I can definitely respect your desire to build something that can support you and I wish you luck. It’s a cool concept and I really like the idea for it. I’m definitely not your target audience as I’m not interested in closed platforms after experiencing enough rug pulls, nor am I interested in privacy-focused applications that aren’t completely open source under a strong copyleft license with reproducible builds. I suspect that many in the privacy community feel the same way. However, if your tool makes it easy for Alice to send Bob (neither of whom have ever used your service) a 300 GB file and do video calling/screen sharing without hassle then I imagine you’ll have some users.
EDIT: I see in that reddit thread that you haven’t found being open source to be much of a draw. That makes sense to me. At this point, I don’t view being open source as a positive, I view it as basic table stakes. Being open source with a strong copyleft license and a DCO instead of a CLA to prevent relicensing approaches being featureful to me. It’s unfortunate how many projects use a CLA with copyright transfer. Signal fails in this regard, for example. It may be possible for Whisper to relicense future releases to something that is not truly free.
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