We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.

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    For the current distribution I quote from the linked source :

    Current Infrastructure Costs (as of November 2023): Approximately $14 million dollars per year.

    • Storage: $1.3 million dollars per year.
    • Servers: $2.9 million dollars per year.
    • Registration Fees: $6 million dollars per year.
    • Total Bandwidth: $2.8 million dollars per year.
    • Additional Services: $700,000 dollars per year.
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      1 year ago

      Yes, but I was talking about the salary part, which is separate from the costs you mentioned.

      It’s 19 million just for people.

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        Yhea no worries, I was just trying to get all the budgets together. I agree it seems quite an high budget