People often bring up that you can set up a persistent relay to give you message history on your mobile device, which is accurate in the same way that you don’t

People often bring up that you can set up a persistent relay to give you message history on your mobile device, which is accurate in the same way that you don’t need Dropbox because you can just rsync a folder with your server. Technically true, but not going to get mass adoption against more convenient alternatives.