After 90 days we may not see Session on our app stores again

2026-04-11 00:56 UTC

Indeed from outside STF seem like a pretty strong foundation with a plan lied out and everything, but the reality says a different story… Session is on life support Session is asking for a community investment of 1million dollars, which i would say is alot considering the short period of time they have left, but not alot considering the size of operations that they have the STF has received approximately $65,000 in donations. This is enough to maintain critical Session infrastructure for the next 90 days. We are extremely grateful for the support Session has received from the community, but unfortunately this is not sufficient to retain full-time developers. As a result, all paid staff and developers will have their final working day on April 9, 2026. After this date, some team members will continue on a primarily volunteer basis to help maintain Session until July 8, 2026. If the fundraising is successful, the foundation would be able to continue active development of Session, including launching Session Pro and Session Protocol v2. If it is unsuccessful, the lack of funding would mean the foundation is not able to support Session in any capacity and will need to be shut down. As a result, Session would be removed from the app stores, and critical infrastructure like the Session file server, push notification server and seed nodes will go offline. Session plans to donate the rest of the money to the EFF in case this fundraising campaign turns out to be unsuccessful We also want to assure you that if the STF is unable to secure funding sufficient enough to meet its goals within the next 90 days, any donations that cannot be used in accordance with the STF’s constitution will be publicly donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Replies (8)

@Samsy@lemmy.ml 2026-04-11 08:03

I've always been skeptical about session. Their old name was Loki Foundation and they ordered a CageCode in the US.

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@jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 2026-04-11 12:22

I mean, there is also Signal

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@timbyte@lemmy.ca 2026-04-11 10:26

What happened to the 128 Ethereum Buterin donated to them back in November?

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@NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-13 10:51

All i was doing with it was transfer some things from a phone to another, nobody around me wanted to bother setting it up because they have iMessage. Sucks that its struggling, i would've loved to see it take off in the mainstream.

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@phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2026-04-11 16:54

So is there a true open source chat program that requires no account (so full anonymity) and has good encryption for privacy?

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@warmaster@lemmy.world 2026-04-11 02:58

I don't get why they need 2 senior executives and developers that charge 12,500 USD per month. It's strange to say the least.

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@unitedwithme@lemmy.today 2026-04-11 03:19

Maybe Session was doomed from the get go with such high expenses!

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@gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 2026-04-11 03:57

what's the infrastructure tho? isnt it decentralized? i understand development costs if you want to have a paid team but maybe slow down development? i dont know, asking for a million bucks sounds like a bit too much

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