A mass exodus from Whatsapp created a great opportunity to change a whole landscape of communication tools, but seems it is already missed though. Instead of switching to wonderful self-hosted (rocket.chat, element) or even p2p serverless (briar etc) alternatives, millions of ex Whatsapp users stuck with yet another centralized USA-based messenger - Signal. Sad.
That’s not entirely true. Telegram reported 25 million new users in the past few weeks, they’ve crossed over 500 million this month. It’s just not happening in North America because of the insular nature of the empire.
it is adding up to the point and makes things even worse :)