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Imho the doubts about signal are legitimate but way too overblown. Signal has sealed sender, so nobody could (easily) know who sent the message, a VERY strong cryptographic protocol and encrypted profile information. Sure, it's centralized and it collects your phone number when you sign up, but your messages are safe, they are not stored in the cloud and even if they were collected, all the information would be useless thanks to the signal protocol. I understand that the doubts are in good faith but they dismiss every effort made to bring a solid, private messaging app like signal to the general public. You can't self-host, third-party clients are not officially supported and the service it's centralized, but that's a matter of freedom, not privacy. If it makes you feel better you can use matrix, but the problem you're trying to solve doesn't exist