I hope not. Signal accounts require a phone number and an Android or iOS primary device or you can’t use the service.

There are already good, decentralized options that don’t require a phone at all. The time-tested XMPP+OMEMO has the characteristics I need while having the hardware requirements of a toaster compared to other options.

Yeah suuure... They have problems with transfering backups from one platfor to another(you can't officially transfer history from say android to desktop/ios) and this issue is from at least 2015...

I think he means it's not an issue even if Mastodon does remain niche, we're quite happy here how it is, Fosstodon went invite only recently because it felt like the server was becoming too generalised