Which I think is great! However, I’ve been donating $5/month for years and they’re still trying to charge me $1.99/month. I feel like supporters should be exempt from the fee.

  • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
    26·
    8 个月前

    Donations are donations. You knowingly get nothing in return.
    No reason not to do both.

        • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
          6·
          8 个月前

          It’s got nothing to do with the banks. All the credit card processors (Visa, Mastercard, etc.) charge fees to retailers. Some times it’s a flat amount per charge, other times it’s a percentage.

          Realy though in this case that might not matter so much, as Google and Apple are in the middle, charging Signal 15-30%.

            • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
              4·
              8 个月前

              Yes. I just found out Google and Apple don’t take a cut of donations to non-profits. But since this is a subscription for an actual product instead of a donation, it would be subject to their 15-30%. That is most likely the reason they don’t just give backup services to donors.

            • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              3·
              8 个月前

              yes, that was the original point - it’s worse for Signal, if you’re trying to donate, it’s better to consolidate transactions

          • infeeeee@lemmy.zipEnglish
            3·
            8 个月前

            Here in all banks card payments are free, as it’s included in your monthly plan. But you have to pay for transfer and for cash withdrawal. Mine is just a small a local bank in a European country. But banking is very different here from the US (from your comment history I guess you are from America), e.g. credit cards are rare, everyone have debit cards, cheque payments are non-existent.

        • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
          2·
          8 个月前

          Yes 2 charges would be 2 fees. But I did forget that Google and Apple are in the middle charging their 15-30%. So that might not matter.

          • Unrelated@feddit.nlEnglish
            2·
            8 个月前

            Do Apple and Google not have policies in place that don’t take a charge on donations?

            • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
              3·
              8 个月前

              I don’t know…

              Seems they do. But that wouldn’t apply to the Backup subscription. That may be the reason they don’t just automatically give it to recouring donors.

  • bartleby1@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    7 个月前

    Woah… free backup of all your text messages? Was not expecting such a generous thing