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Yes indeed.
What?
While Signal and the structure of how signal is managed has flaws.
It is not a coorporation and therefore has no need to enshitify
The Signal Foundation is not a corporation.
But Signal Messenger, LLC is indeed a corporation, and it operates officially as a subsidiary of the Signal Foundation. The Signal protocol, as well as the official app, is developed by the LLC and not by the foundation.
In any event, there is plenty of room for a future enshittification of Signal. Is it less likely than many other entities? That's probably a fair statement. Is it impossible? Not in the least.
It's a non-profit.
OpenAI was a non-profit. Then they built something that could earn a profit, stopped being a non-profit, and immediately began to enshittify.
The Susan G. Komen foundation is a non-profit that enshittified with a "pinkwashing" scandal.
"Corporation" is not the predictive factor. "Centralized" is. Any centralized system is subject to the shitty whims of the operators.
it's a "non profit organisation", just like OpenAI once was