I've been beating this drum for years. The problem with signal and most other privacy ware is that they require you to effectively deanonymize yourself, typically by making you use a phone number to use their service. Knowing who someone is talking to is, in many circumstances, far worse than knowing what they're saying
> Knowing who someone is talking to is, in many circumstances, far worse than knowing what they're saying
How?
I go to court for knowing a drug dealer. That case goes nowhere.
I go to court for buying from a drug dealer. That's open and shut.
I'm not a CEO of a trillion dollar corporation or the president of anything. My privacy needs are far different from theirs.
It's why I'm so excited about Nostr, and apps built on top of it, like 0xchat: https://www.0xchat.com/