Yea it is a money grab by the devs. I was a very early session user (the devs were based in Melbourne, AU). They’ve basically forced node runners to stake their shitcoin, after already forcing node runners to pay a hefty fee in their PoW shitcoin, they claimed was necessary for “Sybil resistance” lmao. The concept has been sort of cool, but it has definitely been run through a shitcoiner lens.
Session created its own cryptocurrency. Glad I moved the Damus Translations group chat to Signal.
https://docs.getsession.org/session-token-sesh
Discussion
Is that the mobilecoin in signal
At least in Signal, it’s optional for p2p payments. In Session, it’s baked into the protocol. Orders of magnitude worse.
I've never had issues with simplex but got signal anyway both from zapstore.
Quite customizable in signal, turn off stories, nobody see my number and more
Also, if you’re on Android, you can just use Molly, which is a strictly better hardened fork of Signal and is interoperable with Signal. Molly removes MobileCoin.
There is also Signal FOSS, which I used to use. But I feel Molly, which I now use, is better. https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/
This was a helpful thread. I find molly.im to be a great resource for juggling different identifiers.
Sometimes I think I’ll go back to android. On my just iPhone right now, feels like I’m missing out