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Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (signal.org)
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We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.

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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Would be interesting to see how this compares to XMPP or Matrix. Obviously the development costs something for each of those, but the hosting costs are spread out across each of those hosting an instance.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yup, that's a big reason why centralized protocols aren't sustainable. XMPP is 25 years old (which is older than almost anything else on the contemporary internet) and thriving. Unfortunately, judging by the cycle of messengers coming and dying, and people still being eagerly part of that, this isn't something that people value very much.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Forgive the ignorance but does xmpp have the same features as signal, particularly around e2e encryption?

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