Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution
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Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution
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Re: Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution
#2I use Signal on a daily basis and have started donating. It’s definitely worth the $5/month
Re: Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution
#3I use Signal on a daily basis and have started donating. It’s definitely worth the $5/month
Same, it's a small sum, but it should probably cover it for the group chat that I'm in using signal.
Re: Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution
#4I also started donating €10/month. I figured that I pay a lot more for other services that I use far less often and provide me far less value, so why not pay for this. Also got me to think about this topic a bit more and write this blog post: https://canolcer.com/post/pay-for-internet-stuff/
Re: Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution
#5I'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.
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#6I'd do this in a heartbeat if they would get rid of MobileCoin first.
Re: Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution
#7I was waiting a long time for the possibility of easily paying for signal. This reminded me that I should also start to pay for my FOSS password manager. Both are easily worth a few bucks a month and I couldn't live without them.
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#8My biggest worry is donationg == ties you to the messaging platform, granted that your telecom/isp and most likely operating system on phone knows you have it installed via the play/app stores is more indicative of something sinister.
then they link this paper - https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1416.pdf which, on one level is great - they're open about the account credential scheme they wish to do.
On the other level, it's a level of complexity.
Yes, "nothing to fear, nothing to hide" and it's on your phone daily - and eh.
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In...
Then with this in app payment - the only supported crypto is mobilecoin. https://www.mobilecoin.com/
Granted, I don't know much about it, and I do understand the on-ramp for bitcoin/monero/eth/ltc is not as easy and probably as much tracable.
So, after all this banter, it just comes down to being anonymous is a bit hard indeed. :)
Not against paying, not against supporting signal, it's just it is a tricky problem all around.
Re: Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution
#9I'd do this in a heartbeat if they would get rid of MobileCoin first.
That’s partly why I donate. If they get direct funds they’re hopefully less likely to turn to these scammy cryptocoins to keep the lights on
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#10WhatsApp used to cost 99 cents per year https://www.siliconvalley.com/2016/01/18/whatsapp-drops-99-c... I can't remember ever paying.