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  • mosiacmango@lemm.eetoSync for Lemmy@lemmy.worldUpdate from @ljdawson
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    18 days ago

    The median wage for a programmer in the US is right at 100k. 1-2k/month is 12-24k/yr.

    I cant think of a single person who thinks 12-24% of their yearly salary is “pennies.”

    Either way, those “pennies” came with a commitment. He could have done a low one time cost like sync for reddit and faffed about, but instead he committed to subscription payments, and those carry an expectation of support and features. As a programmer, he know this.

    The simple fact is that people are paying for something they aren’t getting.


  • The talos principle 1 & 2. Playing through 1 now, and it’s excellent. Some of the puzzles are complex, but most can be solved in 5-10 minutes and give a nice “ah-ha!” moment. It reminds me of portal 2, but with a heavier and more ambiguous story about the nature of life and consciousness. Highly recommended.

    Also been playing some Dome keeper and Peglin. Both also excellent in their own ways.


  • mosiacmango@lemm.eetoSync for Lemmy@lemmy.worldUpdate from @ljdawson
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    18 days ago

    I’m betting he had way more than 10. There was a flood of people that signed up when he initially released it, and even today, after a year of “meh to abandoned” effort and a dozen other excellent lemmy apps, lemmy.world is still seeing 5k sync users/month.

    It probably wasent “living indoors” money on its own, but surely 1-2k/month is worth spending a few hours a month on keeping an app updated, right? That was what he was promising when he shifted to the subscription model, but old habits die hard I guess.