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Bay Area nonprofit Signal shows how bloated tech companies have become

submitted by rexree+(OP) on 2023-11-22 18:11:40 | 62 points 38 comments
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20. Aldipo+uF[view] [source] 2023-11-22 21:28:30
>>rexree+(OP)
Ah, that is why Signal still hasn't an app for Android _tablets_. https://community.signalusers.org/t/android-tablet-support/5...
32. jaunty+Wh1[view] [source] 2023-11-23 01:02:59
>>rexree+(OP)
The premise here is somewhat contrasting with what Signal just told us in the blog post, *Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive." https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/ >>38291427 (1108 points, 6 days ago, 915 comments).

Meredith & Joshua say Signal costs $14m a year in hosting costs. Storage at $1.3m/yr, servers $2.9m, registration fees $6m, bandwidth $2.8m, and additional servers $0.7m = $14m. They say their total costs are projected to be $50m/year, soon.

I wonder Signal compares to, say, Whats App: another volume-focused messaging system that at least used to be run very lean.

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