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.
@tuskun I was a big fan of XMPP, but it is worlds behind matrix in terms of UX, feature parity with proprietary alternatives, mobile battery efficiencies, and end to end encryption support.
Also the open source community sets up their shops in either Matrix or Discord these days, and Discord is a closed source arm of surveillance capitalism that is a clear choice trying to ward off any interest by people that care about security or privacy at all.
Matrix is the only viable popular option.
Lance R. Vick
Tuskun