After making an account a couple years ago I came back to Element a few days ago. Mostly, it's fine/good. It works as I expect text chat too, including the nice

After making an account a couple years ago I came back to Element a few days ago. Mostly, it's fine/good. It works as I expect text chat too, including the niceties we've come to expect by now. One thing that really stood out to me is that you can cross-sign your device certificates! That means your chat partners don't need to verify the signatures of all your device keys, but only one. Even though this is the only good option (in my opinion), the only other messenger that does this that I'm aware of is iMessage. I wish more people used it. Not just individually, but for their communities. There's a couple of good bridges which I intend to try, to bring my Signal/Telegram/... contacts all into one place, but you need not only the bridge, you also need to host your own homeserver and I haven't made the dive into all of that yet.