1.7M MAU and a $1M goal for a year of funding is only $1/user/yr. Seems pretty achievable, but then again people really don’t like paying for things once they’re used to getting it for free.
I haven’t used session, but I hope for the health of the secure messaging community they can hit their goal.
The 1.7M MAU number seems highly suspect. Maybe it is just my bubble, but I have never even once met anyone online or offline that admitted to using Session.
And why donated to a doomed project like that, when there are plenty of better alternatives?
If people use it, it is clearly providing a value to them. Why shouldn’t the users try and sustain something providing value?
And even as a non-user, the more active developers and projects in this space the better - it’s never good to put all your eggs in one basket. Will I personally donate? Probably not, but I see no benefit in trashing the idea of users donating.
1.7M MAU and a $1M goal for a year of funding is only $1/user/yr. Seems pretty achievable, but then again people really don’t like paying for things once they’re used to getting it for free.
I haven’t used session, but I hope for the health of the secure messaging community they can hit their goal.
The 1.7M MAU number seems highly suspect. Maybe it is just my bubble, but I have never even once met anyone online or offline that admitted to using Session.
And why donated to a doomed project like that, when there are plenty of better alternatives?
If people use it, it is clearly providing a value to them. Why shouldn’t the users try and sustain something providing value?
And even as a non-user, the more active developers and projects in this space the better - it’s never good to put all your eggs in one basket. Will I personally donate? Probably not, but I see no benefit in trashing the idea of users donating.
1$/user/year is an INSANE amount. Compared to delta.chat which costs 0,001€/user/year.
I’m very suspicious of that number, I suspect that’s the cost of a server and does not include any labor costs for server maintenance or dev salaries.
Volunteer run programs are nice but also dev time is money.
I mean… Session doesn’t have any other expenses right now.
… Which is why they’re ending the project if they don’t get funding…