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I upvoted because the phone number requirement is the n°1 problem with Signal.
But to be clear, Signal does meet F-Droid's policy (albeit with a "centralized service" antifeature flag). The only reason Signal is not distributed on F-Droid is because Signal threatened legal action if it ever was (LibreSignal scandal).
Also, i appreciate that Matrix (Element is just a client) is a federated protocol. Unfortunately, it consumes a lot of resources server-side (like A LOT of RAM and disk storage), and the default client Element is nearly unusable with high-latency links (eg. over Tor). I personally recommend getting into XMPP... there is no default client because XMPP is an ecosystem not a government-backed startup and some of them really suck (see joinjabber.org for the better clients) but at least the client and server don't eat all your resources (a "big" XMPP server for hundreds of users uses <500MB RAM, a similar matrix server uses 5-20GB RAM).
XMPP+OMEMO or OTR is a great alternative, lots of people use it in the DNM realm.
Yup Jabber/XMPP has some interesting properties, although the ecosystem is far from the potential it could achieve with more full-time dedicated efforts (and/or more funding to employ people for that). What's DNM though?
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