• ViciousTurducken@lemmy.one
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    4 months ago

    Them being nonprofit has nothing to do with the pursuit of marketshare. Plenty of nonprofits want to maximize marketshare. Them being nonprofit means they are mission-driven.

    And what is that mission?

    Per the Signal Foundation’s website:

    Protect free expression and enable secure global communication through open source privacy technology.

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      4 months ago

      Them being nonprofit has nothing to do with the pursuit of marketshare.

      Um, of course it does? LOL

      Them being nonprofit means they are mission-driven.

      And what is that mission?

      Let’s talk about what the opposite of their mission is: Mainly operating as a source of data collection and revenue for a corporate surveillance and advertising agency.

      Do they want more users? Sure. Are they going to compromise on their core principles out of convenience for their users? Abso-fuckin-lutely not.

      There’s also the opposite to consider: that users would decide to use WhatsApp instead of Signal because they can, which then puts you in the uncomfortable position I find myself in often where I have to tell people I’m not accepting their messages from insecure platforms.