I do that too, but it doesn't work outside of a close group of friends. For me, multi device support is not important since I have my phone with me all the tim

I do that too, but it doesn't work outside of a close group of friends. For me, multi device support is not important since I have my phone with me all the time, and if I'm on my laptop there's the web client. Apparently XMPP with Conversations + OMEMO provides secure multi device support, haven't tried it though and I'm not sure if I could get any of my non-tech friends to use it.