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@zeh I think you and I are pretty much in agreement about Signal's weaknesses. But for the vast majority of people, the choice is not "Signal or #Element", it's "Signal or SMS/Whatsapp". And the reason is that Signal is the only thing that they are going to be able to easily learn, use, and understand.
Give them Status or Element and it's going to get tried out for 10 minutes and then ignored or deleted, by the vast majority of people. Either that or they will stumble into plaintext.
@zeh 2/ As I reflect on this, I'm going to make a bold and possibly wrong assertion: #Signal is the first and only system the world has seen that makes strong cryptography easy to adopt correctly for everyone.
I was using #PGP in the 90s, still use #GPG, and of course there's #TLS, but none of these are easy to get right.
Signal isn't perfect but it's better than the alternatives people are used to, and that right there is huge.