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Session is shutting down in 90 days if STF fails to reach its funding goals. (getsession.org)
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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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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it has centralized people who manage the decentralized nodes

so it's not decentralized then. if one centralized group has to be around to control things or the whole network goes down, that's not decentralized. that's literally the exact opposite of the definition of the word decentralized.

[–] voxel@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sorry, you very likely misunderstood me. The nodes are operated by other entities mostly independently (if we exclude the software), the Tor Project and in this case the Session foundation manage the index, get to decide which nodes to in-/exclude, etc.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 day ago

so it works exactly like bluesky. would you say bluesky is decentralized?