I want Sync to succeed for the benefit of the community. Open-source guarantees that the community will always retain that benefit.
I wonder. Is this sentiment common among members of the Lemmy community?
I want Sync to succeed for the benefit of the community. Open-source guarantees that the community will always retain that benefit.
I wonder. Is this sentiment common among members of the Lemmy community?
There’s already one open source Lemmy app - the official one, Jerboa. It’s actually pretty good and getting weekly updates. Someone could use it as base for another app, or simply collaborate on GitHub to add new features.
I don’t think it’s fair to expect Sync to be open source, and I can almost guarantee that your payment of 15x the normal amount would still be too little versus how many versions will be compiled and distributed for free with premium features enabled. Unlike iOS (thankfully!) Android allows any .apk to be installed, which also means most paid open source apps either: bundle super annoying and broken DRM activations… Or lose a lot of money due to the huge amount of people sideloading it.
Only thing is they broke Jerboa with the new website update lol
I guess, but that would happen with any app. Basically, to fix some bugs they had to rewrite the api, which causes incompatibility between versions, it’s inevitable and would happen regardless of if it was open or closed source
Not really. Jerboa and is made by the same people who made the WebUI - they purposely synced the two updates.
It just so happens that the new UI is missing a feature most admins want, so they’re delaying the update. But in theory, Jerboa would’ve been perfectly compatible from day one.
And if you don’t log out, you can actually keep using Jerboa (with a few crashes, yes) on outdated instances.
I’m using jerboa on this instance right now
It crashed several times trying to log in, but i got there, and now it works fine
Oh, so the crash on login goes away eventually? I got a few crashes in a row and gave up. Should I continue trying until it works?
To be clear, I don’t expect it. I’ll be happy either way to see tools developed that encourage the use of Lemmy over reddit.
Being open-source would be an additional value proposition that I, and maybe many others, would happily pay for. I use Jerboa, and will probably continue to use it.
Maybe this is not apples-to-apples, but my favorite audio-book player has separate free and paid versions only differentiated by the presence of dark mode. It’s such a trivial thing to paywall that it comes across to me as a respectful petition for generosity. I bought the paid version and then gave multiple tips through the in-app purchase.
There are actually a lot of apps already that are open sourced - you can find a list of them at https://lemmy.world/post/465785
That depends on how many people feel the same as me, and I know how we could find out.
While it seems to have fallen out of favor, crowdfunding is excellent at helping to resolving that kind of uncertainty.
@ljdawson, please consider how much it would be worth to you, and start a campaign. Go open-source If the target is reached.
I’m not LJ, but I’m a software developer myself. And let me tell you one thing - if something is free then 99% of users won’t pay anything. And it doesn’t matter what they say on forums and how much they want to pay. Free is such a good price that people are willing to sell their soul and give up their privacy for free shit. If that wasn’t the case, Facebook would die many years ago, but here we are.
So, regarding to your “That depends on how many people feel the same as me” - you’re alone in this, mate.