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Re: Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution

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post #112

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Didn't know leaking meta data was a requirement for most of the people ;-)

The most people don’t understand their own requirements. For example before Apple’s privacy features, Facebook (Meta) could try to guess the message contents with certain probablity based on other app usage. (Facebook trackers on different apps and cross-app tracking)

What is exactly what I am trying to say, since the comment up the chain states that e.g. interoperability isnt a requirement of most users

Re: Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution

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post #10

WhatsApp used to cost 99 cents per year https://www.siliconvalley.com/2016/01/18/whatsapp-drops-99-c... I can't remember ever paying.

Early adopters got life long free access... until eventually even the 99 cents was dropped.

Dropped because WhatsApp now can mine your metadata and make off like a robber at a convenience store.

Re: Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution

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post #98
post #72

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What do you mean 'not fully released'? It's here: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

Is that the version that is actually deployed to their servers, though?

Is that possible for Signal to prove in a meaningful way?

Re: Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution

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post #98
post #72

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What do you mean 'not fully released'? It's here: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

Is that the version that is actually deployed to their servers, though?

Why wouldn't it be?

Re: Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution

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post #5

I'd argue that $5/month is quite high. Not because Signal isn't useful, but because the actual incurred cost per user is much, much lower. Of course, not everyone is going to pay. But if Signal were to ask users to pay, say $10 per year , i'm sure there'd be a lot more payers.

It depends on who you are targeting. For users willing to donate at all, the difference between (say) $2 and $5 might not be that much. Asking for more might therefore actually maximize the return. All other users probably wouldn't donate regardless of whether it's $1 or less, so why bother considering them in your model. (edit) Offering an $1 option would just get you 0 of these users, and possibly lower the returns…

I consider it high because very few people I know are actually on it. But if it was like $10/year I would have already done it and forgot about it.

Re: Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution

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Please continue to contribute to Wikipedia. It's one place in the internet I can go and not be bombarded with ads.

>Please continue to contribute to Wikipedia

I disagree, but for a different reason: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais...

Re: Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution

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post #50

I'm happy to give my 5$/month, as I'm using Signal daily. When moving away from WhatsApp it seemed like the best option for me and my circle of friends. I can only hope that some of the money would be used to hire a developer to fix some of the issues I'm experiencing, some of which are quite annoying: - Signal killing the whole iPad and iPhone battery in a matter of hours while running in the background, on some day…

thats why i turned off background refresh option on iOS. Works well with notification instead.

Re: Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution

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post #6

I'd do this in a heartbeat if they would get rid of MobileCoin first.

I wish so bad that the signal crypto integration would have been done better. They could have implemented a wallet and generated revenue in the hundreds of millions like metamask does. Starting a new blockchain obviously has founder incentives which are great but it only makes sense when people feel like your contributing to the diversity of blockchains not simply copy pasting monero.

MobileCoin has a lot going for it over Monero. Lower fees (around 1¢) and instant.
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