A communications tool must have censorship resistance (decentralization), anonymous signup without requiring a phone, and have an official way to obtain binaries signed by the community instead of by corpos that can be forced to insert backdoors.

Signal fails on every single one of these criteria and that is why we must stop recommending it to our friends and family who have a very limited tolerance for technology changes.

Choose decentralization.

Use matrix, or make something better.

@lrvick I would also add that it should not force clients to update, as Signal did. Having an up-to-date backdoor is even worse than having an outdated backdoor. :)