"look! the #signalapp income and salaries report for 2024 dropped!" #startpocketwatching #opentechnologyfund #usgovernmentsponsored
2026-03-09 02:12 UTC
Replies (24)
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@mistermodal@lemmy.ml 2026-03-09 02:18
addendum (to ensure someone gets hopping mad):
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@glitzer_gadze@feddit.org 2026-03-09 05:40
Unbearable: This was the last time i donated to signal. Next time i’ll donate to some small foss-projects.
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@albsen@beehaw.org 2026-03-09 05:43
is the argument they shouldn’t be paid money for their work? or maybe signal shouldn’t be hiring at competitive salaries for highly skilled labor?
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@raicon@lemmy.world 2026-03-09 05:58
What a scam… Hey guys I help orphans on a non profit, I’m a very good person. BTW I get paid 1M a year
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@lemming@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-09 06:52
What would be the downside if all companies were non-profit? At first sight, it sounds like a great idea.
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@schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-03-09 06:58
How does this compare to salaries for comparable positions at comparable for-profit companies? It’s kinda the point of donations that they can afford to hire people whose labor costs that much.
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@Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-09 07:11
Isn’t 1M per year upper middle class in america now?
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@Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 2026-03-09 07:19
Ah another hitpiece on Signal huh? They must be doing a lot right.
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@piyuv@lemmy.world 2026-03-09 08:09
“President of Signal getting paid less than a principal engineer” must be the take here. The same argument applies to Wikipedia: it’s a blessing these people accept working for <1M. They could easily get a job for triple the salary elsewhere but choose to forfeit it for principles.
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@glitching@lemmy.ml 2026-03-09 08:42
not my circus, not my monkeys but them positions… as mr. cici famously quipped, that’s alot of buffers you really need a VP of eng and then a director of eng and further liaisons until you reach an actual engineer for a shop that has one product? again, what do I care, spend it in good health
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@onlinepersona@programming.dev 2026-03-09 10:05
Just hire from the EU. It’s cheaper and they are as competent. A lot more money will be left to hire more staff. I’ve already moved my signal donation to matrix. The US is a money sink.
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@phase@lemmy.8th.world 2026-03-09 11:26
And now let’s focus on the only player who is a bit transparent instead of asking how are the others…
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@Sims@lemmy.ml 2026-03-09 12:34
US and the West are ‘managed’ by elite psychopaths that don’t give a shit about ordinary peoples ‘privacy’ or similar fancy tools for the wage-slaves. They have used these tools to try and break through specific nations/groups information defenses. ANYTHING sponsored by the US Oligarchy is either a part of local US control, or an attempt at reaching more people with rich-man propaganda in nations that defend themselves against US lies and color-revolutions…
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@Ghostie@lemmy.zip 2026-03-09 13:06
Guess adb never worked for a non-profit before.
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@RykardNixon@lemmy.zip 2026-03-09 14:46
I don’t know the intricacies of signal as a company or if they support any bad actors or whatnot, but I do hate to see flack for non-profit leaders and employees getting paid competitive salaries. Like if people are actually worth that much in the economy, why not try to stack the team so they’re incentivized to do well? Especially in the shit pot that is America. I would be curious to see the spread of overhead between salaries and fundraising, outreach, etc to actually get their product out there. Because if those are balanced in favor toward actually running the business, marketing it well, and fundraising, I’d say these people more than deserve these salaries.
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@mistermodal@lemmy.ml 2026-03-09 15:19
LMAO @ everyone who would have denied this was true groveling at the feet of the US government’s spectacularly abd inexplicably generous Open Technology Fund after devoting 3000 comments to bashing what remains of Firefox for [checks notes] making the UI better so the community doesn’t need to spend their time making sidebars and vertical tabs… You guys are worms. Today I get to be the rock. 🥴
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@Chulk@lemmy.ml 2026-03-09 17:28
I’m really trying hard to see the point that’s being made. Is it just the “high” salaries, or is there some other implication? The OP seems to be insinuating that Signal is a honeypot or something. I am going to need a lot more proof than, “hey, these guys work at a non-profit and they aren’t underpaid!” Given that most tech jobs offer stock options in addition to normal salary, it would make sense that base salary should be higher at a non-profit (where stock options don’t exist). Their salary structure also seems much flatter than other non-profits that I saw within the propublica link. What am I missing here?
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@shaggyb@lemmy.world 2026-03-10 00:59
If we’re going to continue doing capitalism, we need to celebrate when people who are responsible for quality products are paid comfortably but not so much that their pay disrupts other peoples’ status. 700k very much qualifies in today’s world. Stop being crabs in a bucket.
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@Sherad@lemmygrad.ml 2026-03-10 02:22
I barely use social media at all besides lemmy and the level of smarmy belligerence you’ve used throughout this thread makes me wanna download signal on general principle. Maybe take a day off mang.
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@libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 2026-03-10 03:00
Sallaries should act as a motivator for better leadership, so these wages, at least in norwegian context, seems to be too high, too corrupting.
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@electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2026-03-10 04:13
We need to find a way to fund critical FLOSS. No, not like that!
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@manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 2026-03-10 12:14
Tbf they are probably renting in california lol, their ‘pwese donate we need it’ always felt about as legitimate as 'hello from jimmy at wikipedia, we’re about to shut down the website, everyone please send $1 to the wikipedia guy, 432 evergreen tereace’
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@titanicx@lemmy.zip 2026-03-10 14:04
This is normal for “nonprofit” companies. The former head of Mozilla was paid 6.1 million in 2024.
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@pineapple@lemmy.ml 2026-03-10 21:26
What is going on with all of these people saying CEO’s or other employees deserve to live comfortably? The average salary in the US is like $64,000 the median is more like $38,000. What kind of person could possibly do the work of 10 or almost 20 (depending on weather you prefer median or average) regular people? If people should be payed based off how much work they do this is not a reasonable amount.