Is there a one time payment option to remove ads?

Or is sync ultra the only way to remove ads?

I would love to support sync, but the subscription fatigue is real.

  • wilberfan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    11 months ago

    subscription fatigue is real.

    I LOL’d at that phrase. So true. That being said, $17/yr feels pretty reasonable to me.

    So far, I’m seeing placeholders for ads in my feed–but no actual ads. But I have multiple layers of adblocking set up at home, so…

    • usualsuspect191@lemmy.caEnglish
      275·
      11 months ago

      $17/yr feels crazy expensive. After only a few years it’s the price of a AAA video game which obviously has an order of magnitude more development put into it. The money wouldn’t even be going towards Lemmy where the real costs are since they are the ones actually hosting it all…

        • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          11 months ago

          $1.29 forever

          I miss the days when buying something was actually an option

      • wilberfan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        $17 is almost 20% less than it will cost me to see OPPENHEIMER in 70mm IMAX. The former lasts a year, the latter 3 hours. Which will be more engaging? 🤔

        • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          Your point makes no sense. If we are going by amount of work per hour / price, if Oppenheimer costs 17$,then sync should cost like 2c…

        • usualsuspect191@lemmy.caEnglish
          31·
          11 months ago

          How much of that ticket price went to the projectionist? I feel that would be the equivalent of Sync in this comparison since the actual hosting and creation of the content is elsewhere, Sync is just one person who shows it to you

    • spiritedpause@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      Subscription models only make sense for an app/service that have recurring costs.

      In the case of Lemmy apps, the instances are the ones with recurring hosting costs, not the apps.

      If an app doesn’t have recurring hosting costs, it only makes sense to have one up front payment and then maybe in app purchases to pay for new features going forward.

      Subscription models for an app that’s not hosting anything is just the dev wanting a constant revenue stream, no matter how they try to word it.