The makers of Twitterrific just launched a new iPhone app for social and web feeds. Tapestry brings together Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and more.

This isn’t my app, it just seems super cool as a way to pull together your own social media and news.

    • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      2 hours ago

      Software use to cost this much and much more in the 90s, and often did less (not working with a much of networked api calls, not integrating with a bunch of other platforms, etc) and wasn’t frequently updated.

      It’s 25-30 years later.

      People have lost touch with what paid software costs.

    • tkw8@lemm.eeEnglish
      355·
      3 hours ago

      $80 for a lifetime subscription is reasonable for a well developed app without venture capital subsiding the cost.

      Plexpass lifetime is $120.

      • Badland9085@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 hour ago

        $60 can buy you a lifetime license for the Affinity Designer 2, which is a fantastic alternative to Adobe’s Illustrator, which some people can’t live without. AFAIK, Serif isn’t backed by a venture capitalist as well. So, are you still happy paying $20 more for a social media app?

        Like, look, I get that we should support devs for what they do, especially if they don’t take venture capitalist money to sell their products for cheap to gain market share. But this seems really overpriced. What are you getting with an $80 app for social media?

        • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 hours ago

          yep, migrated to emby a couple months ago. although I did use plex for long enough to get value out of the lifetime plex pass.

    • stevo887@lemmings.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      I’ve been using Openvibe which is a similar app and haven’t seen one add and doesn’t have a subscription model. I understand development cost money but I agree with you.

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Openvibe is backed by Automatic so zero chance it doesn’t become shit. But you can just switch when it does, I suppose.