[JohnBerea]

Shouldn't we prefer Matrix over Signal, since it's federated and doesn't require a phone number / phone to sign up.

[dbrgn]

Federation is no panacea either, it's also a privacy tradeoff, since the communication metadata is distributed across multiple servers operated by different people (unless you only communicate with people on the same homeserver that hosts your own account).

[ffpip]

It's just something about Matrix. I don't know what it is. I've never opened the app after logging in.

It has a good UX which is rare for open source apps. It seems to be based around a decent community. But I don't know why I don't use it.

[anoncake]

Network effects?

[screamingninja]

We should, but it is much harder to get my family and friends to use Matrix.