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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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[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The difference is that there's enough unused capacity on your personal device to handle all the traffic any typical user needs to handle in a day many times over, for simple messaging. Likely, that load is so little it won't even affect your battery life.

[–] fer0n@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t you still need a server in between to temporarily store the messages if the other person isn’t available?