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Wdym "boring", what do you want a messenger app to do? It does what it's there for and it does it well.

1password should just open source its apps. IMHO, security and infrastructure software has no business being closed source.

Yeah.

Personally, I care about the phone number requirement not because I don't want to reveal it to Signal servers, but because it limits access to Signal for people in countries that block their SMS service - registration messages just don't arrive

This is important context. Signal needs to make phone numbers optional...

Not much point in using SSDs in a NAS if it's there just for holding your files

Use HDDs for linear read/write (files) and SSDs for IOPS (databases)

Cute

Firefox's been killing it recently

Make phone numbers optional and add a setting to allow/forbid accounts with no phone number to message you. I bet phone numbers have zero effect on the level of spam.

YARRRRRR!!!!!

Yeah, afaik, it only goes through TURN servers. The thing with direct Wifi or Bluetooth is that you almost never need it. Most of the time you will be messaging people on different networks. If you want more pure mesh options, check out Jami.