I’m not trying to be rude here, but please read my post. Paying to remove ads is part of the ad business model. Anyone who pays to remove ads means the developer profited from ads.

Developers should make money. Just not with ads.

That would be a good idea too.

Almost all of Syncs business model is ads. The free version has ads and almost everyone who pays for it is doing so to remove ads. Which is just rewarding the implementation of ads. I also disagree with the concept of profiting from free user content with ads like Reddit does. Which was Reddits primary goal of preventing third party apps. They wanted the ad revenue themselves instead of third parties getting the ad revenue.

The only way this can be acceptable is to not have a free ad version and only have a paid version. That way you are paying for software and not paying to remove ads or profiting from free user content.

Make sure to also link to Lemmy. 👍

It is fine that it is subjective, but this is why reviews from a major corporation don’t make any sense. You want reviews from a large number of individuals so that you can get to know some of their taste to see if it is similar to your own. Then you can make a decent guess if you will also find the thing fun.

Not to mention these major review sites rate on a 7-10 scale which is kind of worthless. They are also effectively bribed by game studios so it is actually worse than worthless. It is actively harmful to finding out the truth.

For sure. I don’t mind moderating on Lemmy because nobody is making any money here. I’m doing something because I want to. However, I’m not going to do something even if I want to if someone else is making money from my efforts and not giving my me fair share. Whatever that may be.

Probably just fools. Working for a corporation that makes money from your work without sharing any of it with them. Nobody should be moderating on Reddit without getting paid.

Moderator rewards program? How much money are they going to be paying them?

The fact that there is an ad version at all as a UI front end to an ad free FOSS back-end is a bit shameful. People buy it because they want to get rid of the ads. If they just sold the software with no free with ad version then they would be acceptable.

It’s not about the cost. It’s the principle of the matter.

I’ve tried almost all of them and shockingly Jerboa seems the best despite being the first as far as I’m aware.

Sync comes in last for having ads unfortunately. Or basically just disqualified.

Yes, which works for the few, but they know that the majority are completely oblivious and will just consume whatever they are given.

As long as they let you display the site onto your monitor you will be able to manipulate what you see. This is a pointless arms race that only wastes peoples time.

It should also not involve businesses or work at all. I don’t want to be in a bad excuse for a VR video game during a business call.