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What’s stopping you from using wave

Who owns Wave? How will it fund itself in the future? Does it need to? Any plans to monetize? A big part of trust is trusting the source of the app and it's dev(s), little to be found about that expect the name of a sole developer atm.

Wave is currently owned and developed by @mesimhadri.bsky.social. Wave is built on XMTP (@xmtp.org), an open messaging protocol. XMTP has mechanisms for funding apps, so founders, sponsors, or anyone interested can support Wave in the future. As of now, Wave has no plans to monetize.

Thanks for your answer! 🙏 Friendly suggestion to add this info in some more detail to an about/FAQ page on the Wave website, it’s usually the first thing I look for. And perhaps an explainer on how this app differs from other messaging solutions (germ, discord, signal)?

Sure, and thank you for the suggestion Germ relies on centralized servers and currently lacks features like groups and photo sharing Signal is good, but it depends on phone numbers & centralized servers. Access to the app can be controlled Discord is big but it collects everything about the user