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Cake day: June 18th, 2023
  • Pillarist@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•It's so nice to see them all growing, but this is just the truth, sorry.English
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    1 year ago

    This is genuinely a tough position to address, as I see both parties’ sides. I can’t blame a dev for setting up a system to ensure he gets paid, I’m on antiwork with a lot of you, raging out about how minimum wage hasn’t gone up and employers want to squeeze every last drop of labor out of their employees and give them as little possible in compensation… and I also see the side of wanting the spirit of greed (the source of Reddit’s choices that caused the exodus) to not have soil to take root here…

    In Sync’s defense, it’s so far ahead of any of the FOSS apps I tried while I waited for it to release that I don’t think it’s greedy for the dev to set up a system to earn some compensation for their efforts and whatever ability enabled him to create an app so far ahead of the other Lemmy apps. I wonder how much these other poor devs have made from their work on the other Lemmy apps that have sprouted… might explain why they’re lacking in comparison, they can’t put as much effort into their app while holding a full time job because unless there’s an incentive to compensate, the comments in response to Sync’s release have made it apparent that a lot of the lemmy preachers of FOSS are really just cheapskates, whose attraction to the “ethos” is the free stuff, not the principle.

    On the other hand, I can understand the price point and the subscription system aren’t exactly what many expected or view as “reasonable.” For me, $1.99 a month doesn’t bother me, I make enough to cover that from Google Opinion Rewards so it’s no money out of my pocket. If that amount is too much, go to Network Settings and add “DNS.adguard.com” to your private DNS provider hostname field and don’t pay for it. I still don’t think it’s worth not using the app because you think the dev is greedy for not wanting to work for free. That mentality keeps up, the spez’s will start taking notes from us on how to get folks to provide services with no compensation at all!

  • Pillarist@lemmy.worldtoAndroid@lemmy.world•How does everyone here feel about foldable phones?English
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    1 year ago

    I tried the Pixel Fold because I’ve been using their phones since the Nexus days. I went into it very skeptically… Meaning I made sure I was thoroughly aware of the return policy.

    I’m sold. Weight doesn’t bother me and the benefits of being able to swap into a screen with that much real estate for viewing, multitasking, playing games, etc far outweigh a little thickness and weight. It fits in my pocket way better than I imagined and the front screen is actually more functionally sized that my 7 Pro’s due to how damned tall it is! If you’re not hard on your phones (I don’t imagine it takes a beating as well as a regular phone) then I suggest you give it a shot. I’m definitely never going back.

  • Pillarist@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Lemmy is so good right now because there are no kids hereEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think the influence on Reddit was deeper than a lot of people have considered. The hivemind was so strong it made it difficult to have decent and useful discussion, even the puns that muddied down nearly every post’s comments achieved that end. The amount of posts I’ve seen of people feeling much more comfortable actually interacting on Lemmy, in my mind, lends weight to how Reddit wasn’t a place for objective dialogue. That’s why it felt so adolescent, like sitting at a high school lunch table.