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Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive(signal.org)

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KapiteinPoffertje@lemmy.world
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I assume that is exactly for one of the reasons they mentioned in the article: increasing costs for sms

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witten@lemmy.world
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Wait. Signal was an SMS client. It wouldn’t cost them anything for a user to send an SMS message. IIRC, they nixed the SMS feature for security reasons, not cost.

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🤘🐺🤘@monero.town
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That’s what they told me when gave then feedback through their website.

There’s no free lunch and corporations aren’t the most trustworthy source of information though so maybe it was about cost.

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ninchuka@lemmy.one
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isnt signal a nonprofit? not a corporation

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PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world
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Yeah I think you are right. I too was really mad at Signal for ditching sms, and THEN having the audacity to ask for donations! This article shines a light on the reasons, wow.

Still, I would only donate if they kept sms in there. Not without sms because now it’s just one more isolated platform and no longer a one-stop solution at it used to be.

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ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works
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The sms cost is for account creation and verification on new devices, being an sms client didn’t cost anything aside from maintaining that portion of the app

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gulasch_hanuta@feddit.de
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A bit of transparency at the beginning would’ve helped…

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Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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One reason was worry that people accidentally send SMS when they mean to send a secure message

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