@Willow @teajaygrey it may be secure at the moment but it absolutely is sus and there’s no reason to have any preconceptions that the Signal service is developed and ran in any good faith or will remain that way in the coming months/years

consider:

• it is based in magastan, and relies on magastanian fashcloud providers (which they lie about being impossible to avoid)
• it’s woefully corporate in its presentation
• the explicitly privacy-hostile phone number requirement (which they make up bullshit excuses for)
• the explicitly hostile stance towards decentralization (which, again, they lie a lot to justify)
• dark patterns like the aforementioned

signal carries plenty of red flags, it might as well only be a matter of time before it blows up in its users’ faces