# Become a Signal Sustainer

DevFeed: [Become a Signal Sustainer](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/become-a-signal-sustainer-1737.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://signal.org/blog/become-a-signal-sustainer/>)

Published: 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Signal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/signal-blog.md>)

Topics: [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [client](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/client.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/servers.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [badge](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/badge.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [investors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/investors.md>), [organization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organization.md>), [payment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/payment.md>), [payments](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/payments.md>), [privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/privacy.md>), [products](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/products.md>), [profile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/profile.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [subscriptions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/subscriptions.md>), [technology](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technology.md>)

## AI overview

Signal describes a nonprofit funding model supported by user contributions rather than advertising, data sales, investors, or shareholders. The article explains monthly subscriptions, one-time boosts, profile badges, privacy-preserving payment verification, and automatic cancellation when users stop using the app.

## Source excerpt

Signal has no data to sell, no advertisers to sell it to, and no shareholders to benefit from such a sale. We're building a different kind of tech - where your data stays in your hands - but we're also building a different kind of tech organization. One without investors, quarterly earnings calls, or share price considerations. While the model for conventional tech companies incentivizes them to build products for your data rather than for you, Signal's nonprofit structure is designed so that the only way value can accrue is in the experience of using the app; the only place it can accrue is in the hands of the people who use it. Read more...