Post by @nigel

@aboutsignal why is it 30% more expensive when paying with EUR than USD? Is it because Europeans are more privacy sensitive, so it's more likely you can extort this amount from them?

This also makes the claim of spam prevention implausible: Spammers will just change their locale to be in the US to pay less.

@aboutsignal
It's funny though how things go in circles: Originally, Signal was a paid app, but nobody wanted to pay, so they made the app free and used public funding to grow a significant user base. Now that they have this large amount of users, they can move to be paid again, because users are forced to use their walled garden just like they're forced to use WhatsApp, Telegram or Discord (depending on location and communities).

Use decentralized systems like #XMPP or #Matrix instead.

@pixelschubsi

While I agree that XMPP and/or Matrix is a great idea, I also think Signal is great.

We have gotten very used to, in the last 20 or so years, that "everything must be free". And that is also one of the reasons we have shit platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and others; where the users and their data, is actually the price.

When we did "Shareware" in the 80s and 90s, there were similar problems.

Just my two cents.

@aboutsignal

@joho @pixelschubsi @aboutsignal

A monster differance with Sigal and XMPP that people in the Fediverse SHOULD like is that XMPP is decentrized...hosted by 1,000's of independent servers.

I just dont understand why that is lost on folks in the fediverse....