Comment by rcxdude
1 month ago
The issue being there's not really a credible better option. Matrix is the next best, because they do avoid the tie-in to phone numbers and such, but their cryptographic design is not so great (or rather, makes more tradeoffs for usability and decentralisation), and it's a lot buggier and harder to use.
Full time matrix user and all my family and businesses use Matrix too. It works just fine, and with self hosting, I control the metadata on the servers I host for my orgs.
It actually is the least bad option available, and decentralization is always worth it even if development is slower and more complex as a consequence.