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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by mintdaniel42@futurology.today to c/signal@lemmy.ml

We are getting Cloud Backups in the future! Currently, there are two tiers planned:

The free tier offers:

  • 30 days of media backup
  • ??? GB of storage

The paid ($3 / mo) tier offers:

  • media & text backup forever
  • 1TB of storage Both tiers' features and the pricing of the paid plan are still subject to change

What do you think about this?

Sources: SignalUpdateInfo

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[-] xela@lemmy.ml 18 points 9 months ago

From the website, thought this would be good to call out: "Signal Update Info is not affiliated with Signal and is not an official Signal website."

[-] testeronious@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

oh, that's very important to know

[-] mintdaniel42@futurology.today 2 points 9 months ago

Yes you are right but the website links github commits as sources

[-] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Can someone explain use case for me? I assume it's for folks who don't autodelete messages and want the encryption and non-spying but the same chat 'archive' of other apps like FB Messenger, WhatsApp, etc.?

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

Pretty much yea

I'd like to have this replace messenger/WhatsApp/etc. for as many people as possible

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Like if you drop your phone and it gets run over by a truck, you can buy a new phone and have all of your chat history still.

[-] NotJustForMe@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

Time to leave, then.

I'd have welcomed an interface to a cloud of my choice. But yet another cloud entity hosted somewhere outside of my reach? Meh.

[-] mintdaniel42@futurology.today 4 points 9 months ago

No i think you misunderstood. Local backups (as we have them now) will (most likely) stay.

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Your link is broken, here's the working link

https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html

EDIT: OP fixed it :)

[-] mintdaniel42@futurology.today 2 points 9 months ago

I'm sorry. You are right. Does it work now?

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

It does ๐Ÿ‘Œ

[-] mintdaniel42@futurology.today 0 points 9 months ago

They are exactly the same and I can open them both ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผ

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You link markdown is backward

[https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html](SignalUpdateInfo)

should be

[SignalUpdateInfo](https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html)
[-] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

It might be your app / front end rendering the link text correctly, while for others it doesn't work

Correct formatting: [Text](URL)

So you want: [signalupdateinfo](https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html)

[-] mintdaniel42@futurology.today 2 points 9 months ago

Yes it seems like Thunder for some reason does it that way

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

Yaaaay, that's the last big thing I was looking for

Wow 1TB is a lot of storage. I think my backups are ~1Gb so it might be nice to have some tiers in the middle for those on a budget. At the same time, a lot of those media files are gifs and memes ๐Ÿ˜„

[-] mintdaniel42@futurology.today 3 points 9 months ago

I think in your (and most other) case(s) the free tier would be just fine

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yea that's the hope, I might add in a donation if that's the case

[-] Cargon@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

I send a lot of voice and video messages to friends and family. I think it was about 10GB when I did a transfer to a new phone last year, so I'm glad there are larger storage options.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

I'm hovering at ~9GB at the moment. ๐Ÿฅฒ

[-] ardi60@reddthat.com 1 points 9 months ago

Good, this is a must feature for messaging app nowadays.

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