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I'm somewhat cautious of Signal. Given what the US government is, I don't trust any entity based in thr US.
By this standard you should probably not trust any entity at all because all governments are evil and their secret police are after revolutionary troublemakers. I agree that Signal being centralized is a huge problem, but i personally believe the bigger problem is that it requires a unique identifier (the phone number).
We all use centralized services sometimes, for example to sign up on a forum. But when we do so over Tor and with a nickname (pseudonym) that's a reasonable security practice.