Do you people just hate anyone who receives money?
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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Crabs in a barrel
*bucket
snatches at one of your aft claws get back down here you hothead!
Yes.
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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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.
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.
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?"
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
The Poop Warrior shall live on in our memories.
They spent a month shitting on reddit now there's something new to shit on
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.
Oh no my $20 for a lifetime purchase of removing ads from an app I've enjoyed using for like a decade. 🥱
I think the point of the post is ain't nobody donating $20 to the Lemmy platform or host or other apps
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
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.
I agree. Although I was surprised that my insurance rejected all forms of donation. It's pretty small, though.
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.
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.
Sir that's not your $20, that's ops money to decide what you do with it
Alright your meme worked.
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.
Use Lemmy, y'all!
Nooo not like that!
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.
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
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.
But im using sync for free.
Why are people so angry about this?
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
I'm a FOSS advocate, and I have the $20 Sync ad free.
Same. I write FOSS software in my free time and also paid.
Well you see, it's important to aggressively gatekeep anything that people start to use and enjoy.
If you are not paying for Sync you are getting ads. So you are still paying (attention, data, you are the product).
Additionally proprietary software has some long term disadvantages that are not visible at first. This is why one needs to always inform people about it as they do not understand these disadvantages.
The biggest issue is that the owners of the proprietary code can change its course whenever they like it. See for example the Reddit Apollo Dev who would have sold out the community for 10 million dollars:
See his own published audio and the discussion on HN:
https://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-31-end.m4a
This whining is so pathetic.
No, my data is not tha big
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Why a antisemitic meme? Do you hate Jews?
Sees greedy businessman bourgeois -> thinks it means Jews. You sure you aren't the anti-semite here?
this is dumb, sync is free
Hey OP why don't you start by sharing your donation receipts to Lemmy?
Who let spez make a Lemmy account?
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