I happen to be somewhat disappointed by Signal recently (crypto payments bundled in app, shady open-source practices…) but to this day I cannot find any viable alternative as a full-featured messaging application (and don’t tell me about Matrix ecosystem). So when these financial contributions features were added I decided to subscribe for 5€ per month. If you value Signal services I encourage you to do the same!

There is a answer to a question, which is half of the pie. Does Apple or google get their cut? No.

Ok. Good.

What about stripe? I never used stripe, because their business model is to keep a big pile of the other half of the cake - I think.