Exactly my current setup :)

Didn’t have to think twice to get Sync Ultra lifetime for the amazing value Sync has been in my life the past 10 years. Even paid for previous Sync for Reddit versions. Easy decision. Thanks LJ

Using a bot for a period of time to generate activity and then disabling once engagement is sustained, vs sticking to humans but have zero engagement… I think it’s pretty clear where the value is. Thanks for creating that bot :)

@RandomDude please!

Edit: another thought, given that this is the fediverse, nothing really prevents the creation of a community (in this instance or another) that has the bot, and experiment to see which approach is most effective.

Edit 2: I just realized, if it’s based on RSS, it won’t auto update if the past is deleted or marked as expired right?

Now B is a cause I can get behind…

As a sync user I support this and would like to see it lol

I subscribe to RSS feeds for subreddits that don’t exist on Lemmy just so that I don’t give them any clicks or ad revenue.

For answers to questions or problems that are only available on Reddit, I turn on my favorite privacy browser, I hold my breath, go to that specific post, get my answer, and gtfo asap.

Like the saying goes, never stick it in crazy. But if you have to, be protected.

Top 6 app behind X (still can’t get used to that stupid name) and before Facebook lite… not bad

This GitHub repo seems pretty straightforward enough to repurpose for bapcsalescanada purposes, to mirror r/bapcsalescanada posts to this community via it’s rss feeds…

I second this. As it currently stands, this community is already dead (last post before the two today was a month ago). And I like the mirroring of posts from r/bapcsalescanada since the source of posts is human in origin.

A quick GitHub search yielded this repo, which could probably be forked to mirror r/bapcsalescanada rss posts to this community. Unfortunately I don’t have the means to host this bot full time.

I have no qualms about building for the future and educating. I fully support that. What I don’t support is the brigading and the lambasting of users who choose to purchase closed or proprietary products. That is their right as much as it is yours to advocate for FOSS.

If “taking everything from us” is the issue, there are appropriate channels and mechanisms to defend against that. If you don’t want your FOSS software to be used in a priority setting, apply the correct licensing models and pursue legal paths. GPL-licensed FOSS is generally and effectively avoided by for-profit organizations. If you purposefully choose MPL or Apache for your license models, that’s really your responsibility for legally protecting your FOSS IP. Apply the right licensing model, it is literally a single button to change it if your source is on GitHub.

You are entitled to make any assumptions you want about my choice. I’m glad you have your criteria for choosing the platforms and apps you like, and I celebrate that.

Unfortunately, you don’t really know my reasoning for my choice of platform and app, so telling me to go to Reddit based on your mis-assumptions about why I like Lemmy and Sync really highlights the core issue here.

Anyway, good luck to you bud. I hope you have a great Friday.

How does PPP relate in this scenario? The price of the goods (in this case Sync) is the same wherever in the world it is available and whatever currency it is offered in, no?

Took me a minute to process, but that is a powerful one. I’m going to borrow that. Thanks for sharing lol

As much as those atrocious combinations give me the shivers, especially docker on Windows, we really should be advocating for the freedom of choice (even if that choice might be the wrong one). People should be free to do what they want, and such freedom should be celebrated.

Oh the irony of this comment… calling others hypocritical and stupid when they themselves don’t have the full context into the reason people beg for Sync… The irony is too strong

Nope, because I don’t have an issue with paying for something that I like and enjoy. Don’t like to pay? Nobody is forcing you to. Stop lambasting others for their choice.

I’m all for FOSS (currently working at a company that contributes heavily to FOSS) and am a huge supporter/contributor of FOSS, but the level of entitlement and superiority complex that I’ve seen from many in the FOSS community (including yours) is highly unappealing, and at times frankly revolting. That’s what truly reeks and stains FOSS.

I guess it’s a matter of perspective and subjective. I see it as paying back for a decade of practically free Sync experience for Reddit that I absolutely enjoyed, and as such I’m compensating the dev for that. Not saying others should apply the same logic (they shouldn’t). But it being a scummy practice is really up to what posting users interpret as value.

Reading this thread on Sync, which I used during Reddit days, I had to remind myself that this was Lemmy. Feels just like Reddit.

People should just let people choose and do what they want lol.

I might be wrong, but I remember reading somewhere in the play store that the rating is also based on a per geography and similar device types…