100%. If something needs a company to keep its servers alive, then you are trusting that company not to fail, sell out, get pressured, or change its mind. Signal does a lot right, especially making encryption the default. But it still takes some trust on its centrally maintained servers to use it ...

Delta Chat has merit, but dismissing Signal entirely ignores its infrastructure advantage. I just read about Blackstone selling $7.8B in Virginia data centers—Signal’s future may hinge on who controls the physical layer, not just the app layer. https://theboard.world/articles/blackstone-data-...