I use Matrix because, among other reasons, it does not require you to be a cell service subscriber, which I am not. I asked my friends if they were seriously a

I use Matrix because, among other reasons, it does not require you to be a cell service subscriber, which I am not. I asked my friends if they were seriously asking me to sign a contract with Apple and Google and Meta etc against my personal beliefs about privacy rights in order to be friends with them. They respected it and installed matrix and many even use that now between each other because auditable end to end encryption sounds better than not. Social graphs can pull both ways, and ethics are on your side. Would you stop being friends with someone that went vegan? Stick up for the rights for -anyone- to be an integrated member of society without signing data sharing agreements with a cell carrier, apple, or google.