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Session is shutting down in 90 days if STF fails to reach its funding goals. (getsession.org)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by TacticalToothbrush@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You recognize one word in there and because you associate it with cryptocurrency you dismiss the entire thing.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

To be fair, it's a consistent red flag.

Blockchain is theoretically interesting. Very interesting, in certain niches. But 9 times out of 10, "blockchain-based" is code for "enshittified" or "a pyramid scheme scam from the start." And in the cases where its implementation is altruistic, it's still questionably sustainable or creates considerable overhead.

[–] canthangmightstain@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah.

But also, goddamn, are we not allowed to discuss projects with it with interest because a bunch of other assholes talked about it too much a few years back? (btw I fully expect to be having this exact conversation about genAI in about a decade)

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Of course it can be discussed…

I’m really into (open weights) genAI myself, have been for years, but at the same time I’m under no illusion the space is clean. The vast majority of services are scams, many open source AI projects are autogenerated slop from someone with AI psychosis (if not outright Tech Bro scams), and that’s not even touching on what Big Tech is pushing.

What I’m asserting is that a fat slab of skepticism is healthy in this kind of space. Be an enthusiast, not a believer. I know much less about blockchain, so perhaps I was a little zealous in judgement, but something about this project just raised a lot of red flags in my head like scam-adjacent AI projects do.

Another thing is that the blockchain scams haven’t gone away, and in ten years they probably will still stubbornly persist. GenAI is going to be the same.