Session is shutting down in 90 days if STF fails to reach its funding goals.
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/58115684
Session is shutting down in 90 days if STF fails to reach its funding goals. - tchncs
> We had hoped this day would never come, but Session has now entered its final
90 days of operation. If we are unable to reach our funding goal within this
period, the Session Technology Foundation (STF) will be forced to shut down. > >
To date, the STF has received approximately $65,000 in donations. This is enough
to maintain critical Session infrastructure for the next 90 days. We are
extremely grateful for the support Session has received from the community, but
unfortunately this is not sufficient to retain full-time developers. As a
result, all paid staff and developers will have their final working day on April
9, 2026. After this date, some team members will continue on a primarily
volunteer basis to help maintain Session until July 8, 2026. Note: I can not
find any separate blog or mastodon post with this same text. This is a link
directly to project’s donate page. There is no new snapshot on archive.org
[http://archive.org] yet.
Sounds like bad planning. There are like 3 other e2ee messengers that are open source and have enough funding to operate for years without doing appeal-to-emotion dona-… extortion campaigns
Look at the amount that Signal spends.
signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/
Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal Protocol—our end-to-end encryption technology—has become the de facto standard for private commu...
Their top 6 earners all get more than half a million per year and all of their infrastructure is hosted on Amazon and Google servers so it’s not really “signal” that’s expensive.
Infrastructure can’t be run on thin air, Signal isn’t peer to peer, so infrastructure is essential.
Oh yea not denying that they need servers. But do they really need to rent them from Google and Amazon instead of hosting their own? Seems like pretty poor use of donations.
They talk about it in their blog post which I have linked, go read it.
I’m not who you are talking to originally, but as lot of that is just kinda nonsense. They say they can’t have their own servers in DCs around the world cause it would cost too much…. But it wouldn’t, that’s just incorrect. They’re clearly spending 1.3 million on s3 data and the short file lifetime is killing them. If they just bought drive capacity and hosted on VPSes around the world they’d likely have a much much smaller bill. Yeah it sounds scary, but they’re already doing scary stuff.
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