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They have spent countless hours and some chunk of money to add features that the common user doesn't even use (e.g stories which since it's launch, even Signal themselves does not use it to update users of development 🤦)

Many of my contacts already left #Signal ! 🤕😮‍💨

Yes I have recurring donation to them. Yes, I'm trying to keep calm, but damn it, this is ridiculous that Signal is still this much behind the market. Stability, quality, features, design, using phone number,... . Come on!

Via bridge, yes, but first one should expose their accounts to bridges (already adding one security risk), and then have to have the bridges running on a server (time, maintenance), and on top of that matrix itself is not designed to be something like Signal or Whatsapp (voice messages, disappearing messages, gifs).

Not to mention that Matrix is not fully E2EE unlike the common misconception (e.g the reactions are fully plain text).

Well about the time maintenance there is #beeper
https://www.beeper.com/

Regarding the sec risk, I get it but in case you need full encryption is better to use pgp and email? Plus, in case you run your own server then you could onboard everybody you care to it. Getting people out of closed source apps is always a win.

Beeper — All your chats in one app. Yes, really.

A single app to chat on iMessage, WhatsApp, and 13 other chat networks. You can search, snooze, or archive messages. And with a unified inbox, you’ll never miss a message again.

^{www.beeper.com}

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@bioinformatician_next_door
Matrix is designed to replace work environment communications. Something to replace Slack, not WhatsApp.

About encryption, we have many other ways other than pgp with much lower barrier to entry (e.g @delta or @Jami ) but none of them are still as attractive to general public. Jami practically is a ticking time bomb as all my conversations were wiped one day (happened twice)

I still think our best bet is Signal if they don't mess around with logo on shopping bags

@Jami
Let's hope for that, because wiping out the whole chat contents out of the blue with no way to get them back is very destructive to the trustworthiness image of a messaging app. In my case, the damage is done and it's not likely that I will ever use this GTK-based app ever again, but I hope Jami prosper when these bugs are properly squished. (Jami was one of the few GTK apps that I allowed myself to have on my computer. Now, happily I have one less.)

@bioinformatician_next_door @delta