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Signal is too pedestrian. Without decentralization, your chat isn’t private enough as you don’t control the meta or the servers.
And what's just as important - not as resilient.
There are many ways to make things resilient. Centralizing isn’t one of them.
Yeah, they're kind of even doing the opposite with the control freak mindset, such as being hostile to third-party clients or even distribution outside of Play Store! (seriously, the apk download is hidden by a dark pattern)
Which is why it is important to continue calling them out. The casual privacy enthusiast just regurgitates an infographic or YouTuber. Can’t expect them to be experts, but we can tell them that there is a deeper rabbit hole.