Comment by parl_match

Signal has its problems, some of them sever. It's also buying "us" much needed time to build out federated and self-hosted chat platforms.

I truly believe they are altruistic, although it is unrealistic to expect that to last forever.

By the way, some of the claims you made about their "bad actions" are actually false. And Matrix is still incredibly annoying to work with for "normies" and only recently got first-class E2EE and retention policy, both things needed for a secure chat experience. And btw, those things aren't deeply supported in the ecosystem, and also it doesn't have client feature flag alerting (to allow good intentioned clients to de-facto report they don't support certain security features).

I do think Matrix (or something like it) is the future, but it's certainly not the present.