Thanks. Yeah, I realized yesterday how dependent on Signal I was. I love Signal, but the fact that I didn’t have a private alternative option to message my friends and family while it was down is annoying. Of course, I could have used WhatsApp or god forbid Tlg*am, but that could encourage the contacts I converted to Signal to text me there, and I don’t want that.
Having to convince people close to me to download a 2nd E2EE app as backup is just not practical. This incident incentivizes me even more to try OpenBubbles, given the number of people I know who use iPhone.