I saw an earlier post that showed Lemmy’s recent rapid growth followed by a plateau and then slight decline. My feeling is that there is a very LOUD minority of Lemmy users that are trying to act as self-anointed gatekeepers and they’re bringing the platform down as a direct consequence. It makes the platform look petty and small to new and existing users alike. If the top posts are continually about shaming other users then this platform isn’t going to last. Let’s focus on building communities and having interesting conversations rather than one upping each other.
very LOUD minority
self-anointed gatekeepers
top posts are continually about shaming other users
Crabs in a bucket. No one’s allowed to succeed, unless everyone™ does.
When Sync lauched it was all anyone was talking about. I don’t see the memes for and against Sync as people actually upset I just think it is the meta topic of the week. Like when beans were a meme following the “how can I not poop for three days?”
The Poop Warrior shall live on in our memories.
It’s more like one dev made the best user experience on lemmy, so people give him money. At least that’s the case for me.
Oh no my $20 for a lifetime purchase of removing ads from an app I’ve enjoyed using for like a decade. 🥱
Sir that’s not your $20, that’s ops money to decide what you do with it
I think the point of the post is ain’t nobody donating $20 to the Lemmy platform or host or other apps
A new platform like Lemmy needs to establish trust and reliability for a certain time period before it can expect people to give back something. Something that the Sync developer has established already for a decade now.
Assuming that Lemmy continues to flourish well, I will be perfectly happy to donate to Lemmy, in fact I’m quite sure that in the long run I’ll donate a lot more to Lemmy than the one time purchase cost of Sync.
But im using sync for free.
Why are people so angry about this?
Well you see, it’s important to aggressively gatekeep anything that people start to use and enjoy.
The people who are actually angry tend to be FOSS advocates. I think they were assuming Sync would have a FOSS type option for users, and were surprised that wasn’t the case.
The rest of us just think it’s funny.
I’m a sync user, btw
I’m a FOSS advocate, and I have the $20 Sync ad free.
