I know its new, so am I to lemmy, but I was curious if there is any plans to release Sync Ultra outside of the Play Store.
The features sound awesome and want to support lemmy but not everyone has Google Play/iOS.
An option like threema has to buy a license key and download the .apk would be ideal and I’d be all aboard!
In app purchases without Google Play is a pain. I understand why the paid versions are Google Play only. It sucks, but FOSS Android doesn’t have a good model for paid apps that doesn’t immediately lead to mass piracy.
In my opinion it’d be ethical to crack the software with revanced as long as you keep paying for your subscription (or if you buy lifetime), that’d be my solution. That’s illegal (and, if you’re not paying, unethical) though, requires some reverse engineering skills, and may require some trickery to keep the cloud features working.
Yeah, makes sense. Even if there was an option to buy the lifetime and download I would. But its a valid point it’d be too easy for people to share it then.
Thats why I think a licensing method would be best, like Threema has. You can download the app but can’t use it without a license key. Even still, it would be a lot of work.
Just disappointed I can’t support it, but its also my decision to not have the play store 🤷