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Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 year ago by celmit to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

How does Signal make money? How is it so well funded?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

One of the lesser known, possibly reformed(?), Facebook billionaires gave them a bunch of money several years ago, and they've been trying to bootstrap that into long term sustainability via donations from regular people.

Edit: See duplexsystem's comment below for a better summary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks!🙏

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