And to show your support donate to devs who build open source software and if you want a propraitery software just pirate it.
One of the examples is when people use close sourced lemmy apps more while paying them to remove ads while there are devs making open sourced ad free apps for free i know you may find the other apps more nice or conveniant but guess what if more people support and use their app the devs will work on it faster and gain more contributors and nothing right in life isn’t easy anyway.
There are a lot of good open source apps maintained by devs who is clearly doing it for the love of community and you are not strapped for options and there is some app that fits everyone . And remember those devs are doing this solely out of their kindness and love for community and we should return it as much as we can . Most of the times the open source , community drven versions are far better . These are just my thoughts and only some may agree and remember i am not posting these as facts just an opinion.
You guys may think this is a popular opinion around here but sync for lemmy community alone has more subscribers than jerboa , voyager , and eternity combined and those are very nice apps ( which users can choose from because it caters to different tastes and there are other open source ones too )and from the subscriber count in community we can kinda calculate that is the case of userbase for apps too i also saw a chart about userbase count but i can’t find it so i am using this example which i think is fair.
We tend to attribute value to what we have to pay for, and the more we have to pay the more “valuable” our perception of the product is.
What is received for free tends to be considered “valueless”.
I don’t know, I use Lemmy for mostly free (I try to support my instances from time to time), it definitely has value.
I also don’t have to pay to see my friends, still quite valuable to me.
Ok but a paid app means that you are likely to get support and that it will be kept up to date, whereas a free app can be discontinued at any time, especially if there are just a few maintainers. I know that free != open source, but open source paid apps for Lemmy do not seem to exist at the moment.
You couldn’t be more wrong see if a dev wated to stop updating a paid closed app he can just stop and go you can do nothing about it but in an open source app someone will definetly fork it .
I am more and more convinced that it is not a good idea to maintain an open source Lemmy client. It’s a lesson I am learning day by day.
Aren’t there some complaints at the moment about Sync not being updated that regularly, especially by people who use the paid version?