@zeh I think you and I are pretty much in agreement about Signal's weaknesses. But for the vast majority of people, the choice is not "Signal or #Element", it's "Signal or SMS/Whatsapp". And the reason is that Signal is the only thing that they are going to be able to easily learn, use, and understand.

Give them Status or Element and it's going to get tried out for 10 minutes and then ignored or deleted, by the vast majority of people. Either that or they will stumble into plaintext.

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@jgoerzen well, if they can't be bothered to invest more than 10 minutes, they are choosing this by themselves. hard problems don't have easy, comfortable solutions.

signal is big tech, they have more money than they could count, are more or less closed source (you don't know what the.server runs, 3rd party clients are verboten) and behave like all knowing assholes.

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