Do you seriously believe that donations can cover 1 billion of users on Signal? I don’t. Only federation is a sustainable answer (unless maybe you convince governments to fund it).
>Do you seriously believe that donations can cover 1 billion of users on Signal?
Yes.
>I don't.
Okay, any particular reason? The storage and processing costs are small, you're basically just paying for enough hosting to route the traffic, plus a dozen or so developers.
>Only federation is a sustainable answer (unless maybe you convince governments to fund it).
The US government does fund it, through several channels (most notable probably being the Open Technology Fund), as did Brian Acton for at least $50 million.
