• cakeistheanswer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I have to admit I’m totally soured.

    Serving ads is not cool, and specifically poisoning the Lemmy instance with all the problems of tying near permanent content to an ad ID is negligent.

    No you won’t convince me he had to to make a living, or do you not use wikipedia.

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        There are other methods of monetization besides ads. Such as… selling it.

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          The Lemmy userbase is so small by comparison to reddit. I don’t like subscriptions or ads but my god man’s gotta eat. People get butthurt way too easily over this stuff.

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          Which he is doing with the subscription model. Put your money where your mouth is in that case. Have you supported Lemmy or the 3rd party apps in any way?

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            Is that available yet, or he’s developing it? Or you have to pay ultra?

            Edit: nevermind, found it on the sidebar not under settings.

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            Good to hear. Now remove the ad version and I’m convinced. 👍

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              There’s nothing wrong with having an ad supported version if people want to use it.

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      Are you really trying to compare an app that connects to a service with maybe 2M monthly users to fuckin Wikipedia, one of the best known sites on the internet that’s used worldwide and still has to beg yearly for donations?

      Ads get you free services, welcome to the internet since it’s inception. If you don’t want ads, pay to not have ads. The god damn entitlement here, telling a guy that he should be working for tips.

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        The entire body of issues from the ad supported model are legion and documented by people better than I.

        My point to wikipedia is it’s a charitable model with substantial overhead. The time of the dev is the product here, there is no overhead beyond the play store scrape.

        He can work for what he wants, but he’s shutting where I eat.

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          The entire body of issues from the ad supported model are legion and documented by people better than I.

          So someone told you to hate something and you just went for it full send without understanding it, eh?

          The time of the dev is the product here, there is no overhead beyond the play store scrape.

          He shouldn’t value his own time and effort? Damn you’re entitled.

          He can work for what he wants, but he’s shutting where I eat.

          No he isn’t, just go use a different app ffs.

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      Ads and data gathering are really damn annoying. I’d like to purchase this software, but instead it’s just a monthly subscription. I’m posting this from sync, but I gotta say - if there’s no update removing this stuff, I’m switching back to jerboa.