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Session is shutting down in 90 days if STF fails to reach its funding goals. (getsession.org)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by TacticalToothbrush@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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We had hoped this day would never come, but Session has now entered its final 90 days of operation. If we are unable to reach our funding goal within this period, the Session Technology Foundation (STF) will be forced to shut down.

To date, 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.

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, if they'd gone with a decentralized model, it'd be able to scale up without the extreme operating costs (Lemmy/piefed is a good example of that in practice).

Currently our best decentralized/federated instant messengers are XMPP and Deltachat, which cost peanuts to host.