy. Most of the reason why I left Reddit was because they were being greedy.

    I’m not supporting that shit.

  • @JangoF76@monyet.cc
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    92 years ago

    I paid for ultra mainly to support the Dev. Lemmy isn’t good enough for me to switch over just yet but I’ll be keeping my eye on it now that Sync for Lemmy exists.

    • @mysteriousSpoon@lemmy.world
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      12 years ago

      I did the same, though I’m not really a fan of subscriptions. I’ll probably pay to remove ads once my subscription runs out, but I wanted to support LJ. Especially now since sync for lemmy is new, and Lemmy doesn’t have that many users relative to Reddit so the audience for the app is a lot smaller

  • @shapis@lemmy.ml
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    142 years ago

    I bought pro back in 2013 I believe. And lifetime ultra once it came out that reddit was banning third party apps as support.

    I’m not gonna do.a.subscription. I’m just not.

  • Luxinox
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    I would be OK with paying to just remove ads but the price (₱1100) is just too much for me.

    • @bitsplease@lemmy.ml
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      -42 years ago

      The why not just sub for the yearly plan, then immediately cancel - same thing as a one time payment, you get to support the dev, and you don’t have a subscription to worry about

    • DM_Gold
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      -72 years ago

      Okay then how much are you willing to spend? Say around 35 bucks? Developers need to eat too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • Nato Boram
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        22 years ago

        A developer of this caliber can easily get 90K CAD at his day job, and even more in the US.

      • DeadGemini
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        Developers make more money than I do, and I need to worry about my own food first lol. I’d pay $35 one time, but I also remember a time not that long ago where $10 one-time could buy you basically anything on the app store lol.

        I like the app, but I hate recurring fees more. Jerboa is free. It might not be perfect, but it works, is ad-free, is on F-Droid, and is infinitely more affordable than $17/yr.

      • @McNasty@sh.itjust.works
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        42 years ago

        You can pay once to remove ads. There’s a subscription called ultra that adds some features like translations but it isn’t necessary.

          • @FlagonOfMe@sh.itjust.works
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            In Beta 25, in the account switcher in the top left is a “Remove Ads” button. It’s $19.99 one time. No word yet on the price for a lifetime Ultra subscription.

          • @Deiv@lemmy.world
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            -12 years ago

            Yea but it’s ads only, it’s the “remove ads” option. It would be a lot nicer if it was ultra for a one-time fee

          • EnPeZe
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            32 years ago

            For me it’s when you click your account icon at the top left. Then it’s right above the Ultra subscription

            22€ apparently

  • @Acer@lemm.ee
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    712 years ago

    As someone from a third world country, fuck no. That shit is too expensive for me. Maybe to you privileged folk it’s reasonable. To me it’s nonsense.

    I feel shitty about it too since I was a long time sync pro user, I thought sync for lemmy would also have an affordable pro version but fuck me I guess

    • godless
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      -72 years ago

      Ultra =! Pro

      Adfree is available as a separate lifetime purchase for 10 USD.

    • armrods
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      -442 years ago

      Living in a first world country is not “privilege” there are people who didn’t choose where to be born.

      Just use the free app like I did when I lived in Venezuela (I was born there)

  • Willie
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    122 years ago

    I don’t know though, I feel like giving money to an app for Lemmy would kind of be like supporting the wrong person. Especially if you haven’t even donated to your instance’s owner yet.

    • @XanXic@lemmy.world
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      32 years ago

      Yeah it feels a bit wild to add ads to the experience while charging 5x as much to remove them as the Reddit Synce app on a service that people are hosting on good will and at a loss, compared to Reddit being itself ad filled and a premium selling service.

      It’d be different if like some of the subscription went to the servers people use or something. But it really feels like taking from everyone and charging a pretty high price for it compared to any app, let alone a front end only one.

    • Nato Boram
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      72 years ago

      Or to Lemmy’s developers, which makes your instance possible, which makes the third-party app possible.

  • @HRDS_654@lemmy.world
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    -32 years ago

    So speaking of that, it seems like you have to pay per device. I payed for ultra on my phone, but it doesn’t seem to carry over to my tablet.

    • armrods
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      22 years ago

      No, it’s per Google account like any other IAP

    • @Macallan@lemmy.world
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      82 years ago

      I don’t think you need to pay per device. I purchased it on one phone and was able to click the restore purchase (subscription?) on a second phone and it activated it on the second phone.

    • @Kyle@lemmy.ca
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      32 years ago

      I paid on my phone and it also gave me ultra on my tablet. It’s not per device. I don’t think google play even has that functionality.

      • @HRDS_654@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        Weird, maybe it’s just glitched on my tablet. I’ll have to try clearing the cache and reinstalling.

  • @happyhippo@feddit.it
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    302 years ago

    I would start by donating to your home instance, first and foremost.

    But yeah if you love the all you’re using, whichever it is, donate to its devs, too

  • @PsychedSy@lemmy.world
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    32 years ago

    I’m still paying my sync for reddit fee and I bought pro in 2012. I also subbed to the lemmy variant today.

    • @NickCudawn@lemmy.world
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      52 years ago

      Why would you still be paying for reddit sync? If you want to donate, do it directly and not in a way where Google takes 15%

      • @PsychedSy@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        Just haven’t bothered canceling it yet. I wanted to keep supporting them after they asked what we wanted them to do.

  • DeadGemini
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    292 years ago

    I despise recurring fees, so no. $17 sounds good for a 1-time fee though.

    • @McNasty@sh.itjust.works
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      42 years ago

      There’s a one time purchase to remove ads.

      The ultra subscription adds a few features like translations that use cloud services.

      • @Deiv@lemmy.world
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        It would be nice to have a one-time donation option for the ultra version, instead of just removing ads

      • DeadGemini
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        12 years ago

        I’m cool with a 1 time fee to stop ads, but I don’t see how to do that anywhere. I can only figure out how to pay $2/month or $17/year for Ultra

        • @FlagonOfMe@sh.itjust.works
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          In Beta 25, in the account switcher in the top left is a “Remove Ads” button. It’s $19.99 one time. No word yet on the price for a lifetime Ultra subscription.

          Check the Play Store for an update if you don’t see it.

          • DeadGemini
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            22 years ago

            Okay, yeah, I think I had to update (or I’m blind). Thanks! That’s much better!