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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
is there any way they can reduce that cost?

>>bilal4+S1
Yeah, decouple Signal user identity from the phone number.

>>java-m+s2
Phone numbers are the easiest login for people, especially in a world where not everyone has an email address.

I know this will invite comments about usernames. I would like usernames a lot too.

>>j45+Va
If only it was possible for a service to support both!

>>lxgr+uk
I know, too bad that possibility was only possible in the past and not with todays technology.

The knowledge of how to do this has forever been lost. Hopefully archaeologists can reconstruct it one day.