I think now is a great time to remind everyone, like sync's developer, Lemmy's developers need to be paid too! The amount of time all the devs put into making lemmy exist, in my opinion, should be worth some of your money. If you can afford it, donating to the people who develop lemmy and/or the people keeping your home instance up will accelerate the incredible growth of lemmy!

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[–] spaxxor@lemmy.world 142 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That's how things should work honestly. Those that can chip in, should. A beer every so often goes a long way. It's honestly something I barely notice in my finances too. This time it goes to something I believe in instead of a twitch sub lol.

[–] Feugnis@lemm.ee 60 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Don't get me started on twitch subs. Supporting a creator you like is fine, but spending 100s of dollars on gift subs is so stupid.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Twitch looking at their top creators leaving for other platforms.

Increasing our revenue share, unilaterally, should fix this.

[–] protput@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Eli5 gift subs?

[–] orientalsniper@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Subs = subscriptions.

A sub on Twitch gives you a badge and special emojis on your subbed channel (streamer).

You also have the option to gift (randomly) 1, 5, 25, 50, 100 subs to random followers (users).

A sub costs $5 in the US, you can gift 100 subs ($500) if you want to.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yep! The developer of Connect for Lemmy is getting caffeinated on a regular basis by me. It's a perfect fit for the RIF gap in my heart. ;)

He/She(?) is doing an awesome job and it's amazing how far this app has come in just a few short weeks. I am trying to keep the dev motivated as much as possible, for sure!

My only gripe is that it's not open source, but that is OK.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

"They"

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Agreed, I started donating to Lemmy as soon as I switched, and I'm happy to pay for sync too. I want to support this ecosystem.