The app offers different functionality and designs, which someone has to spend time making or maintaining
Lemmy has a lot of different options for how you can access it between the different front ends, open / closed source, or free / paid. You’re encouraged to find the options that work best for you
I like Boost, and I’m happy to do a one time payment for it
The mobile website and its functionality depend on the admins of each instance. I don’t expect server admins to also be UX designers, and neither of those things are free. Lemmy is a free software platform, but it costs time and effort to run it.
Also, native apps can take advantage of system resources without needing the overhead of the browser. I’m fine paying for someone to undertake that additional burden.
Yikes, only Voyager offers a good mobile web interface, and it is definitely a slower experience than Boost, Sync, Summit… Heck even Voyager standalone app.
Those free Lemmy apps cost time and effort to create and maintain; if people want to give their stuff away for free, that’s their business. In any case, I tried those other apps, and I didn’t like them (likely because they’ve put hobbyist levels of effort into them rather than a paid-worker’s amount). And because they’re free, I would never dream of asking for more features (which is tantamount to saying, “Yo, dev. Give me more free shit!”).
Besides, we’re talking about a few dollars to support a single dev. Not like Ruben has teams of people working for him in some faceless megacorp making billions of dollars.
Boost has the features I like with the layout I like, and I paid a few dollars mainly as a tip to the dev, which just happens to come with the added benefit of no ads.
Pretty sure that’s Google’s deal. I don’t think the dev gets to decide which ads they show you.
ETA: Also, just buy the app. It’s a few dollars, it helps pay for the development, and you never have to see any ads.
Fr. Buy the app. Make your life better.
Non-Play Store Tablet. Bought the app, still get the ads… Pi hole for the win!
That… sounds like something that you should reach out to @rmayayo@lemmy.world and talk about.
Love me pi hole
Why the fuck do we buy apps when the mobile website should work the fucking same for free?
The app offers different functionality and designs, which someone has to spend time making or maintaining
Lemmy has a lot of different options for how you can access it between the different front ends, open / closed source, or free / paid. You’re encouraged to find the options that work best for you
I like Boost, and I’m happy to do a one time payment for it
You are welcome to use that if you prefer.
The mobile website and its functionality depend on the admins of each instance. I don’t expect server admins to also be UX designers, and neither of those things are free. Lemmy is a free software platform, but it costs time and effort to run it.
Also, native apps can take advantage of system resources without needing the overhead of the browser. I’m fine paying for someone to undertake that additional burden.
Yikes, only Voyager offers a good mobile web interface, and it is definitely a slower experience than Boost, Sync, Summit… Heck even Voyager standalone app.
The are so many awesome free Lemmy apps, it’s weird that some people pay for them…
Those free Lemmy apps cost time and effort to create and maintain; if people want to give their stuff away for free, that’s their business. In any case, I tried those other apps, and I didn’t like them (likely because they’ve put hobbyist levels of effort into them rather than a paid-worker’s amount). And because they’re free, I would never dream of asking for more features (which is tantamount to saying, “Yo, dev. Give me more free shit!”).
Besides, we’re talking about a few dollars to support a single dev. Not like Ruben has teams of people working for him in some faceless megacorp making billions of dollars.
Boost has the features I like with the layout I like, and I paid a few dollars mainly as a tip to the dev, which just happens to come with the added benefit of no ads.
Im sure for many it is to support a developer who remains dedicated and has built rapport with their users.
It’s why I bought Sync Pro (twice), and Synfonium, despite there being plenty of FLOSS alternatives.