• chargingtriceratops@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Reddit had considerably more users when Sync was created- so smaller amount per person over larger user base would pay for the bill.

    With Lemmy, user base isn’t there yet to create that same economies of scale - so to pay for the dev’s time - each person would need to pay a larger amount.

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      1 year ago

      You can’t compare Reddit and Lemmy. They are different with a different model. Lemmy rely on donation. Reddit has ads and investors.

      The dev of Sync did money with Reddit but Reddit had a source of revenue.

      Lemmy relying on donation doesn’t have this source of revenue. This is why splitting the revenue of Sync between Lemmy’s devs, instances and Sync’s dev is fair.

      If someone donate to the Lemmy’s devs and/or instances, this person allows the sync’s dev to make money on this donation. This isn’t fair.

      The sync model with Lemmy is predatory at best and parasitic at least.

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      1 year ago

      80% of the app is the same. It’s not like he spent years creating a new app from scratch. I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve compensation but I feel like he’s being a bit gougey in this situation.

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        1 year ago

        I mean that’s literally how business works - amount needed to be profitable / number of customers = base price.

        Reddit had millions of users, lower price per person.

        Not to mention the literally free version!

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        1 year ago

        I’m pretty sure he had to rewrite all of the code related to network and the API, and that’s not little work. Thats weeks worth of work including testing