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 $1/user/yr. Seems pretty achievable, but then again people really don’t like paying for things once they’re used to getting it for free.
I haven’t used session, but I hope for the health of the secure messaging community they can hit their goal.
1$/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.
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.