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Does Signal host its user's data?
Not sure why privacy-conscious people would be recommending it over something like Matrix. Unless they're paid off or stupid.
it does not. and the reason is, matrix clients and servers are fucking unstable, and spam is still an unsolved thing.
I've never experienced either of these issues.
I like matrix as well.