The 50 million using them all lose because they are locked into a monopolistic platform.
they can communicate to anyone with WhatsApp, SMS, iMessage.... This is a closed system, not a monopoly.
Nobody is locked into Signal. It's free to use, and free to leave.
That’s not how platform lock-in works.
You can export to markdown apparently. Who's locked in? It might be a pain to import that into any other app but I don't think any messaging app is going to make that easy. You still have all your data if you want to bail
> pain
That's how lock ins manifest themselves
Sure. But honestly, what are you hoping for, and does any app provide it? Honest question.
I'd prefer a JSON dump but something's better than nothing.