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>>mikece+(OP)
> Storage: $1.3 million dollars per year.

> Servers: $2.9 million dollars per year.

> Registration Fees: $6 million dollars per year.

> Total Bandwidth: $2.8 million dollars per year.

> Additional Services: $700,000 dollars per year.

Signal pays more for delivering verification SMS during sign-up, than for all other infrastructure (except traffic) combined. Wow, that sounds excessive.

>>Duneda+Z
I did my part to help reduce costs by switching to the decentralized alternative, Session.[0]

Bonus: Session does not demand users' phone number. Also no bundled cryptocurrency.[1]

[0] https://getsession.org/

[1] https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/signal.html

>>RunSet+L5
I think simpleX[0] is a better choice at this point with all the recent issues around oxen: not coupled to any crypto, no user ids, can host your own servers if need be, etc

[0] https://simplex.chat/