Signal seems to have lost the plot, after everything that went down -- the exodus, sudden interest etc etc, right when they prioritised that crypto thing above everything else and actually released it. In my circle across 4 continents only one person knew about that damn crypto. Heard of it. That niche. But then maybe Signal is supposed to be “that niche”.

I don’t know how they spin it (that is if at all they bother), or anyone else tries to explain it, it just doesn't make sense. It simply does not. I’d say it is worse or weirder than Firefox’s Pocket moment, but somehow on the same lines. I uninstalled Signal when that feature was released. I still install it now and then for an hour or so just to spin it, but earlier, whatever those few friends were on it, I used to try to use it. Now I don’t. Now for me Singal is just a useless relic.

Maybe it still works for Snowden and people who are at risk and I hope it keeps working for them. But if they are the only target audience then Signal is already irrelevant and they CAN BE replaced by that small target audience and them “walking” from UK or anywhere else for that matter really doesn’t matter.