It’s a not for profit, so they don’t need to rake in dough, just need to keep functioning, which isn’t a ton of cash for a messaging service. Wikipedia does just fine with donations, and they serve far more people.
I donate every month, and I bet there’s enough that do to keep running like they are.
I love Signal, but at the end of the day they still operate a centralized service with all the drawbacks that entails. It only takes a change of leadership to kick of progressive enshitification, just look at what happened to WhatsApp. Being run by a non-profit should help, but the chance always exists with centralized control. Also their multi-device support is still not great, no official support for Android tablets for example. And idk why not, because Molly (Signal fork) recently added that without too much difficulty afaik.
Session looks really interesting imo, kinda like a decentralized and multi-device version of Signal.
Last time I used adguard, they seemed to want to get money from user donations. By having more users, more users would donate, and there would be a point where there would be enough.
Tho I’m not sure if they have reached such point or if they would reach it in the future.
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It’s a not for profit, so they don’t need to rake in dough, just need to keep functioning, which isn’t a ton of cash for a messaging service. Wikipedia does just fine with donations, and they serve far more people.
I donate every month, and I bet there’s enough that do to keep running like they are.
I love Signal, but at the end of the day they still operate a centralized service with all the drawbacks that entails. It only takes a change of leadership to kick of progressive enshitification, just look at what happened to WhatsApp. Being run by a non-profit should help, but the chance always exists with centralized control. Also their multi-device support is still not great, no official support for Android tablets for example. And idk why not, because Molly (Signal fork) recently added that without too much difficulty afaik.
Session looks really interesting imo, kinda like a decentralized and multi-device version of Signal.
Last time I used adguard, they seemed to want to get money from user donations. By having more users, more users would donate, and there would be a point where there would be enough.
Tho I’m not sure if they have reached such point or if they would reach it in the future.