Hello Torrone, I don’t come to say “you see I was right”, so I’d rather say to you: now, I hope you understand my concerns regarding Signal. I still today have concerns about the metadata stored in their servers. Like Tor, Signal is surrounded by personalities and organizations that, without accusing, I have no proof, nevertheless require a deep audit (technically but also financially).
While I like the idea of decentralized discussion, I really struggle to convince somebody to use XMPP because I feel the following :
- technically, it is not as easy as Signal (ideally, you have to setup a server, or explain that they have to chose a server, etc.)
- people might not want to use it because they don’t trust you (as a server admin, do you have access to the discussions ?)
- people might not want to use it because they don’t trust an external server they don’t know.
I think too that Session is one of the best concept for privacy, while I don’t use it. There is also Jami (formerly Ring), but the battery drain and ergonomic issues (this was in the past) convinced me to not continue with it.
Sorry for the off-topic too !