Well so far everything on lemmy has run on the goodwill of instance owners, lemmy maintainers, and app developers working for free. Sync as far I can tell is the only thing so far to bring an openly capitalist approach to lemmy, and it depends on the free hosting that instance owners are providing. I don't have any problems with people wanting paid for their work. However, I can see how it's a little jarring to see an app charge such a subscription fee while some big instances are struggling with hosting costs and likely pulling in much less in donations.
BaskinRobbins
joined 1 year ago
It's also inherently capitalist. Maybe profiteering would've been a better word? As I stated above, I have no problem with people getting paid for their work. He can charge whatever the hell he wants.