this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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[–] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Do you people just hate anyone who receives money?

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 months ago

*bucket

snatches at one of your aft claws get back down here you hothead!

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago
[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

People in general are very interested in the politics of who deserves recognition (in whatever form) over others. Fundamentally it's about an instinct towards "fairness."

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[–] drekly@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh no my $20 for a lifetime purchase of removing ads from an app I've enjoyed using for like a decade. 🥱

[–] kenbw2@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think the point of the post is ain't nobody donating $20 to the Lemmy platform or host or other apps

[–] ShustOne@lemmy.one 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This meme implies that Sync is taking all the donations though. The people donating to Sync didn't stop donating to Lemmy to do so

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

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 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Sir that's not your $20, that's ops money to decide what you do with it

[–] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I saw an earlier post that showed Lemmy's recent rapid growth followed by a plateau and then slight decline. My feeling is that there is a very LOUD minority of Lemmy users that are trying to act as self-anointed gatekeepers and they're bringing the platform down as a direct consequence. It makes the platform look petty and small to new and existing users alike. If the top posts are continually about shaming other users then this platform isn't going to last. Let's focus on building communities and having interesting conversations rather than one upping each other.

[–] Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Nailed it. Some users are intent on making this reddit 2.0 with all the baggage. Ive seen entire subs be spam downvoted because some user had the time and hate.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

When Sync lauched it was all anyone was talking about. I don't see the memes for and against Sync as people actually upset I just think it is the meta topic of the week. Like when beans were a meme following the "how can I not poop for three days?"

[–] cinda@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

that may or may not be the case, but the reality of the situation is that it makes the whole foss community look a whole lot more off putting

[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The Poop Warrior shall live on in our memories.

[–] Cjwii@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

They spent a month shitting on reddit now there's something new to shit on

[–] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

very LOUD minority

self-anointed gatekeepers

top posts are continually about shaming other users

Crabs in a bucket. No one's allowed to succeed, unless everyone™ does.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Alright your meme worked.

picture of monthly Patreon subscription going through

I already bought Sync, but I'm on lemmy every day, and my instance doesn't accept donations. May as well pitch in a little bit.

[–] Saneless@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Use Lemmy, y'all!

Nooo not like that!

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's more like one dev made the best user experience on lemmy, so people give him money. At least that's the case for me.

[–] Scrithwire@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Same. Dedicated sync for reddit user, now that sync for reddit is dead, I'll follow the sync dev and support him with my Dollars

[–] Roundcat@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Leave reddit cause you can't use your preferred app anymore. Come to Lemmy, and get beat over the head for your choice of preferred app.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

But im using sync for free.

Why are people so angry about this?

[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The people who are actually angry tend to be FOSS advocates. I think they were assuming Sync would have a FOSS type option for users, and were surprised that wasn't the case.

The rest of us just think it's funny.

I'm a sync user, btw

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm a FOSS advocate, and I have the $20 Sync ad free.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago

Same. I write FOSS software in my free time and also paid.

[–] theragu40@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Well you see, it's important to aggressively gatekeep anything that people start to use and enjoy.

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[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)
[–] CobraChicken@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago

Hey are you db2 from reddit who used to be into vapes?

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

This whining is so pathetic.

[–] ponik@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

No, my data is not tha big

[–] nandi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago
[–] Nadru@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

To be fair, Sync for Lemmy is very good and I use it :)

[–] SRo@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why a antisemitic meme? Do you hate Jews?

[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Sees greedy businessman bourgeois -> thinks it means Jews. You sure you aren't the anti-semite here?

[–] CobraChicken@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago

Hey OP why don't you start by sharing your donation receipts to Lemmy?

[–] bradmont@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago

Who let spez make a Lemmy account?

[–] STUPIDVIPGUY@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago

this is dumb, sync is free

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