Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cryptocurrency

If even Signal is compromised, I'm debating just going back to WhatsApp for convenience and assuming that every message I send and every contact I have is fully public information that can be used by advertisers and governments to profile me.

Hmm, any reservations about Matrix ?

Questionable UX in the flagship/reference Element client, and it's laggy/slow no matter where your homeserver is hosted. After so many years, it's still a curiosity and for-hackers-only experience that's pretty much just like IRC but with lots of lag. I'm about ready to to give up on it.

I still love the idea of it and I hope it actually gets good/usable one day. Until then, I can recommend it only if you want to be an early adopter, but not if you want a good experience.

> pretty much just like IRC

The media capabilities are nothing like IRC.

In fact I moved to Element because Conversations had trouble with media.

That's fair. I guess maybe it's different when you have a group of people who actively use it.

It's certainly not the IRC/Discord/Slack replacement that I was hoping it'd be, where lots of "randoms" can join and a community develops.

The UX is still going to be unacceptable for most non-technical people, so I definitely can't convince my friends to switch from Discord, even for our private group.

This is probably more about them being used to it ?

What is preventing "randoms" from joining ?

What are those "unacceptable UX issues" ?

BTW, if you really care about it you could insist like I generally do that it's either you or Discord/Slack.