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I was a user. They're not baseless accusations, they're statements of technical fact and a statement of ethical belief. I don't believe it's right to deny users

I was a user. They're not baseless accusations, they're statements of technical fact and a statement of ethical belief. I don't believe it's right to deny users (including non-business users like myself) a capability that costs peanuts to run as a strong-arming tactic to get them to pay. I know exactly what I'm critiquing and why. I'm not going to source-build and force a community of folks to source-build an APK to access an essential technical capability of a messaging app. Zulip is essentially rendered as useless in such a case. That is wrong and unethical.

tabbott 1y ago
Zulip's notifications service is free for community use, as well as business use up to 10 users. If you're not a business, why would you need to build a fork? Just spend 5 minutes filling out the brief community plan form and you're all set. I can't say that the mobile notifications model is perfect. I have my frustrations with it. One of them that might not be obvious is that various military/government installations on airgapped networks are all freeriding. Alternative options are (1) having no meaningful monetization of self-hosting or (2) moving away from being fully FOSS. What would you like to see us do?