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 difference is I use YouTube and YouTube Music for hours a day. I’m on Lemmy maybe an hour a day. I’m not paying any subscription for a free service. I wouldn’t even pay for YouTube Premium, but I’m an original Google Music adopter, and their music algorithm really knows what I like.
I gave up Netflix, so I can stomach the cost increase this one time. Maybe my mood will change when the price increase hits later this year.
You aren’t. That would be your Lemmy instances patreon (or similar). I hope you support your instance because otherwise this entire service could fail.
You’re paying for the slick presentation and app features with Sync. I’m a software engineer. It is difficult work. Time consuming. Risky as well given this (sync) is literally the dev’s full time job.
That’s the beauty of third party apps; you can find a best match for you. But there will almost always be a quality and feature gap between people doing it for a hobby and people doing it for a career. That is why Apollo beat basically every iOS client. That is also why Sync beat the other Android reddit clients for me. And it has already beaten the free ones for Lemmy in my opinion.
I still want YTM to bring back the I’m feeling lucky radio. I always found awesome new artists to listen to.
Yeah, I miss that as well.