Where did I accuse them of selling data right now? I’m simply deducing that they will have to cover the insane costs of their inefficient infrastructure through either becoming a paid app or collecting data to sell.

And my point is that since their costs are so high they will either have to become a paid app or start collecting data to sell. Or become more efficient but you’d think if they knew how they’d already done that.

I think the main red flag is that they are spending so much money. In 2023 they had 55m monthly active users and they spent $35m. The casual WhatsApp user that might switch to Signal is definitely not gonna pay for this so either Signal fans have to donate more or Signal has to start finding other monetization which if we look at other companies means selling private data.

(Also, half their spending is on hosting and they are not self hosting so a donation to Signal is basically a donation to Amazon and Google.)

Stremio

If you want decentralized private messaging see https://delta.chat/

Yeah the spec is at https://webxdc.org/ and it is implemented by Delta Chat and a couple XMPP clients.

I don’t use Matrix so I’m not sure.

simple to use

• share a webxdc zip file in your chat
• ???
• profit

Not sure how to make that simpler

big accounts won’t move over, nor will their followers.

This post is about private messaging, not social media.

They are apps that use a messenger as backend, so basically your conversation with someone else has all the state of the webxdc. In Delta Chat that would be the encrypted email thread.

To use a webxdc share it in any of the mentioned messaging apps.

Companies selling digital goods still need to do taxes so they need to know where they are selling their product.

Your bank […] wouldn’t be able to sell that information.

My bank is not allowed to sell my data by law.

a permissionless and fully decentralized version of the Domain Name System. Lacking central servers and control means it can’t suffer outages like DNS does.

Oh nice no more regular outages like checks notes visa that one time 7 years ago for 40 minutes

Anonymous online payment is cool and all right up until you fill out your address so they can bring whatever you paid for to your house.

Name one (1) legitimate use case that is not better served in another way

something that literally did not exist 24 hours previously.

And still doesn’t exist. It’s not a tangible thing.

Finally, humane child slaughter

What do you base that on? A cow can’t consent to this.

You don’t need a credit card for most things in Europe so it’s not as pressing. Even if a company leaked my bank account details, no one can charge it by default.

I also highly recommended using a temporary email for signing up for stuff whenever possible.

This is the worst security advice I have ever heard. Now someone doesn’t even need to get your password, just your email and they can just use the temporary email provider to reset your password?