On: Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive

[growse]

Signal is so far from being a monopoly that runs "all the world's communications" that these comparisons are essentially meaningless.

There's plenty of diversity in the messaging space. Decide your values, choose your compromises, pick your platform. Simple.

[BlueTemplar → growse]

Some people avoid platforms out of principle. Look up «protocols, not platforms» if you have never heard of it.