I feel like the metadata collection argument is overrated here. It's a nice promise, and it's not that I don't believe them, but at the end of the day it's just

I feel like the metadata collection argument is overrated here. It's a nice promise, and it's not that I don't believe them, but at the end of the day it's just that: a promise. We've got messengers with E2E crypto because we don't want to just take someone's word that messages won't be read/intercepted, so the same logic should be applied to metadata: Either the protocol guarantees that metadata cannot be collected, or we should assume that it's being done. Signal being open source is still a very good argument in favour of it. It's also great that they're careful about not including features that could make it easy to shoot yourself in the foot (online backups). We can do without the whole "just trust them" dance.