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Running Signal will soon cost $50M a year (www.wired.com)

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[–] comfydecal 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So they allow a fork and we can use our own servers?

[–] n0x0n@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Exactly what I was thinking… They made an effort to not let others operate Signal servers. Now they say that infrastructure costs USD 14M. They could save some of the 14M by allowing people to use their own signal servers.