2y ago

Is LJ okay¿?

The app has not been updated in more than a month and LJ also has not been active on lemmy and this community for nearly a month. Is he okay¿?

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Back when he did sync for reddit, i remember he disappeared for quite a long time(i think half a year or something) before coming back and did a rapid fire of update. In that period of hiatus a lot of post similar to this one pops up too.
- I was more worried this time because this is a full time gig so his absence could not be explained by him focusing on his day job
  
  He's right. LJ has a habit of coming and going. It's nothing new.
  
  Sync was always a full time gig. The company was incorporated some 10 years ago, LJ didn't have a full time job for quite some time.
  
  dude probably taking a break before the next big lemmy update that will break the app.
With the way the Lemmy community treated him for releasing a "non-FOSS" app, I wouldn't be surprised if he bailed. I would've.
- FOSS users the vegans of software.
  
  Nah... The loud foss users are like vegans. Plenty of us are quiet and actually donate to foss groups.
- FOSS is lemmys greatest strength and its biggest flaw. Too much foss nerdery on lemmy and it's boring the average folk.
  
  I wouldn't say boring, I'd say frustrating. You cannot use Lemmy for any kind of tech support if you're not using Linux or FOSS software.
  If you make a post asking for help with a software you need, someone will ignore you and tell you to use some garbage ass incomparable FOSS version. Use anything not Linux? Use Linux, idiot.
  You pay for YouTube premium because it's $5 per month using the family plan, and you're okay with paying a few bucks for entertainment? Go die from cancer. Actually, though, someone called me a racist and a Holocaust denier for saying I pay for YouTube premium since I split it between my family, and it's pretty damn cheap. Their comments were heavily upvoted and mine were downvoted.
  Lemmy genuinely isn't fun anymore. It's so incredibly toxic.
  Oh ya, don't forget the fuck cars community telling me it's my fault my city doesn't have great public transit? Like bro, I moved here a year ago. This city was built hundreds of years ago. How the fuck is that my fault?
- Nah, he didn't care about that at all. Had some lengthy discussions on the topic on the sync discord.
- Or, "I wish I wasn't getting death threats, posts about me attacking my character, all because I released a really good app but included ads so I could get paid for it".
  So again, for the millionth time, Lemmy nerds expect everything to be free and without ads. That's not how life works, and you throw a hissy fit like a child.
  You're going to ruin Lemmy. Enjoy it.
Maybe kidnapped by spez
- Agreed. Possibly even assassinated.
  
  Or worse... expelled
Classic sync post haha
He's gone to Vegas. He's not. But he is probably taking a break. Those late nights and early mornings take their toll, not just on health and well-being but relationships too. Make sure you take a break too.
- Thats good to hear. I thought he was ill or something. Yeah better to take rest than get burnt out.
It's only been a couple of weeks since he last appeared on the discord - maybe he just went on holiday for a couple of weeks.
I wouldn't worry.

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