I think now is a great time to remind everyone, like sync’s developer, Lemmy’s developers need to be paid too! The amount of time all the devs put into making lemmy exist, in my opinion, should be worth some of your money. If you can afford it, donating to the people who develop lemmy and/or the people keeping your home instance up will accelerate the incredible growth of lemmy!

  • Kavhow@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean it’s just a port of the Reddit version that was made by the same dev and had been around for over a decade (with constant updates and improvements), I don’t think enshittification is a given.

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      1 year ago

      Well, compared to Reddit getting filled with “ad looking like real post”, and “ad written as a comment”, and “mass downvote everyone except the ad”… it’s really hard to stoop that low.

      What is likely to keep Sync in check, are the alternative apps. Reddit got enshittified because it became the single point of failure.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think it’s a given and the dev has a proven track record.

      …buuuuuutttt they did move to a much smaller userbase so I wonder how many ads he will need for sustainability.