Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Thanks, world!

That’s exactly how Quebec likes it, honestly.

Does Lemmy have a “best of” community yet? This could be the founding comment.

That, and those platforms are also at the core of their business offering. You’d think it shouldn’t be that hard for them to just offer a business version of those apps that is ad free. But in my experience administering a g-suite org for a couple years, they are absolutely lazy enough to just shovel users on the literal exact same thing they give to the general public.

Sync does not require a subscription. There is a free ad supported mode.

Then there’s me, who actively went hunting for where I could pay for this app as soon as I opened it

This dev has never been anything but respectful of his community. I have no qualms paying him the equivalent of 2 beers a year for something I have used for multiple hours a day every day for more than a decade. Easy value proposition.

The targeted ads thing I guess I get, but I haven’t had ads on Sync for so long it honestly didn’t really phase me because I planned to buy ad free anyway. Hopefully that bit gets streamlined.