this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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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.
Same. I write FOSS software in my free time and also paid.
That's awesome. :)
It's just a meme because when Sync launched it was all over everyone's feeds. I don't think as many folks are as angry about it as it seems but it's definitely a good topic for meta memes.
Im just happy for the influx of posts commenta and votes since sync launched.
Before it was a good day if a post got 50 upvotes Now its common to see 200+ and theres a ton more comments.
Its improved the experience in my opinion.
If you are not paying for Sync you are getting ads. So you are still paying (attention, data, you are the product).
Additionally proprietary software has some long term disadvantages that are not visible at first. This is why one needs to always inform people about it as they do not understand these disadvantages.
The biggest issue is that the owners of the proprietary code can change its course whenever they like it. See for example the Reddit Apollo Dev who would have sold out the community for 10 million dollars:
See his own published audio and the discussion on HN:
https://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-31-end.m4a
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36245906