> That blog post is 8 years old and predates things like mastodon What in this blog post that's 8 years old has become obsolete in the meantime? > Nothing ha

> That blog post is 8 years old and predates things like mastodon What in this blog post that's 8 years old has become obsolete in the meantime? > Nothing has changed in these intervening 8 years? Signal got better, and got bigger user base in a couple of waves, with most notably the WhatsApp terms of service fiasco. Is that what you meant? Btw, people are still free to clone/fork the client, the protocol, and run their own servers. But compute ain't free, and you can read about that here: https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/ https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/