Only if you leave your mic unmuted.

This is a troubling advancement, they all are, but the methods of countering this specific one are plentiful.

Really, what’s needed is a more robust mute function with a good voice recognition system that automatically cuts off the mic when you’re not speaking. That, and people need to learn to use push to talk.

And that’s why it’s dead. Because what constitutes “low effort” is a discussion to be had, but that place is just the owner’s backyard where they kick out anything or anyone they don’t like.

The ethos of the fediverse (insofar as it’s completely free with no ads) won’t be sustainable at scale; income for continued development and support does need to be taken into account at some point, and that goes for servers, frontends, apps, etc. Funding from donations only gets you so far. We will have to talk about it some day.

However, it is entirely too soon for ads and subscriptions. This feels openly and brazenly like talking advantage of Sync overly enthusiastic fanclub and the Sync name recognition. Get in early with a big name and start making money before any other big name apps like Boost are released.

This is also the dev that got really hurt over his paying customers not liking when he completely changed the app they paid for under their nose with no option to roll back, and quit pushing updates for a while after that. It was a whole thing.

I’m not paying a dev that can’t handle feedback and has an entire fanclub cheering on literally every single decision.

How is it “in the works”? It’s not hard to implement, seeing as how he already did it.

And no timeline when it’s coming just a promise it will?

Sounds more like he just wants to test the waters and see what he can make.

Liftoff is open source with no ads.

Sync requires a subscription.

would rather not use anything google because of privacy reasons.

Amazon is just as bad if not worse.

This is something of a ticking time bomb, I think. I don’t think the majority of people coming to Lemmy right now appreciate that their votes are public, and sooner or later somebody is going to write a bot or addon that uses that data to harass or censor users and it’s going to be a scandal that scares people away.

Making votes public is a really bad idea because it disincentivizes users to vote how they like, for fear of reprisal. This is quintessential to a democratic system, and to a social media platform.

You want this place to grow, and order for it to grow, users have to interact. They are the engine behind the content aggregation, they should never feel hesitation to vote.