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I completely agree that meeting in person and leaving the phone at home is by far the safest way to communicate. I was thinking more of using this sort of tech during large protests for example to coordinate them without relying on the internet.
I'd argue it's more secure because it takes more effort, like actually having to physically have equipment on the ground. If you have the same software security in both cases, this adds a hardware component to it. For mitm attacks, you actually have to compromise individual devices in the distributed mesh. This is a lot more difficult to do at scale than compromising centralized infrastructure run by companies that are working with you. If anything, I'd argue Signal is one thing you absolutely should not use for any sort of organizing because it's tied to your phone number. Even if the messages themselves are secure, it reveals the graph of people communicating.
And in terms of resilience, that is a factor of the number of people using the network, and the nodes connecting it. So, encouraging active use now, will make it a more powerful tool later on.