So is this the moron that greenlit signal "stories"? Signal seems like a radioactive honeypot that doesn't offer anymore security than iMessage, but possibly less because at least the latter can be used with only an email.
Desperately looking for an out now that I've recommended this to friends and then they go and drop the sms and start slotting in useless features. I figured the open source structure would lend itself to preventing enshittification, but I guess the real driver of that is the profit-driven company that sits atop. A real shame, it was such a functional app for so long, one of the few times in my life I could really say I had everything in one place