Same
A random person on lemmy
Banner art from Deemo switch version
Same
While I like spotify for music there are three things that bug me about it:
Anker.fm ads. Just a rant I hate anker.fm auto injection ads. If you try sleeping to a pod cast it wil go from normal volume TO SHOUTING ABOUT STATEFARM OR DUNKIN. While this issue also occurs on third party podcasting apps spotify dynamically injects a banner ad into podcast art and hyperlinks the ad. I might be overeacting (I hate these kind of deeplink ads). To be clear I don’t mind host read ads like linus sponsor shoutouts but dynamic ad injection is awfull.
No chapter support
Podcast republic is a good alternative (assuming your just planning to use it on mobile/web)
In the case of this instance (lemmy.fmhy.ml) it appears to be self funded by the admins
Q: Can I donate?
A: We appreciate that people want to support us, but we never have and never will accept donations. We maintain this project because its fun and we want to help others, not make money.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/comments/xrxen7/faq_support_thread/
However currently for others instances donations seem to be the primary method of funding (beehaw has a nice cost breakdown)
Edit FMHY link to beehaw post:
https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/509214
Beehaw direct link to post
Spotify since I use ios and android. I also prefer there algorithm more and integrations (discord, samsung watch, etc).
Lemmy is actually interesting as there could be four implementations (or five if you consider none).
Just some thoughts
Whats wrong with having an option? I’m not saying it should be manditory 😉
^This
Additionally some times I just open lemmy (and Reddit in the past). To check inbox. Push notifications disables that need (no notifications = conversation hasn’t progressed much = no need to open app 😉).
I love wefwef/voyager. This might not be a normal feature people use but I love wefwef’s deep linking feature (on android). I have a push notification system for lemmy which detects incomming emails from lemmy and uses ntfy to send reddit sync like push notifications. In wefwefs case I can set ntfy to open voyagers inbox directly. Voyager is also nice since opening a unread message (or interacting with it) auto marks it as read (which I don’t believe other clients do for some reason, I could be wrong though).
wefwef working for me weird
The front end ui is down. Thirdparty apps that use lemmy api still work.
A bit of a problem Lemmy doesn’t support background push notifications (when not opened in browser tab).
Currently apps like memmy rely on a server to poll Lemmy servers (say ever min) to check for new messages then relay a push message.
Problem is this isn’t very scalable (dev reported 3gb of bandwidth used for only 800 accounts).
Maybe lj could go down the swift backup route where purchases are tied to a Google sign in to avoid play services? You could buy the app from Google play via web, download it via aurora, then validate via in app login.
https://swiftapps.org/faq#whygoogle
Down side is lj would need a verification server (although he has servers for Reddit sync Imgur which he could repurpose for billing).
Disclaimer I am not a dev just a rando lemmy, Lemite? (Idk what to call a lemmy user)
Second question would the US gov consider google “to big to fail” and just inject a ton of money to restore it (or give enought time to break it up)?
Kinda curious 😉
I doubt people will pay for a windows subscription. Most will stay on 10/11 indefinitely and Microsoft will probably backtrack pretty quickly (look at windows 10 to 11 migration) 😉
Nice 👍
Although soon you probably will be able to use static hosting like GitHub pages since Lemmy 0.18.1 fixes cors.
I’d presume so based on reddit sync (monitization primarly from ads and iap). Apollo’s dev at one point made another app (primarly for killing amp links) that was paid and open sourced it, however he had issues with low effort copycats.
https://github.com/christianselig/Amplosion
The bright side of a closedsource app is in certain cases it can encourage faster development since the dev can work on it part/fulltime (idk how syncs revenue worked).
To be clear the post above is my personal view (I could be completly wrong).
Thanks for the suggestion for catbox.moe. Initially I was using imgur due apple shortcuts integration and api for tasker. However after trying out catbox.moe I relized their api is FAR more simpler than imgur to use (no junk json). Also unlike imgur it doesn’t redirect to an ad filled site on mobile 🙂