> need to do is pick one That is exactly the de-facto selling point of Signal. It does this and enough of other things better than the rest of the truly secure

> need to do is pick one That is exactly the de-facto selling point of Signal. It does this and enough of other things better than the rest of the truly secure messengers. (Still not as good as Whatsapp is at these network effects, obviously.) This is exactly why people insist on it. And exactly why if there was other messenger in it's place you would be asking the same thing.