[johnchristopher]

There's a very vocal voice about how signal is bad and the other federated thing is better.

But signal has already accomplished its goal (easy crypto for everyone) while the other is undergoing soon a server transition, has released a new version of their android client that hasn't yet all of the features of the previous client, encrypted rooms can still receive unencrypted content and isn't e2e by default and when it is you need to cross verify every clients unless you can live with red messages about unknown sessions in the room, etc. And they have different goals anyway.

Now I am back to wiring the neighbourhood with cat 6 to set up our own Internet because 'hey isp authoritaranism'.

What dictatorship are we actually helping when using signal that has proven not to store any messages or files while the default usage and instalation of the federated one leave transferred files unencrypted on the server?

It's definitely a false sense of privacy.