What about Sessions? Doesn’t require a phone number as well and allows to create a private key to reset or change device.

Thanks. I like Signal—just wish they could figure out the usernames thing. Thanks for the other recommendations!

I encourage you to checkout https://simplex.chat as well TSB has a group chat you can join. Simplex doesn’t even have usernames, frictionless onboarding experience. Has cool features like incognito mode which gives you a new nym for every group you join when it’s turned on, and allows you to ru...

Thoughts on Keet?

I second Matrix, nheko is cool (it's open source and available through lots of linux package managers)