Signal famously doesn't allow third party clients. Molly currently flies under the radar but their official stance is: fuck off.
If #Conversations_im were to introduce ads tomorrow you just switch to a fork and move on with your life. With Signal you do what exactly?
@daniel Good point! With Signal Foundation I'm confident they'll never introduce ads because they're a nonprofit unlike #WhatsApp which got sold to Meta eventually. Still Signal service and app are single points of failure.
What we actually need is messaging infrastructure with the quality of Signal but in a federated manner.
I really liked Conversations but the Signal protocol seems to have won over #XMPP so far.