Person behind Arctius for lemmy :) My other account: delirium@lemm.ee
I like cats and chickens.
Great core gameplay, multiple boring or just bad patches; devs who care more about their imaginary milsim being close to their imaginary reality than about player fun; slow content rollout (still no new race despite them being leaked many months ago)
In the end I had my fair share of fun but I see no real reason to come back.
Yes its one time for android, if you’re earning money with ads or purchases, google will take 1/3 of that amount, then you will have to figure out taxes on your own and there’s also some special policies for selling online goods in India, but if you’re just making apps - its one time fee to be able to upload them to google play store, or you can just distribute with froid/github for free, which is a great route as well
From the perspective of FOSS developer:
I simply don’t want to pay €100 every single year to Tim Apple to make a free hobby app.
Android has more ways to distribute, and the “official” way is one time €25 fee and that’s it.
or else they will block it in norway
More than that, I never saw political or controversial “influencer” content on YouTube at all. It’s mostly tech reviews, memes, travel and photography videos, just exactly what I watch.
Algorithms are so good these days it’s kinda funny to see someone being angry about being offered to watch the same stuff they usually watch
Not like you can’t access their community anymore
If your job lost 70% of its customers, I bet you’d be begging your boss to raise prices to avoid a 70% pay cut.
doing so will result in losing the remaining 30%
I think that asking to be paid for your work is totally fine (albeit I myself made my lemmy app completely free and opensource, simply because its just my hobby project), but its a rather different story when you provide app for open source, nonprofit venture-free platform and start to inject ads and trackers into it. Its goes against the entire idea of free decentralised platform and makes it closer to profit-focused app like reddit/threads/etc imo
contains adds
contains in-app purchases
collects data
shares data with 3d party orgs
Nothing against sync, but this is not what I’d expect from lemmy app tbh. There’s a lot of free open source options that don’t sell your data.
Asking to be paid for your job is OK, but injecting ads in ad-free opensource service, selling user data? This is just reddit-app-moment in my opinion
There’s a lot of free open source alternatives :)
I wonder how many people will be ok with this, considering that there’s a large portion of folks who does not know what’s AdBlock
Well, this is manageable by mods and mini instances etc. More people = more popularity = more good people and more bad people. That’s at least what I hope. :)
This will bring some more potential users who, without threads, would never know that fediverse existed. Then they will surely start adding features that mastadon/lemmy/etc don’t have and it will be the time to pull the plug and defederate them.
Highly doubt that it will bring any harm to mastadon, for example, simply because their userbase does not care about meta crap, but in exchange it will get them some users for free for sure.
Oh, this is actually great news. Thanks for sharing :)
Sure, if you were an user of that instance it will probably suck for you,
Which means we need some way to migrate accounts (even if it will require manual approval of instance owner)
In addition to what others said,
There is also a fear of my own code being judged online.
Please don’t worry about it. This is how you get better in your career/skills. You need other’s judgement to think about your code and how you can improve it and your skills. :) Thats the huge bonus you get out of code reviews.
In the universe with 20-30% of actual inflation development costs will always rise even for indie because devs have to eat something and live somewhere. Not to mention software licensing and equipment