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>>mikece+(OP)
Seriously consider setting up a recurring donation if you prefer Signal. They have delivered consistently over the years. I set the $20/month back when they introduced the option.

I'm curious what the breakdown of donations is. I only have 1 contact with a $10/month and 1 with a $5/month badge. Of course there could be others not displaying the badge. Signal really needs 500,000 people giving $20/month and plus the rich guys giving some millions on top of that to be in a safe financial position.

Maybe something that could be done to encourage donations is have the client estimate how much raw infra costs your usage created and display in the donation screen.

>>Canada+kb
I fail to understand the point of supporting an organization that is completely against self-sovereignty like Signal is. Why would I want to pay someone to develop something that traps me into their platform and does not offer a way out?

>>rglull+Vu
Just don't use it, don't generate cost for them, don't be trapped by them. Everyone wins.

>>illiac+bZ
The 50 million using them all lose because they are locked into a monopolistic platform.

>>rglull+F31
Nobody is locked into Signal. It's free to use, and free to leave.

>>bravoe+kU1
That’s not how platform lock-in works.

>>saagar+o72
You can export to markdown apparently. Who's locked in? It might be a pain to import that into any other app but I don't think any messaging app is going to make that easy. You still have all your data if you want to bail

>>8n4vid+Vk2
> pain

That's how lock ins manifest themselves