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Session is shutting down in 90 days if STF fails to reach its funding goals. (getsession.org)
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We had hoped this day would never come, but Session has now entered its final 90 days of operation. If we are unable to reach our funding goal within this period, the Session Technology Foundation (STF) will be forced to shut down.

To date, the STF has received approximately $65,000 in donations. This is enough to maintain critical Session infrastructure for the next 90 days. We are extremely grateful for the support Session has received from the community, but unfortunately this is not sufficient to retain full-time developers. As a result, all paid staff and developers will have their final working day on April 9, 2026. After this date, some team members will continue on a primarily volunteer basis to help maintain Session until July 8, 2026.

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[–] voxel@feddit.uk 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, but you're inherently wrong.

Well, when talking about server costs, (...)

We're not.

Threema somehow has been running on a 5€ lifetime license and business customer subscribtions for over a decade.

Most users doesn't even donate 1€ when using free messengers.

If your nonprofit only has 65k, don't hire multiple devs and provide nice-to-have features that lead to high ops expenses in servers and storage. It's called minimal viable prpduct for a reason.

They don't offer ANY "nice-to-have" features 😭 You can't even edit send messages, which I consider to be a basic reasonable feature (which is technically difficult to implement when having E2EE, etc. in mind)

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 1 points 2 days ago

We’re not.

Huh? You linked me an article where server cost is the lions share of signal operation.