The article about the blog post adds nothing.
Adds negative value by introducing confusion
“If you want to use signal it will cost you”
“You will personally be assessed a fee of $50 million on November 17, 2024.”
Do you accept discount coupons as payment?
Those are IOUs. I’d just as good as money.
We take Visa, Mastercarp, a meow it can express, this cover, Babel, …
Only in the form of Khols Kash and expired BB&B coupons.
@[email protected] could you swap the article and title with the better source?
Lemmy lets you edit titles after the fact. You can leave an explanation for the swap in the post body, and leave the original link there too if you want
That headline is just dumb.
To put it bluntly, as a nonprofit we don’t have investors or profit-minded board members knocking during hard times, urging us to “sacrifice a little privacy” in the name of hitting growth and monetary targets.
Good, I’ve been a regular donor for almost a year now.
I donated, and planned to continue yearly, but then they added a cryptocurrency in a very obvious pump and dump scam — MobileCoin; brand new, untested, for-profit startup owned, VC funded, in which the Signal CEO was an adviser and potential investor, with all “coins” privately pre-sold to VC’s and other investors.
I haven’t recommended Signal since, and refuse to donate until that shit is removed.
IMO Signal should only be seen as temporary until a stronger competitor is built. Being centralised and US based is a deal breaker, long term. The permanent communication service, that humanity should ultimately rely on, must be completely decentralised and capable of transacting via a client-based P2P mesh network, that is independent of commercial internet infrastructure… e.g. it can continue operating phone to phone, router to router, etc, using wifi/bluetooth if the internet is cut, whether by government action or natural disaster.
Nothing is black and white or pure. The list of features of a large-scale system like this includes its popularity. Signal excels at that compared to many alternatives and personally I think that’s worth a few transgressions. I too dream of a P2P system but I can’t see how underfunding Signal would help reach that goal. If anything having one popular open source non-profit platform could make it easier to get P2P. For example by pushing the popular platform to implement it.
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I upped my monthly sub.
wtf is this click bait
n a recent blog post, the Signal Foundation, responsible for managing Signal, detailed the operating costs for the first time, disclosing approximately $40 million for the current year, with projections reaching $50 million by 2025.
Using =/= Operating
if they stop operating it, we won’t be using it anymore.
it is likely bad phrasing, instead of intentional click bait.
If they open sourced all the server code, we could be helping them to operate it potentially, but they want to control the infrastructure, so I guess we’ll all be using xmpp soon.
so I guess we’ll all be using xmpp soon
of course… jabber is here for 25 years, but it will take over the world any minute now!
Are you saying that jabber is the ipv6 of messenger world?
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two sides of the same coin, just a badly phrased sentence
Gamblers HATE this one not-side-of-the-coin-they-flipped!
Yeahokbuddy
Dumb clickbait title smh
Shit, I can’t afford that
Plebs 😤
I don’t think I am going to be able to afford it.
I was just talking with a friend about why people trust signal so much and this article is a wonderful example of why
