Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal Protocol—our end-to-end encryption technology—has become the de facto standard for private commu...

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.

  • meteokr@community.adiquaints.moe
    12·
    1 year ago

    Would be interesting to see how this compares to XMPP or Matrix. Obviously the development costs something for each of those, but the hosting costs are spread out across each of those hosting an instance.

    • u_tamtam@programming.dev
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yup, that’s a big reason why centralized protocols aren’t sustainable. XMPP is 25 years old (which is older than almost anything else on the contemporary internet) and thriving. Unfortunately, judging by the cycle of messengers coming and dying, and people still being eagerly part of that, this isn’t something that people value very much.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nl
        5·
        1 year ago

        this isn’t something that people value very much.

        More likely something people don’t even know about since no one is out there spending billions of dollars singing the song of XMPP.

    • Starfarer@lemmy.today
      2·
      1 year ago

      Forgive the ignorance but does xmpp have the same features as signal, particularly around e2e encryption?

      • erwan@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s possible to implement XMPP with E2E encryption, there are at least 2 ways to do it.

        But of course it only works if both users use a client and server that support it.