SaraMG 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 18
I love a good mansplain smackdown.
Show threadSaraMG 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 18
The thread: https://bsky.app/profile/meredithmeredith.bsky.social/post/3lrsry6wjis2m
Meredith Whittaker (@meredithmeredith.bsky.social)

...he says to Signal's president

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Show threadIkeJun 18

@saramg Geez.

If he was even half as smart as he was confident, he'd not only have realized whom he was talking to, but that Signal doesnt have a business model - or at least not in the sense that the other services he compared it to, do.

That is to say, Signal is funded by charity, and does not have a profit motive (so yeah, like donate if you use it and you can).

Show threadBohwaZJun 18
@ike
Signal did embrace the cryptomoney fad (and mobile coin is vc funded), and they do rely on popularity for financing (and they do need a lot of money to pay their Amazon google and Azure bills), so it's not that unlikely either that at some point they might follow that trend...
Show threadSoso

@bohwaz

On the other hand they participated of the development of a cryptocurrency that focused on being private **and** usable by everyday people. In some countries WhatsApp has payements. Private money transfer is something I would welcome (though mobilecoin is a failure and should have been removed a while ago).

Recent commits suggests there will be be a paid subscription for online backups. Seems fair to me.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/7ee1b1386b6a6d5bf9ff90d6b6e20ec466692b7a/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml#L5335

Signal-Android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml at 7ee1b1386b6a6d5bf9ff90d6b6e20ec466692b7a · signalapp/Signal-Android

A private messenger for Android. Contribute to signalapp/Signal-Android development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show threadtemporalthoughtJun 18
@sgued @bohwaz huh. i might actually consider that