We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.
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What about feature-rich and with a nice UI?
Nothing in the XMPP RFCs says you can’t do that. Go ahead.
And yet no one does or has in a dozen years…