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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ljdawson@lemmy.world to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

Afternoon everyone,

I wanted to go over a few points related to pricing, stats and the roadmap


Pricing

  1. Sync for Lemmy is completely free with ads (the same as Sync for Reddit)

  2. You can remove ads in the account picker or drawer for a one time fee of ~$20

  3. Sync Ultra also removes ads but it's not required

  4. I'll be working on regional prices over the coming weeks


There are now 24k installed users up from 100 the previous day!

I'm going to be spending the next few days going through all of the comments / messages and fixing any crashes.

As always thanks for the support and hope you're liking Sync!

Lj

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[-] Polar@lemmy.ca 175 points 1 year ago

I just wanted to say I'm sorry for the backslash you're getting for charging money.

I'm also sorry people expect it to be $1 because the Reddit app was $1 back in 1825. I genuinely believe it's children complaining, because no functioning adult would complain about a price increase when rent has tripled or quadrupled since the $1 Reddit app. It's also annoying to see that people think that saying they bought the Reddit app for $1 and enjoyed it for 10 years is an argument. It goes to show it was severely underpriced.

It must be frustrating to have that type of response. Lemmy users seem to be really entitled when it comes to software, and the response you're getting scares me for the future. I really hope the Boost developer doesn't cancel his app after seeing how entitled Lemmy users are being right now.

What frustrates me more is the people complaining are continuing to use the free open source apps. Like great, you already have an alternative you prefer. Shut up. Stop bringing others down.

I wish you the best. Thank you for choosing to develop for Lemmy. I have my eyes on Boost, but I'm gladly using your free tier for the time being.

Thanks again!

[-] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

they bought the Reddit app for $1 and enjoyed it for 10 years is an argument

Can you share a link for the $1 comment. I am not aware of reddit sync being $1.

[-] GinDaHood@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep. I stand corrected. $1.01. Just check my payment history in Nov 2012.

edit: and this was full price during the early days, I think.

[-] bananahammock@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] spamfajitas@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Someone pointed out the difference in active user counts, too. 2012 Reddit had ~43 million active users. Lemmy has an active user count somewhere around 60-90 thousand.

Point is, if you're a dev looking to recoup some target cost, you'd be looking at a way smaller and riskier user base than the one that Sync saw on Reddit.

Edit: I didn't even notice the dev essentially says that here https://lemmy.world/comment/2017279

It’s priced in a way that allows me to work on this full time. If Lemmy suddenly had 10X users I could bring the pricing down.

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 4 points 1 year ago

Plus it's a more mature product at this point. Sure the back end changed, but a lot of features carried over from Reddit.

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