Asking for donations is, again, different than extortion. There's a stark difference between a splash screen asking for funding to continue providing a free service and forcing ads and tracking in exchange for cash to operate on said FOSS platform.
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Just because something receives funding doesn't mean it isn't free. I understand development has costs. Hosting has costs. But nobody is extorting payment for hosting or developing lemmy. As an end user, the service is free to use. That's obviously what I'm referring to.
... They said, on the ad free, FOSS free, free as in beer free, constantly updated and sustained platform.
Posted from my free, ad free, constantly updated, 'fairy tale' Android App.
Does Liftoff offer keyword filtering or blocking instances at the account level?
Glad she's okay, she looks very sweet! And yeah aside from mine being occasionally extra picky, the Merrick seems to be great grain free food
My cats pretended to like that Purrfect Bistro duck until I decided to buy two cases of it, now they won't touch it. They love the beef but it's been impossible to find for a few months now.
Where was that implied at all?
Half my feed is filled with posts about Sync so I decided to finally respond to one. It was a popular app on Reddit for a reason, I'm sure, and I'm simply expressing my opinion on inviting ads and intrusive tracking to this platform.
I'm happily using Connect after using Jerboa for a month. Both work fine and Connect isn't perfect but it's been developed quicky with a lot of changes for user feedback, collects 0 data, has no ads, and offers the most important feature for me - the ability to filter keywords and block instances.
I mean, it's not like Threads but for me anything more than 0 data collection is too much. I saw it linked in another post so I can't say exactly but you should be able to see specifically by finding it on your app store.
I, too, love intrusive tracking permissions and ads.
Oh, wait... no I don't.
there is no such thing as a distinction between "democracy" and "authoritarian".
Lol. Ok.
Pedantic Ass is my middle name, so no worries!
I can't hold it against a developer for wanting to be compensated for their time. It's totally fair to want to get paid for your work. But there are already a number of growing apps that support the FOSS ideals of Lemmy so everything I've been seeing with Sync has just left a bad taste in my mouth.