The last thing I want is another centralized and monolithic platform that requires a phone number, exposes phone numbers to everyone, and takes weird decisions

The last thing I want is another centralized and monolithic platform that requires a phone number, exposes phone numbers to everyone, and takes weird decisions on non-disclosure (be it source code of parts of the platform or the financial information as a non-profit) to be the one everyone promotes and uses. Based on the priorities Signal follows, which do not match mine,I don’t see value in this. The protocol may be good, but the platform is not.