Post #1130089

2026-04-09 08:48 UTC

Well, when talking about server costs, Threema somehow has been running on a 5€ lifetime license and business customer subscribtions for over a decade. While briar and simplex are peer to peer and have nearly no ops costs. Sure, it can be made to be very expensive, but I'm arguing that doing so is a business/design decision. Servers can help improve the UX, but are expensive. Threema for example, only stores media on their servers temporarely, so they have way lower storage cost with a small tradeoff in userfriendlyness (of having to migratethe old media files you want to keep when you get a new phone). And so on. If your nonprofit only has 65k, don't hire multiple devs and provide nice-to-have features that lead to high ops expenses in servers and storage. It's called minimal viable prpduct for a reason.

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@voxel@feddit.uk 2026-04-09 12:23

Sorry, but you're inherently wrong. > Well, when talking about server costs, (...) We're not. > Threema somehow has been running on a 5€ lifetime license and business customer subscribtions for over a decade. Most users doesn't even donate 1€ when using free messengers. > If your nonprofit only has 65k, don't hire multiple devs and provide nice-to-have features that lead to high ops expenses in servers and storage. It's called minimal viable prpduct for a reason. They don't offer ANY "nice-to-have" features 😭 You can't even edit send messages, which I consider to be a basic reasonable feature (which is technically difficult to implement when having E2EE, etc. in mind)

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