> The only tangible evolution of signal in the past year has been new cat and dog stickers that no one asked for. This is not true. Signal has been adding some

> The only tangible evolution of signal in the past year has been new cat and dog stickers that no one asked for. This is not true. Signal has been adding some very novel and bleeding edge privacy enhancements, such as sealed sender (https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/ https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/) and private groups (i.e. encrypted group state, https://signal.org/blog/signal-private-group-system/ https://signal.org/blog/signal-private-group-system/). That said, it's also untrue that federated services are stuck in time. See Matrix (https://matrix.org/ https://matrix.org/).