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		hotnfresh on Nov 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive The small ISP/phone/cable company I worked for in high school had a data center. Maybe 20 racks. It was pretty damn reliable (old-school phone infra techs knew how to make shit stay “online”). I guarantee it wasn’t above the single-digit millions to build, inflation adjusted.

frakkingcylons on Nov 16, 2023 [–]

That example of your small telecom company isn't really relevant here, is it? Signal needs to work well for people around the world.

hotnfresh on Nov 16, 2023 | [–]

You can serve tens to hundreds of millions of messaging clients with data centers (plural) that don’t cost billions, even collectively, to build.

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