Sync Ultra is a very reasonable $17 a YEAR. YouTube Premium is reaching that per MONTH. I have sync downloaded and it was the first thing I did. Thanks lj for the beautiful app.
[EDIT: That was a poor comparison, as pointed out in the comments. Leaving it for discussion sake.
There are many counterpoints and actually good discussion happening down below. Even if you don’t agree, thanks for showing me a different perspective!
If you want to support Sync, make sure to support the Lemmy Devs and your instance holders as well!
*This post was made early in the day before the update added the OTP option.]
The dev of sync have to split the ads and subscription revenue with the instances. It would be fair like this. He donating 30% of the revenue to them. He is paid and he pays for the usage of the instances.
Youtube premium isn’t the same. Youtube itself has huge server, storage, bandwidth cost and premium is paying for it. The cost of the app is a fraction of it.
On youtube, you have each second tons of new content. What I don’t have inside the app. The content comes from the instances. The equivalent would be paying a subscription to the instances.
The creators receive a part of my subscription what isn’t the case here.
With youtube premium, I have youtube music an additional service included.
In my opinion, the first point is the fairest. The dev splits the revenues with the instances. It would be nearer to the Youtube model.