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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] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's possible to implement XMPP with E2E encryption, there are at least 2 ways to do it.

But of course it only works if both users use a client and server that support it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Worth mentioning that most modern clients support omemo at this stage.