[simias]

I'm not ascribing malice to their decisions, but I think they're really shooting themselves in the foot with the way they handle their PR.

Maybe I'm wrong but my theory is that it started with "end-to-end encryption means that you don't have to trust us" and it seems that many among the Signal team and fans took that to mean "we can behave as shadily as we want and not communicate well since it doesn't really matter anyway".

But there's more to trust than end-to-end encryption. I also need to trust that the project will keep improving and that I'll still want to use it three years from now. The fact that Signal is not federated and they keep such a strong hold on the project makes it even worse, I really have all my eggs in moxie's basket.

I used to actively tell people to use Signal, now I say nothing and these days I find myself using Telegram more and more even though protocol-wise Signal is clearly the superior option.