[jxi]

That was my impression too, that this was more of a thread to slander Telegram than anything.

The main leg that Signal has to stand on is it uses standard encryption, but it has all kinds of shady components like it used to require sharing phone number to contact someone, and the cofounder Moxie launched some MOB crypto scam which went to 0 and he has now quit the project too.

[jsheard]

As I recall they went out of their way to hide that they were working on that shitcoin integration as well, Signals open source releases went dark for a year or so without explanation and then it turned out to be because they didn't want people to know about MobileCoin. Compromising the transparency of the project to obfuscate the development of a feature that they surely knew would be unpopular isn't a good look.