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Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (signal.org)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I’m assuming all this would do is distribute the cost, but otherwise be the same?

Exactly. I can locally process the 1-3 messages/day I send on my device rather than having billions of messages processed on a single server.

I can even host my own Matrix or XMPP encrypted server on a $100 machine consuming ~7W and host several hundred users easily.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

XMPP maybe. Matrix is a bloated protocol which costs a lot more to host.