Comment by Ljdawson (Sync dev)@lemmy.world on Post launch day chat

Afternoon everyone,

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

Pricing

Sync for Lemmy is completely free with ads (the same as Sync for Reddit)
You can remove ads in the account picker or drawer for a one time fee of ~$20
Sync Ultra also removes ads but it’s not required
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!

Edit: testing edit

I’ll be working on this full time and plan to make this the best Lemmy app possible.

I think the pricing is fine if the quality matches it. Considering how much time we spend on our phones it could be great value for money.

I’m very curious to see how the advertising option works out for you, as currently I’m not aware of any lemmy sites with sustainable finance models.

I wouldn’t call it financially sustainable. It pays for the servers, not for the labor.

No offense to beehaw, they’re doing great work.

Most of FOSS doesn’t pay for labor, its volunteers.

That level of transparency is incredible, lowkey considering making an account there…

They’re defederated with lemmy.world and https://sh.itjust.works/. It’s something to consider before joining

Also worth noting at the time they said it was temporary and due to the lack of sufficient mod tools available in Lemmy. If mod tools improve that could change. But yes, right now it’s definitely something to think about with world being a massive instance that m with a lot of larger communities.

I definitely wouldn’t, you’d lose out on half the content on lemmy

Yeah, I read about that too, but what if I make an account on an instance that isn’t world or beehaw? Would I see content from both?

They like to keep a really tight walled garden. That’s why I left, I want to decide for myself which instances to block.

Lemmyworld is quite transparent too: https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld

I wonder if that’s shared with lemmy.world or if that data is just for the Mastodon service?

Shared with Lemmyworld AFAIK

Will you be supporting kbin in the future?

/s before this blows up lol

You joke but the moment Sync supports at least my kbin account to login, I’m sending you that $100 lifetime ultra upgrade with love. Posted from kbin.social on the browser, because I can’t yet login on Sync for Lemmy.

Thank you for adding a one time payment option. Much appreciated.

Yeah, I’m sure of it. Wishing you all the best!

You asked us and we told you to make it, so I’m pleased. I haven’t cancelled my sync for reddit subscription. Will that keep going to you, or will it cancel at some point?

I bought Reddit Sync Pro way back when you gave out coupon codes for a discount when you first created it. (just found my receipt… November 2013 for ONE DOLLAR!!!) Used it for what was probably a decade for that low initial price and watched it just get better and better over time.

I assume that I’m going to be using Sync for Lemmy for a decade, and I have zero issue with the upfront ad free cost.

Aside from regional pricing issues, I think some of these potential customers just don’t realize how much they’re going to be getting from you for this price.

Ultra Lifetime is really tempting…

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