Case in point

Western people overwhelmingly think animal abuse is wrong yet 90+ percent pays for it through their food choices

That website was the fastest loading website I’ve ever visited.

There is actual estrogen in milk from other mammals

Where did I accuse them of selling data right now? I’m simply noting the risk that they will have to cover the insane costs of their inefficient infrastructure through either becoming a paid app or collecting data to sell.

And my point is that since their costs are so high they will either have to become a paid app or start collecting data to sell. Or become more efficient but you’d think if they knew how they’d already done that.

I think the main red flag is that they are spending so much money. In 2023 they had 55m monthly active users and they spent $35m. The casual WhatsApp user that might switch to Signal is definitely not gonna pay for this so either Signal fans have to donate more or Signal has to start finding other monetization which if we look at other companies means selling private data.

(Also, half their spending is on hosting and they are not self hosting so a donation to Signal is basically a donation to Amazon and Google.)

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Stremio

Because Signal is not decentralized nor anonymous

During onboarding of the app you only choose a name and get a random email address

30 million dollars https://element.io/blog/element-raises-30m-as-matrix-explodes/

You can argue that element is not matrix but you’re fooling yourself. Others even have to look at how element implements stuff instead of following the matrix spec

It’s a 0click so you have to have vpn running the entire time on any device that you install signal on

How is it different? In my experience it’s easier as they’ve already heard of email.

Ah so they are just capturing users currently and will have to make return on investment later? That’s a no from me.

You can choose any chatmail server just like when you sign up for lemmy you can choose which instance you’re gonna have your account on. And you can also run your own instance and allow people to sign up on there.

Thank you

You need a phone number to sign up which requires identification in most countries.

Also anyone who knows your username can ping where you are at any time: https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e8cdef6117

Delta.chat already exists

The protocol doesn’t really matter when you send encrypted messages over it like Delta Chat. Signal is not private nor decentralized and SimpleX doesn’t have encrypted group chats last time I tried