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Signal is too pedestrian. Without decentralization, your chat isn’t private enough as you don’t control the meta or the servers.
There are many ways to make things resilient. Centralizing isn’t one of them.
Which is why it is important to continue calling them out. The casual privacy enthusiast just regurgitates an infographic or YouTuber. Can’t expect them to be experts, but we can tell them that there is a deeper rabbit hole.