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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] 27 points 11 months ago (31 children)

If you are curious, you should give XMPP a shot, it's equivalent to Signal in terms of encryption, but anyone can host their own. Signal is ideologically opposed to anyone but themselves being in control of your account, and because of that I don't want to trust them.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (20 children)

That's great except barely anyone I know uses Signal, much less XMPP

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

And now here I am, nostalgic for the good old days of having one chat app that could connect you to everyone over XMPP/jabber.

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

Please, don't recommend pidgin, it's a security hellhole, and a pretty terrible XMPP client at that. If you want something with a similar vibe, check-out https://dino.im/ or https://gajim.org/ if you are more on the "power-user" side of things :)

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